Party! is an organizer for additive manufacturing (3D printing), tailored for dental and engineering workflows. It imports three-dimensional shell (mesh) files, optimizes their orientation and placement for printing, and saves the manipulated parts. It can also calculate and export slice files.
The same tools cover identical replications, such as jewelry, and unique parts, such as dental and other medical work.
One workflow takes a part from a mesh file to a sliced build: import, repair, orient, nest, tag, support, and slice.
- Import. Mesh files come in from a folder or a database. Many files are read and repaired at once.
- Repair. Cracks and holes are found and closed so the mesh is fit to print.
- Orient. Part angles are chosen for throughput or for a shorter build. Dental copings are turned with the opening up.
- Nest. Parts are placed by their real footprint, so a small part can sit in the cavity of a larger one. Parts can also be moved by hand, and overlaps are cleared automatically.
- Tag. Each part can be labelled, and the label size set, so it can be identified on the plate.
- Supports. Solid, strut, volume scaffold, surface scaffold, and tree supports, chosen for the material and the process.
- Slice. The plate is sliced to vector formats (EOS SLI, SLC, CLI) and to raster PNG for DLP. Open and closed contours are kept, and machine settings such as laser beam diameter are applied.
- Output. Each export saves a numbered picture of the plate and a parts list with volumes and weights.
The same steps can run as a saved workflow, including scripts for a product family. Party! is a standalone application, and the same technology is available as an SDK for an existing manufacturing system. A licence is a file on the workstation, or a seat drawn from a licence server.
Party! is the application behind GraphiTech's 3D printing solution. Nesting inside a build is done with Nestor. Contact GraphiTech at shai@graphitech.net.