RodSteward: A Design-to-Assembly System for Fabrication using 3D-Printed Joints and Precision-Cut Rods

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2019
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The Eurographics Association and John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
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We present RodSteward, a design-to-assembly system for creating furniture-scale structures composed of 3D-printed joints and precision-cut rods. The RodSteward systems consists of: RSDesigner, a fabrication-aware design interface that visualizes accurate geometries during edits and identifies infeasible designs; physical fabrication of parts automatically generated 3Dprintable joint geometries and cutting plans for rods; and RSAssembler, a guided-assembly interface that prompts the user to place parts in order while showing a focus+context visualization of the assembly in progress. We demonstrate the effectiveness of our tools with a number of example constructions of varying complexity, style and parameter choices.
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@article{
10.1111:cgf.13878
, journal = {Computer Graphics Forum}, title = {{
RodSteward: A Design-to-Assembly System for Fabrication using 3D-Printed Joints and Precision-Cut Rods
}}, author = {
Jacobson, Alec
}, year = {
2019
}, publisher = {
The Eurographics Association and John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
}, ISSN = {
1467-8659
}, DOI = {
10.1111/cgf.13878
} }
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