Update (2.0) to MiniSurf - A minimal surface generator for finite element modeling and additive manufacturing

Author(s): Hsieh, Meng-Ting; Valdevit, Lorenzo | Abstract: This is an update to PII: S2665963820300178.We present an updated version v2.0 of our minimal surface generator MiniSurf v1.0, that creates triply periodic minimal surface (TPMS) computer-aided design (CAD) files for both finite element modeling and additive manufacturing. Besides making the GUI more user-friendly, in this new version we significantly improve the mesh quality of the generated CAD files by incorporating a mesh smoothing feature. With this new smoothing feature, MiniSurf v2.0 can now produce high quality CAD files for more accurate finite element modeling and more precise additive manufacturing.

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