Systems, devices, and methods for printing slices of a three-dimensional component model
AssigneeGeneral Electric Company
InventorsXuefeng Zhang, Christopher Hall, William L. Schneider
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Abstract
A method carried out by a printing device includes receiving a model of a three-dimensional component, receiving an output structure definition for the component, and segmenting the model of the component into a stack of slices. The method further includes, for each of the slices in the stack, outputting a respective printing layer comprising an arrangement of one or more slice instances of the slice according to the output structure definition.
Claims20
A method carried out by a printing device, the method comprising:
- receiving a model of a three-dimensional component;
- receiving an output structure definition for the component;
- segmenting the model of the component into a stack of slices;
- and
- for each of the slices in the stack, outputting a respective printing layer comprising an arrangement of one or more slice instances of the slice according to the output structure definition.
A printing device comprising a processor and a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the printing device to:
- receive a model of a three-dimensional component;
- receive an output structure definition for the component;
- segment the model of the component into a stack of slices;
- and
- for each of the slices in the stack, output a respective printing layer comprising an arrangement of one or more slice instances of the slice according to the output structure definition.
A method carried out by a printing device, the method comprising:
- receiving a model of a three-dimensional component;
- receiving an output structure definition for the component;
- segmenting the model of the component into a stack of slices;
- and
- for each of the slices in the stack:
- generating a respective printing-layer model that includes an arrangement of one or more slices instances of the slice;
- and
- outputting a respective printing layer comprising a representation of the respective printing-layer model,
- wherein, for at least one of the slices in the stack, the respective printing layer comprising the representation of the respective generated printing-layer model is output prior to generating the respective printing-layer model for one or more other slices in the stack.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.