SLA를 이용한 신속 시작작업에서 최적 성형방향의 결정

Stereolithography is a process used to rapidly produce polymer components directly from a computer-representation of the part. There are several considerations to be made for the efficient use of te process. Especially, the build-up orientation of part critically affect to the part accuracy, total build time and the volume of support structures. Te purpose of this study is to determine the optimal build-up part orientation for the SLA process with improving part accuracy, minimizing total build time, and the volume of supprot structures. The first factor is related to the area of surfaces which have staircase protrusions after solidification, the second factor is related to the total number of layers, and the third factor is related to the area of the surfaces which need to be supported with support structures. An algorithm is developed to calculate the staircase area with quantifying the process planning errors that the volume of materials is supposed to be removed or added to the part, and the optimal layer thickness for the SLA system whichcan hadle the variable layer thickness in different orientations achieved by rotating the given part to the specified finite directions. So the optimal part orientation is determined based on the user's selections of primary criterion and the optimal thickness of layers is calculated at any part orientations.