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US 9,233,504 B2Granted
Tagged build material for three-dimensional printing
AssigneeMakerBot Industries, LLC
InventorsAriel Douglas, Robert J. Steiner, Aric Lynn Jennings, William B. Buel, Anthony D. Moschella
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Abstract
A supply of build material such as a spool or cartridge is instrumented with a data tag that includes information about the build material. A three-dimensional printer can read the information from the tag and determine how to use the build material during fabrication of a three-dimensional object.
Claims17
A system comprising:
- a three-dimensional printer;
- a coupling adapted to receive a supply of a build material;
- a tag sensor communicatively associated with the three-dimensional printer, the tag sensor configured to read data from a data tag associated with the supply of build material that characterizes at least one property of the build material;
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- a controller for the three-dimensional printer, the controller configured to control operation of the three-dimensional printer to fabricate an object, and the controller further configured to receive the data from the tag sensor and to determine an operational parameter for configuring the three-dimensional printer for a fabrication process using the build material based on the at least one property of the build material in the data.
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