G-code conversion from 3D model data for 3D printers on Hadoop systems

Abstract

3D printing or additive manufacturing is a process of making three dimensional solid objects from a digital file. It is needed conversion process from 3D model data to G-code to print by 3D printer. 3D model data generally can be stored in STL file format, which is composed of lots of facet data. If the file contains much more facets, the conversion time will also increase. In this paper, we try to develop a software to converse in Hadoop to cope with the problem. Our main motivation is that the conversion from a facet does not affect the other sets of facets. Thus, our algorithm proceeds to step 4: preprocessing, mapping, shuffling, and reducing. Finally, performance evaluation was performed using the developed software.