...Joao Duarte; Isabel Espírito Santo; M. Teresa T. Monteiro; A. Ismael F. Vaz Purpose This paper aims to provide an approach to print shell-type objects using a 5-axis printer. The proposed approach takes advantage of the two additional printer degrees of freedom to provide a curved layer path...

... behavior of the objects to be printed. Originality/value The technique proposed in this paper overcomes the limitations of currently available adaptive and curved layer slicing strategies, by introducing the possibility to generate layers with a non-constant thickness whose shape morphs smoothly from...