Invention Application
- Patent Title: SYSTEMS, DEVICES, AND METHODS FOR GENERATING A LATTICE SUPPORT STRUCTURE OUTSIDE OF AN EXCLUSION AREA
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Application No.: US17234277Application Date: 2021-04-19
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Publication No.: US20220332050A1Publication Date: 2022-10-20
- Inventor: Justin Stekli , Bathrinarayanan Mukundan , Ryan Christopher Jones , Paul C. Schilling
- Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
- Applicant Address: US NY SCHENECTADY
- Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
- Current Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
- Current Assignee Address: US NY SCHENECTADY
- Main IPC: B29C64/386
- IPC: B29C64/386 ; B33Y50/00 ; G06F30/10 ; G05B19/4099

Abstract:
A printing device receives modeling data that defines a three-dimensional solid model of a component body having a plurality of faces and a plurality of edges. Each of the faces meets another face of the component body at a respective edge of the component body. The printing device interrogates one or more faces of the component body to identify one or more looped geometries, and defines a lattice exclusion area having a boundary formed based at least in part on one or more faces of the component body that correspond to the looped geometries. The printing device generates a printer output of the component body and a lattice support structure for the component body. The printer output of the lattice support structure is outside of the lattice exclusion area.
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