Additive manufacturing part marking system and process

A method for marking parts in an additive manufacturing (AM) process, comprising:

• converting an encoded component file for a plurality of components to a text-based component toolpath file;
• creating and encoding a set of serialization (SN) files for characters in a part marking geometry, wherein the part marking geometry is configured to be applied to each of the plurality of components and includes a predefined sequence of character positions and possible character values for each position;
• converting encoded SN files to a set of text-based SN toolpath files;
• and
• generating a combined print input file from the component toolpath file and the SN toolpath files to include both component scan paths and SN scan paths, wherein the generating includes combining location and part marking details from a part SN location script with SN geometries from the SN toolpath files to create modified SN toolpath files for marking each of the plurality of components with a unique set of characters;
• wherein the part SN location script further defines how many components are on a build plate and a file server location of the component toolpath file and the SN toolpath files.