Volume-aware design of composite molds - Siggraph 2019
We propose a novel technique for the automatic design of molds to cast highly complex shapes. The technique generates composite, two-piece molds. Each mold piece is made up of a hard plastic shell and a flexible silicone part. Thanks to the thin, soft, and smartly shaped silicone part, which is kept in place by a hard plastic shell, we can cast objects of unprecedented complexity. An innovative algorithm based on a volumetric analysis defines the layout of the internal cuts in the silicone mold part. Our approach can robustly handle thin protruding features and intertwined topologies that have caused previous methods to fail. We compare our results with state of the art techniques, and we demonstrate the casting of shapes with extremely complex geometry.
Authors:
Thomas Alderighi, Università di Pisa and ISTI-CNR, Italy
Luigi Malomo, ISTI-CNR, Italy
Daniela Giorgi, ISTI-CNR, Italy
Bernd Bickel, IST, Austria
Paolo Cignoni, ISTI-CNR, Italy
Nico Pietroni, Univ. of Tech. Sidney, Australia and ISTI-CNR, Italy
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3306346.3322981
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