This invention discloses a method and
system for path planning in 3D surface printing. The method includes:
surface scanning, using a 3D
laser scanner to scan the
target surface;
point cloud data preprocessing, preprocessing and optimizing the original
point cloud data; model design, designing the model of the product to be printed and exporting it as
point cloud data as the base point
cloud data for registration;
surface mapping, registering the base point
cloud data of the model to be printed with the target point
cloud data of the scanned surface model, mapping the
planar model onto the surface; Z-axis
coordinate change calculation, calculating the change of the Z-axis coordinate with the surface height during printing on the surface; and path planning, performing path planning
processing on the point cloud data obtained after
surface mapping, sorting the coordinates according to priority based on the required path to obtain the coordinates of each point on the complete printing path. This invention can improve the accuracy and detail of 3D printing.