3D Shaping System Decoration Data Segmentation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current 3D shaping systems face challenges in efficiently applying various decorations to shaped objects without increasing the burden on users, particularly in creating detailed textures and colors, and in maintaining uniform surface finishes across different angles of the object.
Innovation Solution
A shaping system that separates three-dimensional shape data from decoration data, allowing for the generation of decorated object data that includes texture and color specifications, enabling the application of multiple decoration types to shaped objects based on combined three-dimensional and decoration data, using a system comprising a three-dimensional data inputter, surface data processor, and shaping executor.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Manufacturing precision
If decoration data is integrated into three-dimensional data, then the shaped object can be appropriately shaped with desired texture and color, but the trouble of creating the three-dimensional data increases and the burden on the user increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the data structure by separating decoration data from basic three-dimensional shape data. The decorated shaped object data includes both components as distinct elements, allowing users to input only the basic shape while the system automatically generates appropriate decoration data, thereby reducing user burden while maintaining manufacturing precision for surface decorations.
2Adaptability or versatility
If multiple types of shaped objects with different decoration methods are created, then various decorations can be applied, but the data creation burden increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a universal data structure where a single decorated shaped object data format can represent multiple decoration types (texture, color, pattern, material). The system uses a unified approach with common data fields that can accommodate various decoration methods, allowing one data structure to serve multiple decoration purposes without increasing user burden.
3Ease of operation
If decoration data is processed separately from shape data, then the user burden is reduced and decoration changes are easy, but the integration of shape and decoration may become complex
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a decorated shaped object data structure that acts as an intermediary between basic three-dimensional data and decoration data. This intermediate data structure automatically integrates shape and decoration information through systematic data fields, reducing user burden while managing integration complexity through automated processing rather than manual coordination.
4Manufacturing precision
If uniform surface finish is achieved across all angles, then the appearance quality improves, but the processing complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies local quality by allowing different decoration parameters to be specified for different regions and angles of the shaped object. The decoration data structure includes position-dependent parameters that automatically adjust surface properties based on local orientation, achieving uniform appearance quality across all angles while managing processing complexity through region-based parameter specification.
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AI summary
A shaping system that shapes a stereoscopic shaped object, the shaping system including a control PC and a shaping device serving as a shaping executer, where the control PC includes a three-dimensional data inputter that accepts an input of three-dimensional data, which is data indicating at least a stereoscopic shape of the shaped object, and a surface data processor that generates decorated shaped object data, which is data indicating the shaped object on which decoration indicated by decoration data has been applied based on the decoration data which is data indicating decoration to be applied on at least a part of the surface of the shaped object and the three-dimensional data, and the shaping device executes a shaping operation of the shaped object based on the decorated shaped object data to shape the shaped object on which decoration indicated by the decoration data has been applied.