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US 2018/0009171 A1Published application
Agent calibration
AssigneeHewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
InventorsDavid H Donovan, Jacob T Wright, Erica Montei Fung
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Abstract
Agent calibration can, in an example implementation, include generating a calibration based on a quantity of energy absorbed by a build material treated with different quantities of an agent and converting a portion of a three-dimensional object model to a quantity of agent based on the calibration.
Claims15
A system for agent calibration, comprising:
- a determine engine to determine a quantity of energy absorbed by a build material treated with a plurality of different quantities of a printing agent at a location of a build area;
- a generate engine to generate a calibration based on the determined quantity of energy;
- and
- a convert engine to convert a portion of a three-dimensional (3-D) object model corresponding to the location, to a calibrated quantity of printing agent with which to treat the location to additively manufacture the portion of the three-dimensional (3-D) object model based on the calibration.
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A non-transitory computer readable medium storing instructions executable by a processing resource to cause a computer to:
- determine, for a build area of a three-dimensional printer, a relationship between a quantity of energy absorbed by an area of build material and a quantity of a printing agent treating the area of build material;
- generate a calibration to convert a modeled quantity of energy to a calibrated quantity of printing agent based on the relationship;
- and
- convert, based on the calibration, a plurality of modeled energy quantities represented in a three-dimensional object model into corresponding quantities of printing agent to be applied to the build area.
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A method of printing agent calibration for a three-dimensional (3-D) printer, comprising:
- generating, from a series of determined quantities of energy absorbed by a build material treated with different quantities of a printing agent, a printer-specific calibration representing a relationship between a quantity of printing agent delivered and a quantity of energy absorbed by an area of build material;
- converting a modeled quantity of energy from a 3-D object model to a calibrated quantity of printing agent based on the calibration;
- generating an adjustment to the calibrated quantity of printing agent to account for a spatial variation of at least one of a quantity of energy absorbed by the build material and a quantity of printing agent delivered across a build area of the 3-D printer;
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- generating an adjusted calibrated quantity of printing agent based on the generated adjustment.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.