CNC part program for FUSE DEPOSITION MODELLING (FDM)

Making a program for tool path to be followed for part generation by FDM We have always been more inclined towards making different objects discretely to make ourselves feel distinguished. But some complex geometries cant be manufactured by using conventional methods, instead involves the use of various non-conventional techniques like SLA,SLS,FDM,LOM,3DP,BPM etc. As per the ease of accessibility to the machines, I intend of making a part program which would help us in modeling a part on FDM .This would involve generating the tool path individually for various slices which in turn combines to make a whole component. This would involve working on STL file. But to with ,STL is a file type generated during modeling of any component. Whenever any component is generated , at the particle level,it is made of very tiny triangular geometries. These triangular subparts cluster together to make a surface . And a STL file holds the information of such tiny triangular particles. STL can simply be assumed to be a matrix of n X 4 size where n is the number of triangles and 4 represent the column size in which first 3 represent the 3 coordinates of triangle respectively and the fourth one holds the position vector for the normal vector of that each triangular subpart.

METHODOLGY:
A) B) C) D) E) F) Generating a component using any of the known modeling softwares like catia Generating its STL file. Reading the STL file using MATLAB. Slicing the component into number of slices. Generating a tool path for each slice. Finally combining all the slices to make whole component.

Basic concept in FDM machining:

FDM machine: