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Programming Language Tools and Techniques for 3D Printing

Authors Chandrakana Nandi, Anat Caspi, Dan Grossman, Zachary Tatlock

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  • 3D printing
  • rapid prototyping
  • desktop manufacturing
  • compilers
  • verification
  • synthesis

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Abstract

We propose a research agenda to investigate programming language techniques for improving affordable, end-user desktop manufacturing processes such as 3D printing. Our goal is to adapt programming languages tools and extend the decades of research in industrial, high-end CAD/CAM in order to help make affordable desktop manufacturing processes more accurate, fast, reliable, and accessible to end-users. We focus on three major areas where 3D printing can benefit from programming language tools: design synthesis, optimizing compilation, and runtime monitoring. We present preliminary results on synthesizing editable CAD models from difficult-to-edit surface meshes, discuss potential new compilation strategies, and propose runtime monitoring techniques. We conclude by discussing additional near-future directions we intend to pursue.

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Chandrakana Nandi, Anat Caspi, Dan Grossman, and Zachary Tatlock. Programming Language Tools and Techniques for 3D Printing. In 2nd Summit on Advances in Programming Languages (SNAPL 2017). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 71, pp. 10:1-10:12, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2017) https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.SNAPL.2017.10

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Chandrakana Nandi
Anat Caspi
Dan Grossman
Zachary Tatlock

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