Abstract
One of the factors responsible for the mechanical strength of objects manufactured by thermoplastic extrusion 3D printers is the adhesion between adjacent material beads in the same layer. This, in turn, depends on the time lapsed between their deposition. In this paper we describe HotFill, an algorithm that finds a tool-path for solid raster infill that keeps the cooling time intervals between depositions below user-specified limits. The algorithm, based on the dynamic programming technique, was implemented in Python and tested on several representative slices of 3D models. The results show that HotFill is fast and produces tool-paths that have low fabrication time while respecting the cooling time constraints. The source code and datasets are available at GitHub.
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