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TheFraunhofer计算机图形研究所(Fraunhofer IGD) has optimized its Cuttlefish 3D printer driver forStratasys’PolyJet 3D printing systems.
Having first began supporting the PolyJet 3D printing systems in 2017 with its Cuttlefish software package, Fraunhofer IGD has now improved and added to the software’s existing algorithms in order to help companies save costs and produce prints with increased geometric and color accuracy.
“When it’s an issue of optimization for mass production, specific color requests or degrees of translucency, nesting or individual color calibration, that’s where we come in,” said Philipp Urban, Head of 3D Printing Technologies at Fraunhofer IGD. “Our collaborative partnership has been designed for the long term, with the aim of enabling Stratasys customers to fully exploit the technical potential of their printers.”
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Fraunhofer IGD的Cuttlefish软件是基于Voxel的通用3D打印机驱动程序，可与多种3D打印材料同时使用，以重现对象的外观。能够检测通过对象传输的光的分散以及色调和表面纹理的变化，驱动程序可以准确捕获模型的形状，颜色和颜色过渡。
The software then rapidly processes this data for 3D printing in order to precisely reproduce an original object’s geometric and visual attributes. Cuttlefish is suited to applications within the medicine and automotive sectors and can be used to produce prototypes, end-products, and replicas.
Since supporting Stratasys’ PolyJet systems in 2017 via the GrabCAD Voxel Print interface, Cuttlefish has helped to produce hundreds of thousands of high-quality PolyJet 3D prints for customers in a range of industries.
特别是，这种技术合作伙伴关系使使用PolyJet 3D打印机作为增材制造研究工作的一部分的大学和研究机构受益。雷电竞充值雷电竞app下载墨鱼驱动程序的插电插入功能使研究人员可以方便地将自己的方法和软件组件集成到驾驶员的工作流程中，从而消除了研究人员自己对所有内容进行编程的需求。取而代之的是，研究人员能够利用Fraunhofer IGD的专业知识作为进一步研究3D打印领域的基础。
Full-color Polyjet 3D printing
Stratasys广泛的多物质PolyJet打印机系列由其旗舰J8系列组成，该系列由该公司的J850 Prime Machine领导，这是该公司的全彩色变体新发布的J850 Pro.
The company’s other PolyJet systems include theJ700 Dental，用于清晰的对齐器生产，J720 Dental专为全颜色正畸零件而设计，J750数字解剖结构能够模仿骨骼和组织，以使生活样模型。在2019年，J750获得了验证来自全球色机构Pantone，这导致Stratasys将标准提供商的颜色管理系统集成到打印机的工作流程中。
Just last month, the company launched a furtherfour additions to its PolyJet hardware and software portfolio, including two new PolyJet 3D printers – the J35 Pro and the J55 Prime – and two new software programs for research and product package prototyping applications.
3D printing the Missing Link
One notable application of the partnership between Stratasys and Fraunhofer IGD isstop-motion movie Missing Linkproduced by animation studio莱卡. More than 106,000 facial expressions were captured and 3D printed with the Cuttlefish and Polyjet technology combination. According to Brian McLean, Director of Rapid Prototype at LAIKA, the software and hardware pairing enabled the creation of lifelike models with many different color graduations.
“We’ve beenusing 3D printers in stop-motion productions自Coraline以来，第一部电影在Laika拍摄。”他说。“对于我们的最新电影《缺少链接》，我们使用了Fraunhofer IGD技术，因为它们允许独特的颜色一致性和几何精度。通过将墨鱼软件与Stratasys J750系列3D打印机相结合，我们能够创建有史以来最复杂的3D印刷表面。”雷电竞app下载
This achievement was clearly appreciated on the big screen, too, as Missing Link won a Golden Globe in the Best Animated Feature category in 2020.
The partnership between LAIKA and Stratasys to 3D print the characters for the Missing Link film was nominated by our readers for the创造性使用3D打印category in our2019 3D Printing Industry Awards. Nominations for this year’s awards are still open, and if you haven’t done so already, you cancast your votes here.
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Featured image showseye prosthesis printed with Cuttlefish on a Stratasys J750 3D printer. Photo via Fraunhofer IGD.
