SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ADAPTIVE DOMAIN REDUCTION FOR THERMO-STRUCTURAL SIMULATION OF ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING PROCESS

    公开(公告)号:US20210103268A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-04-08

    申请号:US16471353

    申请日:2017-01-26

    IPC分类号: G05B19/4099 G06F30/20

    摘要: A system and method are provided for adaptive domain reduction for thermo-structural simulation of an additive manufacturing process. The system may include a processor configured to carry out a simulation of a part being additively produced according to a set of tool paths. The simulation may include determining an original mesh of the part; determining an order of the elements of the original mesh to deposit; and simulating an incremental deposit of each of the elements of the original mesh for a material in the order that the elements are determined to be deposited. For each incremental deposit of an additional respective element the processor may determine thermal characteristics and structural deformation characteristics of the deposited elements. After the deposit of several layers have been simulated, subsequent simulation of elements may be carried out based on a respective modified version of the original mesh in which at least some of the layers of the original mesh previously simulated to be deposited under a current layer are retained and at least some are omitted.

    Computer-Aided Simulation of Multi-Layer Selective Laser Sintering and Melting Additive Manufacturing Processes
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    发明申请
    Computer-Aided Simulation of Multi-Layer Selective Laser Sintering and Melting Additive Manufacturing Processes 审中-公开
    多层选择性激光烧结和熔融添加剂制造工艺的计算机辅助模拟

    公开(公告)号:US20160086376A1

    公开(公告)日:2016-03-24

    申请号:US14610709

    申请日:2015-01-30

    IPC分类号: G06T17/20

    摘要: Methods for computer-aided simulation of multi-layer selective laser sintering and melting additive manufacturing processes and corresponding systems and computer-readable mediums. A method includes receiving a solid model. The method includes slicing the solid model geometry along a build direction and creating 3D meshes that represent manufacturing layers. The method includes simulating manufacture of each of the 3D meshes to produce corresponding deformed 3D meshes. The method includes building a 3D mesh model from the deformed 3D meshes. The method includes displaying the 3D mesh model.

    摘要翻译: 计算机辅助模拟多层选择性激光烧结和熔融添加剂制造工艺及相应系统和计算机可读介质的方法。 一种方法包括接收实体模型。 该方法包括沿构建方向切割实体模型几何,并创建代表制造层的3D网格。 该方法包括模拟每个3D网格的制造以产生相应的变形3D网格。 该方法包括从变形的3D网格构建3D网格模型。 该方法包括显示3D网格模型。

    Optimized partitioning of solid 3D models for additive manufacturing

    公开(公告)号:US10534875B2

    公开(公告)日:2020-01-14

    申请号:US15539917

    申请日:2016-01-21

    摘要: A method of partitioning a model to facilitate printing of the model on a 3D printer includes identifying partition sensitive locations on the model and creating a binary tree with a root note representative of the model. An iterative partitioning process is applied to divide the model into objects by selecting a node of the binary tree without any children nodes, identifying a portion of the model corresponding to the node, and determining candidate cutting planes on the portion of the model based on the partition sensitive locations. During the process, analytic hierarchical processing (AHP) is applied to select an optimal cutting plane from the candidate cutting planes based on partitioning criteria. The optimal cutting plane is used to segment the portion of the model into sub-portions, and two children nodes representative of these sub-portions are created on the node of the binary tree.

    SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR OPTIMIZING TOOL PATHS BASED ON THERMAL/STRUCTURAL SIMULATIONS OF A PART BEING PRODUCED VIA A 3D-PRINTER

    公开(公告)号:US20180314235A1

    公开(公告)日:2018-11-01

    申请号:US15768127

    申请日:2016-03-29

    IPC分类号: G05B19/4099 B33Y50/02

    摘要: A system and method is provided that facilitates optimizing tool paths based on thermal/structural simulations of a part produced via a 3D-printer. A processor may carry out a first simulation of the part being additively produced according to a first set of tool paths that correspond to instructions usable to drive the 3D-printer to produce the part. The first simulation may include: determining a hexahedral mesh of the part that includes a plurality of hexahedron elements; determining an order of the elements of the mesh to deposit for additively producing the part based on the first set of tool paths; and simulating an incremental deposit of each of the elements of the mesh in the order that the elements are determined to be deposited. For each incremental deposit of an additional respective element, thermal characteristics and structural deformation characteristics of the deposited elements are determined, in which some elements have a change in volume to account for a structural deformation of previously deposited adjacent elements.

    OPTIMIZED PARTITIONING OF SOLID 3D MODELS FOR ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING

    公开(公告)号:US20180268091A1

    公开(公告)日:2018-09-20

    申请号:US15539917

    申请日:2016-01-21

    IPC分类号: G06F17/50 B33Y50/00 G06T17/00

    摘要: A method of partitioning a model to facilitate printing of the model on a 3D printer includes identifying partition sensitive locations on the model and creating a binary tree with a root note representative of the model. An iterative partitioning process is applied to divide the model into objects by selecting a node of the binary tree without any children nodes, identifying a portion of the model corresponding to the node, and determining candidate cutting planes on the portion of the model based on the partition sensitive locations. During the process, analytic hierarchical processing (AHP) is applied to select an optimal cutting plane from the candidate cutting planes based on partitioning criteria. The optimal cutting plane is used to segment the portion of the model into sub-portions, and two children nodes representative of these sub-portions are created on the node of the binary tree.