Optimized Control Method for Fused Deposition 3D Printing Slice Contour Path Based on Improved Hopfield Neural Network

Figures & data

Figure 1. Cross-sectional profile of the part.

Figure 2. The flow of HNN to solve the optimal solution for 3D printing order.

Figure 3. Fused Deposition 3D Printer.

Figure 4. Comparison of printing time and contour length.

Table 1. Comparison between two methods about printing time and contour length.

Method	Part	Printing time/s	Contour path length/mm
zigzag	A	143.8	281.3
	B	84.4	188.7
IWOA-HNN	A	125.1	56.9
	B	70.6	41.3

Figure 5. Size accuracy comparison.