Visual evaluation of the possibility of rational product orientation in layered building at additive technologies installation

The developed subsystem of visual evaluation of triangulation models is presented. It is included in the system of technological planning of complex products manufacturing by additive technologies. This computer system allows to evaluate workability of industrial product and analyse the effectiveness of its production using additive technologies. It is proposed to perform an analysis of triangulated model of a complex product by colour visualizing of its representation on triangulated model of sphere and setting the colour scale of the correspondence to investigated characteristic of faces. The condition for mapping onto the sphere is the determination of inclination angles of faces vectors of the triangulation product model in the spherical coordinate system into the values range of a certain triangular face of the sphere model. Examples of workability evaluation based on analysis of spherical reflected of the original 3D model of product are considered. The proposed approach can significantly increase information capacity level in design development and visually determine possibility of rational product orientation in working space of layer-by-layer installation.