High volume manufacturing method for precision articles based on three-dimensional printing

A method of manufacturing a plurality of 3D articles by an additive manufacturing system comprising:

• receiving a solid model for an article;
• defining a three-dimensional arrangement of a plurality of 3D articles individually based on the solid model that are pairwise coupled together, an individual pair of the arrangement of 3D articles includes a first article and a second article, a curved body couples a first surface of the first article to the second article, the curved body intersects the first surface to define a closed intersection curve that bounds a break surface, along the closed intersection curve a surface of the curved body subtends an acute angle with the first surface;
• sending the defined arrangement of 3D articles to a print engine;
• operating the print engine to fabricate the arrangement of 3D articles;
• unloading the arrangement of 3D articles from the print engine;
• loading the arrangement of 3D articles into an agitation apparatus;
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• operating the agitation apparatus to separate the three-dimensional arrangement of the plurality of 3D articles into individual 3D articles.