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US 11,141,922 B2Granted
System and method of manufacturing an additively manufactured object
AssigneePostProcess Technologies, Inc.
InventorDaniel Joshua Hutchinson
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Abstract
Methods and systems according to the invention may be used to modify a manufacturing plan for an object manufactured by an additive manufacturing process. A digital representation of a desired object and a manufacturing plan may be compared to manufacturing information generated via an evaluation of such an object. Based on that comparison, the manufacturing plan may be modified so that that object or a subsequent object is highly similar to the desired object.
Claims13
A computer-implemented method of manufacturing an object via additive manufacturing, comprising:
- providing a digital representation of a desired object and a manufacturing plan, the manufacturing plan having instructions that should produce a desired object via an additive manufacturing process, wherein the desired object has desired characteristics;
- manufacturing an object via the additive manufacturing process according to the manufacturing plan to produce a manufactured object;
- comparing the manufactured object to the digital representation to determine whether the manufactured object has the desired characteristics;
- identifying parameters of the manufactured object that are different from the desired characteristics;
- using the parameters to modify the manufacturing plan to produce a modified manufacturing plan;
- receiving information regarding excess capacity or lack of capacity;
- modifying the manufacturing plan to use the excess capacity or alleviate the lack of capacity;
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- implementing the modified manufacturing plan to produce the manufactured object.
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