Abstract: A three-dimensional object manufacturing method for manufacturing a three-dimensional object by ejecting a liquid shaping material and then solidifying the ejected shaping material includes: an interior forming process of forming an interior portion of the three-dimensional object by the shaping material; and a periphery forming process of forming a peripheral portion of a periphery of the interior portion by stacking a plurality of layers by the shaping material, where the shaping material for forming the interior portion in the interior forming process has a larger rigidity in a solid state compared to the shaping material for forming the peripheral portion in the periphery forming process, the periphery forming process is a process of forming a groove configuring one part of the peripheral portion, and the interior forming process is a process of forming the interior portion by placing the liquid shaping material in the groove.

Abstract: This disclosure forms a cubic body that can easily be dismounted from a table. A three-dimensional printing machine (1) has an ink-jet head (4B) for forming each layer of a supporter (S) with a supporting material. The ink-jet head (4B) discharges a first supporting material and a second supporting material, as the supporting material, for forming each layer of the supporter (S); adhesive strengths of the first supporting material and the second supporting material, for adhering to the table (7), being different from each other.

Abstract: A shaped article is provided. The shaped article includes a light reflective layer, a decorative layer, and a first transparent layer. The light reflective layer is being provided from an ink having light reflectiveness. The first transparent layer is being provided from a transparent ink. The decorative layer is disposed on an outer side of the light reflective layer. The first transparent layer is disposed on an outer side of the decorative layer.

Abstract: A manufacturing method for a shaped article is provided and includes manufacturing the shaped article by stacking a plurality of layers on one another, wherein the shaped article comprises a light reflective layer, being formed from an ink having light reflectiveness; a decorative layer; and a transparent layer, being formed from a transparent ink, wherein the decorative layer is formed on an outer side of the light reflective layer, and the transparent layer is formed on an outer side of the decorative layer; and a layer forming process, forming a part of the transparent layer and a part of the decorative layer in this order from an end side toward a center side of at least two of the plurality of layers.

Abstract: A method for forming a three-dimensional object by a fused deposition modeling method. The method uses a plurality of material resin supply units, each configured to supply a coloring material resin of a different color, and the coloring material resins are resins to be used as a modeling material. A mixed resin ejection unit is configured to eject a mixed resin obtained by mixing the coloring material resins supplied from the plurality of material resin supply units. The plurality of material resin supply units being configured to supply the coloring material resins of different colors to the mixed resin ejection unit. The method includes controlling the amounts of the coloring material resins to be supplied from each of the plurality of material resin supply units to the mixed resin ejection unit, thereby adjusting a color of the mixed resin that is to be ejected by the mixed resin ejection unit.

Abstract: There is provided an apparatus for forming a three-dimensional object having a desired decoration. The apparatus for forming a three-dimensional object configured to form a three-dimensional object includes: a head for reflective ink configured to form a light reflection layer, a head for decorative ink, a head for transparent ink, a main scanning driving unit and a sub-scanning driving unit. At least the head for decorative ink and the head for transparent ink are arranged to be positionally offset in a sub-scanning direction, the head for reflective ink, the head for decorative ink and the head for transparent ink are configured to form a transparent layer between the light reflection layer and a decorative layer, thereby forming the decorative layer, the transparent layer and the light reflection layer in corresponding order from a surface layer-side of the three-dimensional object towards an inner side of the three-dimensional object.

Abstract: There is provided a method for forming a three-dimensional object having a desired decoration. The method using an apparatus for forming a three-dimensional object configured to form a three-dimensional object includes: a head for reflective ink configured to form a light reflection layer, a head for decorative ink, a head for transparent ink, a main scanning driving unit and a sub-scanning driving unit. At least the head for decorative ink and the head for transparent ink are arranged to be positionally offset in a sub-scanning direction, the head for reflective ink, the head for decorative ink and the head for transparent ink are configured to form a transparent layer between the light reflection layer and a decorative layer, thereby forming the decorative layer, the transparent layer and the light reflection layer in corresponding order from a surface layer-side of the three-dimensional object towards an inner side of the three-dimensional object.

Abstract: [Object] It is an object to provide a method for forming a three-dimensional object that suppresses generation of streaks on the three-dimensional object, which streaks are parallel to a main scanning direction. [Means of Realizing the Object] A method for forming a three-dimensional object includes a slice information calculation step (step ST23) of dividing three-dimensional data of the three-dimensional object into a plurality of layers so as to calculate cross-sectional slice information of each of the layers; and a unit-layer formation step (step ST27) of forming each of the layers based on the cross-sectional slice information. The unit-layer formation step (step ST27) is repeated a plurality of times. The unit-layer formation step (step ST27) includes a printing step (step ST27A) of extruding inks onto a work surface while moving the extruders in the main scanning direction so as to form a single print path.

Abstract: A shaped article successfully decorated as desired and a manufacturing method for the shaped article are provided. The shaped article is manufactured by multilayer lamination technique, in which a colored layer, a first transparent layer, and a light reflective layer are formed in this order from an outer-layer side toward an inner side of the shaped article.

Abstract: A manufacturing method for a shaped article is provided and includes manufacturing the shaped article by stacking a plurality of layers on one another, wherein the shaped article comprises a light reflective layer, being formed from an ink having light reflectiveness; a decorative layer; and a transparent layer, being formed from a transparent ink, wherein the decorative layer is formed on an outer side of the light reflective layer, and the transparent layer is formed on an outer side of the decorative layer; and a layer forming process, forming a part of the transparent layer and a part of the decorative layer in this order from an end side toward a center side of at least two of the plurality of layers.

