METHOD AND SYSTEM OF ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING CONTOUR-BASED HATCHING

• Main Authors: Carter, William T, Toledano, David S, Karp, Jason Harris
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; French; German
• Published: 29.11.2023
• Subjects: ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGY; ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING, i.e. MANUFACTURING OFTHREE-DIMENSIONAL [3-D] OBJECTS BY ADDITIVE DEPOSITION, ADDITIVEAGGLOMERATION OR ADDITIVE LAYERING, e.g. BY 3-D PRINTING,STEREOLITHOGRAPHY OR SELECTIVE LASER SINTERING; BLASTING; CASTING; COMBINED OPERATIONS; ENGINE PLANTS IN GENERAL; HEATING; LIGHTING; MACHINE TOOLS; MACHINES OR ENGINES IN GENERAL; MAKING METALLIC POWDER; MANUFACTURE OF ARTICLES FROM METALLIC POWDER; MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; METAL-WORKING NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; NON-POSITIVE DISPLACEMENT MACHINES OR ENGINES, e.g. STEAMTURBINES; OTHER WORKING OF METAL; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; POWDER METALLURGY; STEAM ENGINES; TRANSPORTING; UNIVERSAL MACHINE TOOLS; WEAPONS; WORKING METALLIC POWDER

A system and method including receiving a data model representation of a part, the data model representation including at least one layer of the part and inner and outer contours for the at least one layer; determining a hatch pattern for each layer of the at least one layer of the part, the hatch pattern for each layer being dependent on the inner and outer contours for each respective layer; generating a record of the determined hatch pattern for each layer, the record including locations for the hatch pattern for each layer; and saving the record of the determined hatch pattern for each layer of the part. In some aspects, the record of the determined hatch pattern for each layer of the part may be used in an additive manufacturing process.