Method for designing laminate molded article, production method, production device, and program

A computer program product comprising a non-transitory computer readable storage medium having instructions encoded thereon that, when executed by a computer, cause the computer to execute a procedure for designing an additively-manufactured object to be built by depositing a plurality of weld bead layers formed of a weld bead formed by melting and solidifying a filler metal, the procedure comprising:

• slicing a shape of the additively-manufactured object into weld bead layers each having a height corresponding to one bead layer using data of the shape of the additively-manufactured object, thereby generating a plurality of virtual bead layers;
• setting, as a reference direction, a direction in which the sliced layer of the additively-manufactured object is continuously provided and extended in an intermediate layer disposed at a deposition-direction center of the plurality of virtual bead layers;
• adjusting a bead size of the weld bead to be formed in the plurality of virtual bead layers depending on a bead shape in a section perpendicular to the reference direction, and
• controlling a weld bead-depositing device to deposit a plurality of weld bead layers to form the additively-manufactured object,
• wherein during the setting of the reference direction, the reference direction is set to reduce the total amount of movement that is spent not depositing weld bead layers of the weld bead-depositing device that deposits the plurality of weld bead layers in order to optimize the efficiency of manufacturing the additively-manufactured object, and
• wherein the bead adjusting step is performed by changing at least one selected from the group consisting of formation speed of the weld bead, welding current, welding voltage, and applied pulse based on CAD information about coordinates of the outer surface or dimensional information of the additively-manufactured object.