Abstract: There is provided an apparatus for forming a three-dimensional object having a desired decoration. The apparatus for forming a three-dimensional object configured to form a three-dimensional object includes: a head for reflective ink configured to form a light reflection layer, a head for decorative ink, a head for transparent ink, a main scanning driving unit and a sub-scanning driving unit. At least the head for decorative ink and the head for transparent ink are arranged to be positionally offset in a sub-scanning direction, the head for reflective ink, the head for decorative ink and the head for transparent ink are configured to form a transparent layer between the light reflection layer and a decorative layer, thereby forming the decorative layer, the transparent layer and the light reflection layer in corresponding order from a surface layer-side of the three-dimensional object towards an inner side of the three-dimensional object.

Abstract: A shaped article formed by multilayer lamination technique is provided and comprising: a decorative layer, wherein the decorative layer has an ink density thereof filled by a supplementary ink in a part of the decorative layer in which a decorative ink alone is insufficient to meet a predetermined ink density.

Abstract: A three-dimensional object shaping method and apparatus are provided that suppress a risk of a three-dimensional object being deformed. In the three-dimensional object shaping method, a three-dimensional object is formed on a working plane. This method includes a three-dimensional object shaping step and a deformation restrainer shaping step. In the deformation restrainer shaping step, a deformation restrainer is formed simultaneously with the three-dimensional object shaping step in contact in at least a part of the deformation restrainer with the three-dimensional object. The deformation restrainer is a portion distinct from a target portion of the three-dimensional object formed in the three-dimensional object shaping step and serving to generate a force that acts against stress causing the target portion to deform.

Abstract: A packaging method for packaging a molded object which is a stereoscopic object includes: a step of accommodating the molded object and a filling material in a storage container so that a periphery of the molded object is surrounded by the filling material; and a step of fixing a position of the filling material to prevent at least a part of the filling material from moving relative to the molded object in the storage container when the storage container is applied with a shock less than or equal to a preset magnitude wherein the molded object is in a state in which the filling material comes into contact with the molded object.

Abstract: A three-dimensional object manufacturing method for manufacturing a three-dimensional object by ejecting a liquid shaping material and then solidifying the ejected shaping material includes: an interior forming process of forming an interior portion of the three-dimensional object by the shaping material; and a periphery forming process of forming a peripheral portion of a periphery of the interior portion by stacking a plurality of layers by the shaping material, where the shaping material for forming the interior portion in the interior forming process has a larger rigidity in a solid state compared to the shaping material for forming the peripheral portion in the periphery forming process, the periphery forming process is a process of forming a groove configuring one part of the peripheral portion, and the interior forming process is a process of forming the interior portion by placing the liquid shaping material in the groove.

Abstract: A three-dimensional object manufacturing method includes a 3D object forming step of forming a three-dimensional object by discharging a UV curing type ink, and then carrying out UV irradiation on the discharged ink to form a layer, and overlapping a plurality of the layers (S101); a support material removing step of removing a support material from the three-dimensional object (S102), and a siloxane applying step of applying an organopolysiloxane solution for suppressing whitening of a surface of the three-dimensional object on the surface of the three-dimensional object (S104), where the organopolysiloxane solution is a solution having alcohol for making the support material transparent as a solvent, and having the organopolysiloxane compound for forming a film on the surface of the three-dimensional object by the drying of alcohol as a solute.

Abstract: A shaped article formed by multilayer lamination technique is provided and comprising: a decorative layer, wherein the decorative layer has an ink density thereof filled by a supplementary ink in a part of the decorative layer in which a decorative ink alone is insufficient to meet a predetermined ink density.

Abstract: A manufacturing method for a shaped article is provided. The shaped article comprising: a decorative layer; a first transparent layer; and a light reflective layer, being formed from an ink having light reflectiveness.

Abstract: During formation of a three-dimensional object, a layer of ink is flattened in a more suitable manner. A forming apparatus 10 for forming a three-dimensional object by additive manufacturing includes an inkjet head, a platform 16, a main scanning driver 14, a sub-scanning driver 18, a deposition direction driver 20, and a flattening roller 302. The sub-scanning driver 18 causes the inkjet head to perform, in between main scanning operations, a sub-scanning operation in which the inkjet head relatively moves by a predetermined forwarding distance in a sub-scanning moving direction, which is a predetermined direction. During the sub-scanning operation, the flattening roller 302 moves in the sub-scanning moving direction together with the inkjet head.

Abstract: There is provided a method for forming a three-dimensional object having a desired decoration. The method using an apparatus for forming a three-dimensional object configured to form a three-dimensional object includes: a head for reflective ink configured to form a light reflection layer, a head for decorative ink, a head for transparent ink, a main scanning driving unit and a sub-scanning driving unit. At least the head for decorative ink and the head for transparent ink are arranged to be positionally offset in a sub-scanning direction, the head for reflective ink, the head for decorative ink and the head for transparent ink are configured to form a transparent layer between the light reflection layer and a decorative layer, thereby forming the decorative layer, the transparent layer and the light reflection layer in corresponding order from a surface layer-side of the three-dimensional object towards an inner side of the three-dimensional object.