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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 03, 2020
Filed:
Jul. 22, 2016
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Travis Gene Sands, Lebanon, OH (US);
Stephen Michael Deak, Liberty Township, OH (US);
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Abstract
A method is provided for making a workpiece in an additive manufacturing process in which a starting material is solidified in a layer by layer fashion, with each layer of the workpiece being solidified using a patterned image of radiant energy configured as a two-dimensional grid array of pixels. The method includes: for each layer of the workpiece, determining a preferred angular orientation of the grid array, relative to the layer; and orienting the patterned image to the preferred angular orientation before solidifying the starting material for that layer.