Tuesday 7 June 2011

Bezier tool path optimisation

I'm intrigued by the idea of generating tool paths as bezier splines in the host software with the reprap firmware natively operating on the splines, rather than G-Code.  Researching that idea, I came across this excellent paper on optimising bezier tool paths:

http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/ETD/image/etd2245.pdf

2 comments:

  1. Forgot to reference this wiki page that has loads more pre-thinking: http://reprap.org/mediawiki/index.php?title=Elegant_multispline_motion_controller&oldid=23317

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  2. Truly, this article is really one of the very best in the history of articles. I am a antique ’Article’ collector and I sometimes read some new articles if I find them interesting. And I found this one pretty fascinating and it should go into my collection. Very good work! Arborist Tools

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