Method of providing an identifiable powder amount and method of manufacturing an object

Abstract

In a method of providing a material amount for a generative manufacturing method, a three-dimensional object (2) is formed by selectively solidifying layers of a material at locations corresponding to the cross-section of the object (2) in the respective layers. It is the object of the present invention to provide a method, by which the quality of the manufactured objects is reproducibly recorded and, thus, further improved. Therefore, the method is characterized by the steps of: providing at least one first material amount, which is characterized by at least one feature; detecting data, which relate to the at least one feature of the first material amount; and storing data, which relate to the at least one feature of the first material amount.

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