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Patent No.:

US 10315358 B1

PDFFull Text
Date of Patent:
Jun. 11, 2019

Filed:

Mar. 27, 2018

Three-dimensional printing with multi-material support

Applicant:

Makerbot Industries, Llc, Brooklyn, NY (US);

Inventors:

Joseph Sadusk, New York, NY (US);

Filipp Gelman, Staten Island, NY (US);

Assignee:

MakerBot Industries, LLC, Brooklyn, NY (US);

Attorney:

Strategic Patents, P.C.

Primary Examiner:

Anthony Calandra

Assistant Examiner:

Jamel M Nelson

Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B29C 64/30 (2017.01); B29C 64/386 (2017.01); B29C 64/40 (2017.01); B29C 47/00 (2006.01); B29C 47/80 (2006.01); B29C 47/82 (2006.01); B29C 47/92 (2006.01); B29C 64/00 (2017.01); B33Y 10/00 (2015.01); B33Y 50/02 (2015.01); B23K 20/00 (2006.01); B23K 1/19 (2006.01); B33Y 80/00 (2015.01); B29L 9/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B29C 64/386 (2017.08); B29C 47/0002 (2013.01); B29C 47/802 (2013.01); B29C 47/822 (2013.01); B29C 47/92 (2013.01); B29C 64/00 (2017.08); B29C 64/40 (2017.08); B23K 1/19 (2013.01); B23K 20/00 (2013.01); B29C 2947/926 (2013.01); B29C 2947/9258 (2013.01); B29C 2947/92571 (2013.01); B29C 2947/92904 (2013.01); B29L 2009/00 (2013.01); B33Y 10/00 (2014.12); B33Y 50/02 (2014.12); B33Y 80/00 (2014.12); Y02P 90/265 (2015.11); Y10T 428/31786 (2015.04); Y10T 428/31913 (2015.04);
Abstract

Three-dimensional printer fabrication is improved by receiving a digital model of an object specifying two or more different build materials, prioritizing the different build materials with a ranking, identifying exclusive locations where a surface layer of the object has one of the build materials, generating an external structure for the object according to one or more design rules, matching a first build material of the external structure to a second build material of the object at each of the exclusive locations, the matching based on at least one shared property of the materials, generating tool instructions for fabricating the object and the external structure, the tool instructions including one or more selections between the first build material and the second build material based upon the ranking and the matching, and controlling the three-dimensional printer according to the tool instructions to fabricate the object and the external structure.

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