Originally shared by Nicholas Seward
Nonplanar Slicing!
My student @Joseph_Zhang has been working hard on a generalized nonplanar slicer. I hope everyone else is as impressed as I am. (Eventually this can be layered with an algorithm to pick the slicing layer intelligently to increase printability.)
Very nice Joseph Zhang! Keep up the great work.
Cool to see this, and shows how much I have to learn!
Finally, amazing!
Awesome!
impressive. I hope we can access to this soon to test it ? I see already a few cases where it would be VERY usefull 
Congrats !
Is this academic work going to be open source?
This would be invaluable in top layer finishing. No more artifacts due to flat layers. There are still some limitations, but that would come with experimentation.
The nozzle is still flat on the end. Unless the nozzle articulates, you will have different artifacts on the top surface.
Whilst there are conspicuous issues this is definitely a step in the right direction. My experiments with reducing layer height have left me with unexpected problems to solve and this might help out. Keep it up!
@Wylie_Hilliard An articulating nozzle is the end goal for me. I plan on building a Sextupteron. As soon as I build one everyone will say, “that is neat but it is useless/overkill without special software”. Making the software and using it on a 3DOF printer seemed to be a good first step. It still remains to be seen how bad the artifacts will be. There are artifacts even if the layer is planar.
This is just fantastik ! Nonplanar slicing waaw !
Very cool, now the community has to build a nonplanar 3D printer!
when can we use this software?
