[x3d-public] [consortium] AMF - Amf Editor

[Don Brutzman]

I found that AMF was updated to version 1.1 in 2013. Published by ASTM (originally American Society for Testing and Materials).

Public description follows, $49.

http://www.astm.org/Standards/ISOASTM52915.htm
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1. Scope

1.1 This specification describes a framework for an interchange format to address the current and future needs of
additive manufacturing technology. For the last three decades, the STL file format has been the industry standard for transferring information between design programs and additive manufacturing equipment. An STL file contains information only about a surface mesh and has no provisions for representing color, texture, material, substructure, and other properties of the fabricated target object. As additive manufacturing technology is quickly evolving from producing primarily single-material, homogenous shapes to producing multimaterial geometries in full color with functionally graded materials and microstructures, there is a growing need for a standard interchange file format that can support these features.

1.2 The additive manufacturing file (AMF) may be prepared, displayed, and transmitted on paper or electronically, provided the information required by this specification is included. When prepared in a structured electronic format, strict adherence to an extensible markup language (XML)schema is required to support standards-compliant interoperability. The adjunct to this specification contains a W3C XML schema and Annex A1 contains an implementation guide for such representation.

1.3 This standard does not purport to address all of the safety concerns, if any, associated with its use. It is the responsibility of the user of this standard to establish appropriate safety and health practices and determine the applicability of regulatory limitations prior to use.

1.4 This standard also does not purport to address any copyright and intellectual property concerns, if any, associated with its use. It is the responsibility of the user of this standard to meet any intellectual property regulations on the use of information encoded in this file format.

ICS Number Code 25.040.99 (Other industrial automation systems); 35.240.50 (IT applications in industry)

Citation
ASTM ISO / ASTM52915-13, Standard Specification for Additive Manufacturing File Format (AMF) Version 1.1, ASTM International, West Conshohocken, PA, 2013, www.astm.org
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On 8/19/2014 11:47 AM, Don Brutzman wrote:
> The CAD working group has been looking at Additive Manufacturing File Format (AMF) as a way to further speed the growing utility of X3D as an output format for 3D printers.
>
> Today I found the following resource via the Wikipedia entry for AMF, then the AMF Wiki.
>
>      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Additive_Manufacturing_File_Format
>
>      http://amf.wikispaces.com/Amf+Editor
>
>> AMF Editor
>> Open source AMF editing and conversion software
>> Using the open source c++ AMF Tools libraries under development at http://sourceforge.net/projects/amftools/
>> (subversion repository: svn.code.sf.net/p/amftools/code/trunk - compiles with VS 2010 and g++)
>> This project supports all features of the official AMF standard INCLUDING curved triangles (12-13-2012).
>>
>> Current features (v. 0.9.7)
>> -3D viewing and arranging
>> -STL import
>> -Limited X3D import (for surface colors and textures)
>> -Constellation (group) creation and editing
>> -Material creation, editing, and assignment to objects
>> -Material equations for internal material distributions
>> -Slice view
>> -Curved triangle support
>> -Much enhance UI with fewer dialogs and more direct clicking, grouping, transformations, etc.
>
> Given its support for all features in AMF, using open-source C++, this might significantly reduce the effort needed in the CAD group's task to create an X3D to AMF exporter.

all the best, Don
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