Teaser AtomSlicer Paper

AtomSlicer Will Be Presented at SIGGRAPH26

AtomSlicer - Constant-Thickness Field-Aligned Non-Planar Slicing and Continuous Toolpaths for FFF

AtomSlicer generates field-aligned non-planar layers and collision-free multi-axis FFF toolpaths from prescribed tool-orientation and tangent direction fields, maintaining near-constant bead geometry while avoiding stops, retractions, and collisions when possible. It treats these fields as constraints rather than modifying them, reporting non-fabricability when needed, and achieves far less non-extruding travel, one to two orders of magnitude fewer travel moves, and 9×–60× faster computation than Atomizer across large-scale and physical-print validations.

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Authors: Giovanni Cocco, Vincent Belle, Eric Garner, Sylvain Lefebvre and Xavier Chermain

Université de Lorraine, CNRS, Inria, LORIA (Nancy, France)