Effect of software for FDM additive manufacturing on geometric accuracy and print quality

Miloš Matúš; Peter Križan; Juraj Beniak; Lucia Ploskuňáková

doi:10.30574/gjeta.2022.13.3.0218

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Effect of software for FDM additive manufacturing on geometric accuracy and print quality

Miloš Matúš ^*, Peter Križan, Juraj Beniak and Lucia Ploskuňáková

Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering. Namestie slobody 17, 81231 Bratislava, Slovakia.

Research Article

Global Journal of Engineering and Technology Advances, 2022, 13(03), 110-120.

Article DOI: 10.30574/gjeta.2022.13.3.0218

DOI url: https://doi.org/10.30574/gjeta.2022.13.3.0218

Publication history

Received on 12 November 2022; revised on 24 December 2022; accepted on 27 December 2022

Abstract

Additive manufacturing is becoming an integral part of production technologies with a constantly growing share. The paper is dedicated to the research of the geometrical accuracy of FDM technology with respect to the used control software. The aim of the experiment was to compare the 3D printer's own control software called G3DMaker and the universal control software Simplify3D, where it was possible to confirm the significant influence of the software on the quality of prints. The geometric and dimensional deviations of the samples printed in both software were compared, as well as the quality of the 3D printing surface itself.

Keywords

Additive manufacturing; FDM; Printing software; Geometric accuracy; Dimensional accuracy; Print quality

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Miloš Matúš, Peter Križan, Juraj Beniak and Lucia Ploskuňáková. Effect of software for FDM additive manufacturing on geometric accuracy and print quality. Global Journal of Engineering and Technology Advances, 2022, 13(3), 13-3. Article DOI: https://doi.org/10.30574/gjeta.2022.13.3.0218

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