3d printing method for printing components, and corresponding devices
AssigneeDenise Bennewitz
InventorMichael Karg
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Abstract
The invention relates to a 3D component printing process wherein a body is built up from starting material that is irradiated trace-by-trace with a beam, and to a 3D printed component produced by this process. The beam has an effective area profile that is not rotationally symmetric, the effective area profile of the beam being oriented in accordance with the track direction. The invention further relates to a beam orienting assembly for a 3D printing machine and a 3D printing machine comprising such a beam orienting assembly.
Claims17
1-16. (canceled)
A 3D component printing process, wherein a body is built up from starting material which is irradiated track by track with a beam, the beam having an effective area profile, the effective area profile not being rotationally symmetric;
- wherein the effective area profile of the beam is oriented in accordance with the track direction.
A beam orienting assembly for a 3D printing machine comprising:
- a starting material configured to be irradiated track-wise with a beam to build up a body therefrom, the beam having an effective area profile which is not rotationally symmetric;
- wherein the beam orienting assembly is adapted to rotate the effective area profile of the beam in accordance with the track direction.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.