STL 2.0: A proposal for a universal multi-material Additive Manufacturing File format

20th Annual International Solid Freeform Fabrication Symposium, SFF 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 266-278

  Hiller, Jonathan D ^a   Lipson, Hod ^a  

^a School of Operations Research and Industrial Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3D PRINTERS; MANUFACTURE; MESH GENERATION; XML;

ADDITIVE FABRICATION; ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING; ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING PROCESS; DE FACTO STANDARD; FUNCTIONAL REPRESENTATION; GRADED MATERIALS; ON-LINE MATERIALS; TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT;

MATERIALS;

EID: 84870311400     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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