The Center for 3D Visualization Hardcopy (C3VH) was initiated in 1995 as a web-accessible facility to create 3D physical models. By making such prototyping hardware easy to access and the geometry files easy to check and correct, we have been able to drive the model-making process into the less traditional manufacturing area of scientific visualization. But, there have been requests for many copies of a single model. As “rapid” prototyping is actually quite slow and unsuitable for mass production, these requests have required us to enter the world of molding for mass production. As part of this, we have needed to quickly determine how feasible it is to mold a particular model. This paper shows an interactive OpenGL method that we developed for determining the optimal orientation for a model’s parting line. By using a novel OpenGL stencil buffer technique, the user can reorient the model on the screen, and see from the colors in the display how vertically convex it is in that orientation, and in what parts of the model it is not vertically convex.
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ASME 2007 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference
September 4–7, 2007
Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Conference Sponsors:
- Design Engineering Division and Computers and Information in Engineering Division
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0-7918-4803-5
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A 3D Graphical Method for Interactively Determining the Vertical Convexity of Designs to be Molded
Mike Bailey,
Mike Bailey
Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR
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Dru Clark,
Dru Clark
Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA
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John Rapp
John Rapp
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA
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Mike Bailey
Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR
Dru Clark
Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA
John Rapp
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA
Paper No:
DETC2007-35165, pp. 189-196; 8 pages
Published Online:
May 20, 2009
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Bailey, M, Clark, D, & Rapp, J. "A 3D Graphical Method for Interactively Determining the Vertical Convexity of Designs to be Molded." Proceedings of the ASME 2007 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference. Volume 2: 27th Computers and Information in Engineering Conference, Parts A and B. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. September 4–7, 2007. pp. 189-196. ASME. https://doi.org/10.1115/DETC2007-35165
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