Additive Manufacturing (AM), also known as 3D printing, has been highlighted as a
complementary method to the traditional (subtractive and formative) manufacturing. This …

An assembly refers to a collection of parts joined together to achieve a specific form and/or
functionality. Designing assemblies is a non‐trivial task as a slight local modification on a …

Understanding how professionals use digital fabrication in production workflows is critical for
future research in digital fabrication technologies. We interviewed thirteen professionals who …

Boolean operations are among the most used paradigms to create and edit digital shapes.
Despite being conceptually simple, the computation of mesh Booleans is notoriously …

We study assemblies of convex rigid blocks regularly arranged to approximate a given
freeform surface. Our designs rely solely on the geometric arrangement of blocks to form a …

We present an interactive editing system for laser cutting called kyub. Kyub allows users to
create models efficiently in 3D, which it then unfolds into the 2D plates laser cutters expect …

We introduce a novel algorithm to transform any generic set of triangles in 3D space into a
well-formed simplicial complex. Intersecting elements in the input are correctly identified …

The craft of carpentry relies on joinery: the connections between pieces of wood to create
multipart structures. In traditional woodworking, joints are limited to the manual chisel skills …

Interlocking assemblies have a long history in the design of puzzles, furniture, architecture,
and other complex geometric structures. The key defining property of interlocking …

We present Tsugite—an interactive system for designing and fabricating wood joints for
frame structures. To design and manually craft such joints is difficult and time consuming …