一般快速原型系統，以層型加工為基本工作原理，已有許多種類硬體架構，在檔案輸入方面以STL為非制式標準的檔案格式。未來快速原型系統的應用，由於軟、硬體效能的提升，大尺寸物件將是趨勢，配合複合材料可延伸出各類產品而不只侷限於模型。然而在三維列印的架構下，大尺寸物件必須賦予支撐結構方可成型。
本論文提出硬體以及軟體的整合方式，以三維列印為主體，利用一般二維列印的噴印模組，結合程序控制的機構以及成型材料，接收來自PC端的列印資料，依預設層厚設定，層層堆積製作物件。軟體部分，將STL檔案讀入，透過所提出的三維列印支撐結構方法，依據所選取的三角面進行投影、偏移以及利用OpenGL直接繪圖，來產生支撐結構並存成STL檔案格式。之後匯入資料建立毗鄰關係成為訂定的拓蹼資料結構，經直接切層法則運算後，列印輸出。利用Visual C++程式語言並使用OpenGL來進行以上演算的整合。本研究經由驗證結果可確定軟體資料輸出的正確性以及結合硬體的整合系統的可行性。

　Generally, rapid prototype system, it bases on the operation principle to process layer by layer, and has several kinds of hardware already. The input of STL file format has become the de facto standard in rapid prototyping. Due to the improvement of effectiveness in both software and hardware, large item production looks feasiblly in the future. With the application of complex material, the variety of product-type using RP technology will be dramatically extended and, no more, be limited in model production. However under the structure of 3D printing, large item production will be possible only if specific support were applied.
　This thesis proposes the hardware and software integrated method with the subject of the three-dimensional printing. The hardware utilizes ink-jet of general two-dimensional printer and combines with the traversing mechanism and the process controls and model material, and piles up in accordance with default layer thickness. As the supporting structure in STL-file format is generated through the concepts of the 3D-printing support generating method which iscarried out by performing projection and displacement of selected triangular surfaces and then the generated 3D model is further constructed by Open GL and saved in STL-file format. As STL file is read, and then builds adjacency to store into the topology data structure. After the operation of direct slicing rule, hundreds of contours in each layer are obtained by using Visual C ++ programming language and OpenGL library to implement the algorithm above. It can confirm exactness that the software output and systematic feasibility of integrating the hardware through the result of system integration test on the 3D printer.

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