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Additive manufacturing of polymer bonded magnets is a recently developed technique, for single-unit production, and for structures that have been impossible to manufacture previously. Also new possibilities to create a specific stray field…

Multiply connected freeform surface features are widely encountered in industrial components, where toolpath generation often suffers from discontinuities, sharp turns, non-uniform scallop heights, and incomplete boundary coverage. This…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-27 Shen Changqing , Xu Bingzhou , Qi Bosong , Zhang Xiaojian , Yan Sijie , Ding Han

Design - especially of physical objects - can be understood as creative acts solving practical problems. In this paper we describe a biologically-inspired developmental model as the basis of a generative form-finding system. Using local…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-07-13 Jon McCormack , Camilo Cruz Gambardella

This paper introduces an algorithm to generate a 3D extruder path, combining classic planar and non-planar layers to enhance the surface quality and accuracy of complex 3D printed parts. Material extrusion 3D printing, due to its…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Shadman Tajwar Shahid

In the study presented in this paper, we analyzed the mechanical response of a glass fiber plain weave/polymer composite at the fabric millimetric mesoscale. The detail of the stress and strain fields in a fabric repeating unit cell was…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-05-03 Zakariya Boufaida , Julien Boisse , Stéphane André , Laurent Farge

Texture map production is an important part of 3D modeling and determines the rendering quality. Recently, diffusion-based methods have opened a new way for texture generation. However, restricted control flexibility and limited prompt…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Dongyu Yan , Leyi Wu , Jiantao Lin , Luozhou Wang , Tianshuo Xu , Zhifei Chen , Zhen Yang , Lie Xu , Shunsi Zhang , Yingcong Chen

We explore efficient optimization of toolpaths based on multiple criteria for large instances of 3D printing problems. We first show that the minimum turn cost 3D printing problem is NP-hard, even when the region is a simple polygon. We…

Graphics · Computer Science 2022-07-25 Prashant Gupta , Yiran Guo , Narasimha Boddeti , Bala Krishnamoorthy

Additive manufacturing, such as 3D printing, offers unparalleled opportunities for rapid prototyping of complex three-dimensional objects, but typically requires simultaneous building of solid supports to minimize deformation and ensure…

Applied Physics · Physics 2022-10-18 Sam Keller , Matthew Stein , Ognjen Ilic

We present a novel diffusion-based framework for synthesizing 2D vector fields from sparse, coherent inputs (i.e., streamlines) while maintaining physical plausibility. Our method employs a conditional denoising diffusion probabilistic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Nguyen K. Phan , Ricardo Morales , Sebastian D. Espriella , Guoning Chen

We propose a novel computational framework for optimizing the toolpath continuity in fabricating surface models on an extrusion-based 3D printer. Toolpath continuity has been a critical issue for extrusion-based fabrications that affects…

Graphics · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Fanchao Zhong , Yonglai Xu , Haisen Zhao , Lin Lu

Generating high-fidelity 3D geometries that satisfy specific parameter constraints has broad applications in design and engineering. However, current methods typically rely on large training datasets and struggle with controllability and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Ghadi Nehme , Yanxia Zhang , Dule Shu , Matt Klenk , Faez Ahmed

This paper provides an orientation angle optimization method for the design of fiber-reinforced composite materials using topology optimization. The orientation angle optimization is based on a topological derivative, which measures the…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Masaki Noda , Kei Matsushima , Takayuki Yamada

The possibility of producing polymer-bonded magnets with the aid of additive processes, such as 3D printing, opens up a multitude of new areas of application. Almost any structures and prototypes can be produced cost-effectively in small…

Fiber-Reinforced Polymer Composite (FRPC) parts are mostly made as laminates, shells, or surfaces wound with 2D fiber patterns even after the emergence of additive manufacturing. Making FRPC parts with embedded continuous fibers in 3D is…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-08-12 Vivek Khatua , B. Gurumoorthy , G. K. Ananthasuresh

3D print is a recently developed technique, for single-unit production, and for structures that have been impossible to build previously. The current work presents a method to 3D print polymer bonded isotropic hard magnets with a low-cost,…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-10-28 C. Huber , C. Abert , F. Bruckner , M. Groenefeld , O. Muthsam , S. Schuschnigg , K. Sirak , R. Thanhoffer , I. Teliban , R. Windl , and D. Suess

Foams are versatile by nature and ubiquitous in a wide range of applications, including padding, insulation, and acoustic dampening. Previous work established that foams 3D printed via Viscous Thread Printing (VTP) can in principle combine…

Existing diffusion-based text-to-3D generation methods primarily focus on producing visually realistic shapes and appearances, often neglecting the physical constraints necessary for downstream tasks. Generated models frequently fail to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Yunuo Chen , Tianyi Xie , Zeshun Zong , Xuan Li , Feng Gao , Yin Yang , Ying Nian Wu , Chenfanfu Jiang

This paper introduces a method to synthesize a 3D tensor field within a constrained geometric domain represented as a tetrahedral mesh. Whereas previous techniques optimize for isotropic fields, we focus on anisotropic tensor fields that…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-05-12 Haikuan Zhu , Hongbo Li , Hsueh-Ti Derek Liu , Wenping Wang , Jing Hua , Zichun Zhong

Bio-inspired composites are a great promise for mimicking the extraordinary and highly efficient properties of natural materials. Recent developments in voxel-by-voxel 3D printing have enabled extreme levels of control over the material…

Efficient optimization of topology and raster angle has shown unprecedented enhancements in the mechanical properties of 3D printed materials. Topology optimization helps reduce the waste of raw material in the fabrication of 3D printed…

Graphics · Computer Science 2022-06-08 Ahmed Moter , Mohamed Abdelhamid , Aleksander Czekanski