Non planar layers

peirof

I have found another video/guide

A Former User

Before everyone gets the underwear too messed up with excitement...

There is a possible issue of this already having being patented by another company which might stop it being used freely............

peirof

@calvinx what company?

A Former User

@peirof

Cant remember, i will try to find the article again, i read it last night on one of the 3d printing blogs.

sinned6915

and how different is this than a hexapod with 5 axis?

sounds like someone is trying to patent the ESC key again

fma

@calvinx said in Non planar layers:

There is a possible issue of this already having being patented by another company which might stop it being used freely............

Are you sure this will stop us for non commercial use?

JoergS5

@fma I had the same idea, and a question: how about building a DIY 3D printer with patented technology and then printing and selling 3D printed parts in a shop. Is this allowed?

fma

Good question ; I don't know...

A Former User

Hi

I found the Article.

Possible patent infringement

peirof

@calvinx broken link?

fma

No, the link works fine...

Scachi

@peirof works for me

JoergS5

I am not a lawyer, but I looked into the patend and saw it was abandoned in 2015, and there is an article https://smallbusiness.chron.com/patents-abandoned-65186.html explaining when a patent was abandoned, it can be used. A commecial produced product between abondent and new status active needs not to pay fees. But as I said, I have little patent knowledge.

A Former User

@joergs5
good info but strange that the patent was only applied for in 2015 by auto desk.

further investigation is required I think.

fma

But AFAIK, a patent only prevents commercial use of something; I don't think it forbids someone to develop free sofware for personal use...

But I don't know if it is a problem for a university. It could also be a problem if Prusa Research implements something patented in their Slic3r fork...

Veti

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droftarts

I don't know the status of the Autodesk patent, but there is at least some prior art in 3D printing:
Some other prior art to the March 2015 Autodesk patent, specifically 3D printing:
April 2013 - https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:75735
July 2016 - Hackaday article https://hackaday.com/2016/07/27/3d-printering-non-planar-layer-fdm/
Nov 2014 - Comment in Hackaday article https://hackaday.com/2016/07/27/3d-printering-non-planar-layer-fdm/#comment-3105340 leads to https://github.com/nick-parker/Bread first commit in github was Nov 2014.

Ian

fma

Note that 2 of these links are not the same technic: they just distort a part, and can't slice a non planar part...

I plan to give a try to Bread.

JoergS5

An additional option and innovation to non planar printing: a nozzle which can rotate in all three axes so that the edges of the nozzle do not disturb the non-planar printing and the nozzle can be closer to the layer. Nozzle direction and hereby filament flowout of the nozzle is freely controllable.

droftarts

@joergs5 Nozzle only needs to tilt in two axes (doesn't need to rotate), and it can be the bed that tilts, rather than the nozzle. Moving the nozzle in more than 3 axes (though think milling bit) is common in CNC milling machines, and more recently water jet and laser cutting.

Ian