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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 29, 2017
Filed:
Sep. 05, 2013
Adobe Systems Incorporated, San Jose, CA (US);
Ondrej Stava, Cupertino, CA (US);
Adobe Systems Incorporated, San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
Methods and systems are disclosed for preserving thin components for three dimensional (3D) printing. An exemplary method generates a medial axis of a 3D shape and identifies components of the 3D shape that need to be preserved by applying a transform to the medial axis. The method creates an output model based at least in part on the components and an insetted shape corresponding to the 3D shape. A system includes a computing device with a processor and a memory having instructions that, if executed, cause the processor to perform operations. The operations comprise generating a medial axis of a 3D shape and applying a transform to the medial axis to identify one or more components of the shape to be preserved. The operations further comprise creating an output model based at least in part on the one or more components and an insetted shape corresponding to the 3D shape.