Siemens Product Lifestyle Management Inc.

Siemens Industry Software Gmbh

Mark R Burhop

Suraj Ravi Musuvathy

Erhan Arisoy

David Madeley

Hasan Sinan Bank

Edward Slavin, Iii

Hasan Bank

Systems and methods for support structures for additive manufacturing of solid models. A method includes receiving a solid model, for a physical object to be manufactured, that includes a plurality of boundary representation surfaces. The method includes analyzing the b-rep surfaces to generate point samples for potential support locations. The method includes clustering points on the solid model, corresponding to at least some of the point samples, to create support locations. The method includes generating column supports in the solid model that connect to the original solid model at the support locations. The method includes storing the solid model, including the column supports.

Support structures for additive manufacturing of solid models

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Ewing, NJ, United States of America

Mark R Burhop