COMPENSATION FOR ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING

• Main Authors: HERMAN, William, DURSTOCK, Daniel, PANG, Tingfan, OSGOOD, Daniel, GARAY, Gregory, YANG, Xi, BRASSFIELD, Steven
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; French; German
• Published: 02.08.2023
• 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; AFTER-TREATMENT OF THE SHAPED PRODUCTS, e.g. REPAIRING; CASTING; MAKING METALLIC POWDER; MANUFACTURE OF ARTICLES FROM METALLIC POWDER; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; POWDER METALLURGY; SHAPING OF MATERIAL IN A PLASTIC STATE, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDEDFOR; SHAPING OR JOINING OF PLASTICS; TRANSPORTING; WORKING METALLIC POWDER; WORKING OF PLASTICS; WORKING OF SUBSTANCES IN A PLASTIC STATE, IN GENERAL

A method of printing a component comprising: receiving an original model of the component at a printer, identifying an acute angle in a geometry of the original model; compensating the geometry of the original model at the printer to create a compensated model (154), wherein the compensating includes removing a portion (156) of the original model at the identified acute angle (164); and printing with the printer, the component based upon the compensated model (154).