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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 20, 2020
Filed:
Jul. 25, 2017
Mimaki Engineering Co., Ltd., Nagano, JP;
Kenji Harayama, Nagano, JP;
MIMAKI ENGINEERING CO., LTD., Nagano, JP;
Abstract
A forming method for forming a three-dimensional object includes a generating step including, based on model data representing the object, generating cross-section data respectively representing cross-sections of the object that are different in position in a cross-section arrangement direction. An executing step includes discharging build materials respectively based on the cross-section data. When at least a portion of the object is to be colored: the cross-section data include colored region data respectively representing cross-sections of a colored region of the object that is to be colored based on a color of a surface of the object; the executing step includes forming the colored region using the build materials based on the colored region data; the model data represents the color of the surface of the object in a multi-level gradation; and each of the colored region data represents a color in a lower level of gradation.