stereolithography
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- noun
- /ˌstɛrɪoʊlɪˈθɒɡrəfi/
- Specialized
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archivo de estereolitografía
- The finalized design, in the form of a three-dimensional set of coordinates residing in a CAD file, can then be downloaded to a stereolithography machine for rapid prototyping.
- stereolithography file
Examples
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According to Andersen, the files for stereolithography are sampled down until they contain between 2 and 3 percent of the points of the original scans.
Academic text (2000) -
STL (stereolithography) file, and then downloaded into one of Ford's SLA-250 systems.
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"We did the reconstruction, and just in the first picture of the stereolithography file, you could see that compared to her left arm, the right arm was just flat," Emory said.
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Her doctor captured the geometry of the right side of her nose with the scanner, modeled the left side to match the right in a 3-D system, and then generated a stereolithography file.
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The finalized design, in the form of a three-dimensional set of coordinates residing in a CAD file, can then be downloaded to a stereolithography machine for rapid prototyping.
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The Form 1 uses the technique of stereolithography instead.
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Using stereolithography, designers can easily produce detailed and precise 3D printed objects.
Synonyms
A 3D printing method that uses light to harden liquid plastic layer by layer
How Detailed
Surface Forms
Morphology
stereolithography = lithography (opaque) = stereo + lithography
As a technical term for a file format or surface representation, the components are specialized and unlikely to be known to average learners, so the derivation is not obvious.
Etymology
Stereolithography comes from parts that mean stereo- 'solid', litho- 'stone', and -graphy 'writing' as in photograph. A helpful way to remember the file meaning is to think of it as a 'written' map of a solid object's surface, which is why the name is used for the 3D model file format.