TPMS_Scaffold_Generator: A Scaffold-Structure Generator Based on Triply Periodic Minimal Surfaces

With the rapid development of additive manufacturing (AM), scaffold architectures based on triply periodic minimal surfaces (TPMS) have attracted increasing interest in various engineering fields. Nevertheless, they are limited because of the complexity of the design process when adopted in different research and engineering fields. In this work, we present a free and easy-to-use software package called TPMS_Scaffold_Generator, which is coded using MATLAB (Mathworks, Inc., USA). It offers three function tabs which are homogeneous tab, heterogeneous tab and multisymmetrical tab, respectively. Variables of the tabs include including the volume fraction, topology type, unit cell size, the length of architecture in X, Y, Z direction, accuracy, and the style of gradient and so forth. TPMS_Scaffold_Generator can generate various TPMS scaffolds, especially ultralight and multisymmetrical scaffolds. The latest version of the TPMS_Scaffold_Generator is freely available at: https://github.com/LeveeLin/TPMS_Scaffold_Generator.git.