Device for the additive manufacturing of components
OwnerUwe Rothaug, Victor Romanovinventors
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Abstract
According to the invention, a device for the additive manufacturing of components, preferably by means of selective melting or sintering, in particular by means of a powder bed based laser beam melting process, is provided, which has a control device. Modules of the device for the additive manufacturing of components can be exchanged without any further set-up procedure, so that the device for the additive manufacturing of components can be quickly reconfigured.
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A device for the additive manufacturing of components, preferably by means of selective melting or sintering, comprising
- at least one module with a processing head for directing a light beam onto a processing area, and a swivel arm on which the processing head is arranged, and a carriage on which the swivel arm is rotatably mounted, wherein the module can be moved along a rail device, and
- a control device in which module parameters can be stored or are stored, which define predetermined properties of the module, wherein the control device is set up and designed to control different modules using the module parameters, so that modules can be exchanged in the device for the additive manufacturing of components and these can be controlled by the control device, preferably without any further set-up procedure.
An additive manufacturing device of components, preferably by means of selective melting or sintering, comprising
- at least one module with a processing head for directing a light beam onto a processing area, and a swivel arm on which the processing head is arranged, and a carriage on which the swivel arm is rotatably mounted, wherein the module can be moved along a rail device, and a control device in which module parameters can be stored or are stored, which define predetermined properties of the module, wherein the control device is set up and designed to control different modules using the module parameters, so that modules can be exchanged in the device for the additive manufacturing of components and these can be controlled by the control device, preferably without any further set-up procedure,
- wherein the control device in which module parameters can be stored or are stored, which define predetermined properties of the module, wherein the control device is set up and designed to control different modules using the module parameters, so that modules can be exchanged in the device for the additive manufacturing of components and these can be controlled by the control device, preferably without any further set-up procedure is a production control unit and wherein this control device also comprises the planning control unit and, in this way, forms the control device.
A method for calculating an optimal configuration of a device for additive manufacturing of components, in particular for use in a device for additive manufacturing comprising at least one module with a processing head for directing a light beam onto a processing area, and a swivel arm on which the processing head is arranged, and a carriage on which the swivel arm is rotatably mounted, wherein the module can be moved along a rail device, and
- a control device in which module parameters can be stored or are stored, which define predetermined properties of the module, wherein the control device is set up and designed to control different modules using the module parameters, so that modules can be exchanged in the device for the additive manufacturing of components and these can be controlled by the control device, preferably without any further set-up procedure
- wherein it comprises the following steps:
- Read in CAD data of a component to be manufactured (from component data)
- Determining the local work requirements in the individual layers, and
- Determining an optimum configuration of modules according to the processing requirements of all layers.
A method for additive manufacturing of components, preferably by means of selective melting or sintering, method for calculating an optimal configuration of a device for additive manufacturing of components, comprising the following steps
- Storing module parameters that define predetermined properties of a module in a control device, Control of different modules according to a production process by means of the control device using the module parameters, without further set-up procedure after changing the configuration of an additive manufacturing device.
A method for generating a production process plan for manufacturing a specific component by means of a planning control unit for a device for the additive manufacturing of components,
- Read in of CAD data of the component to be manufactured,
- Creating at least one production process plan using the planning control unit on the basis of the CAD data of the component to be manufactured,
- Creating different configurations of the modules of the device for additive manufacturing of components, and based on this,
- creating a plurality of production process charts, wherein the production process charts are defined by different module parameters of the additive manufacturing device, and
- Selecting a production process based on production time and/or product quality and/or quantity, wherein the production process and/or the appropriate configuration is output.
A planning control unit for automatically generating a production process plan for manufacturing a specific component by means of a device for the additive manufacturing of components,
- wherein the planning control unit is set up and designed to create at least one production process plan on the basis of CAD data of the component to be manufactured,
- wherein
- the planning control unit is set up and designed such that an optimised configuration is determined on the basis of the CAD data of the component to be manufactured, and a production process plan is created on the basis of the optimised configuration, wherein
- in particular a plurality of production process plans are created for different configurations of the additive manufacturing device, in which the different configurations are defined by means of different module parameters, so that one of the plurality of production process plans can be selected with regard to the parameters of production time and/or product quality.
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