Highcon Systems Ltd.

Steam Cc Ltd.

Eli Ireni

David Ben-David

Michael Zimmer

Claudio Rottman

Michael Karp

Eyal Eliav

Danny Lavie

Yosef Meshulam

Methods and apparatus for stripping away portions of substrate are disclosed herein. In some embodiments, a flexible and/or soft impact-element(s) rotates around a rotation axis to drive a peripheral portion across a substrate plane of the substrate and/or to repeatedly collide with the substrate. At least some of the collisions are effective to partially dislodge or to strip away portion(s) of substrate.

Method and apparatus for substrate stripping

Embodiments of the present invention relate to a system and method for manufacturing a three-dimensional object from a stack of pre-stripped layers of substrate. Each object layer is formed by (i) providing substrate comprising waste portion(s) and substrate-retained portion(s) that are attached to each other and separated from one another by cut(s) within the substrate; (ii) subsequently, subjecting the subject of each layer to a stripping process which selectively strips away substrate-waste portion(s) from the substrate-retained portion(s). After stripping, the object layer is added to a stack of previously-stacked object layers to grow the stack. This process is repeated to further grow the stack. Object layers of the stack are bonded to each other to build the three-dimensional object therefrom. Apparatus and methods for stripping are also described&#x2014;any teaching or combination of teaching(s) related to stripping substrate may be employed in any additive-manufacturing process described herein.

Method and apparatus for building a 3D object from layers of pre-stripped substrate

Printing apparatus

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