Pack Merger & Clever Support

[simmonsstummer 0]

Any chance to have this two new slicing algorithms in cura in the next future?

Pack Merger

http://hpcg.purdue.edu/bbenes/papers/VanekCGF14.pdf

Clever Support

http://hpcg.purdue.edu/bbenes/papers/Vanek14SGP.pdf

 

[Dim3nsioneer 557]

Thanks for the pdf links. At first sight these algorithms look quite promising. It would be nice to know what the license situation on them is.

 

[Daid 306]

Clever Support

http://hpcg.purdue.edu/bbenes/papers/Vanek14SGP.pdf

 

That's the mesh-mixer method.

We just got a new software engineer at Ultimaker (he simply known as Tim). And he actually knows about algorithms and stuff. So he is looking into this right now, to see if we could implement this method in Cura. Most likely months away from actual release. But, yes, support structures is finally something that is getting attention.

 

[Dim3nsioneer 557]

Great news. It seems the pink unicorn gets some afterburners... :cool:

 

[sbudelman 0]

Any news on this subject? I was thinking on write a plugin to take advantage of this idea when I found this post!

[Ram 0]

Any update on this, quite interested in such type of support structure. But don't know how to implement in slicer software's.