摘要
Selectivelasermelting(SLM)isoneofthemostpopularadditivemanufacturing(AM)technologiesformetalparts.Slicingresult,especiallyforthedifferentdimensionalslicinggeometryanditstopology,playsanimportantrolebecauseofthethermodynamicbehaviorofmetalpowders.Togetcorrectgeometryandreliabletopology,aslicingstrategyforSLMisproposed.Theunavoidablenumericalerrorcausedbysamplingandgeometrictransformationissuppressedfirstly,accordingtoshiftingthez-coordinateofavertexwithasmallvaluesuchtheshiftedvertexisonaslicingplane.Theresultofvertex-shiftingmakesitpossibletoidentifydifferentgeometricfeaturessuchasskinsurfaces,overhangsurfaces,extremeedgesandvolumetricsolid.Second,fromgeometricprimitivesahierarchyofaxis-alignedboundingboxes(AABBs)isconstructedandusedtospeedupintersectionofslicingplanesagainstsetsoftriangles.Allintersectingsegmentsaregivendifferentsignstodepicttheirgeometricortopologicalinformation.Basedthedifferentsigns,thedifferentdimensionalgeometrythatiseventuallyrepresentedbysimpleandanticlockwiseorientedpolygons,areidentified.Finally,thepolygonsareclassifiedandnestedinamulti-treedatastructuresettoproducecorrecttopologicalrelations.Theresultofdigitalandphysicalexperimentsshowstheproposedslicingstrategyisfeasibleandrobust.
出版日期
2014年03月13日（中国期刊网平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）
