3D Printing of Components with Tailored Properties Through Hilbert Curve Filling of a Discretized Domain.

Owing to the localized line-by-line and layer-by-layer style of material deposition, 3D printing remains an ideal candidate for fabrication of components with tailored properties (also referred to as functionally gradient components). The present work tries to exploit this advantage, in the extrusion-based 3D printing process, to fabricate components with varying set of properties at different locations. The implementation is done using Hilbert area-filling curves with the displacement per unit force (i.