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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 25, 2021
Filed:
Apr. 14, 2017
Desktop Metal, Inc., Burlington, MA (US);
Aaron Preston, Burlington, MA (US);
Nicholas Mykulowycz, Burlington, MA (US);
Desktop Metal, Inc., Burlington, MA (US);
Abstract
A camera assembly is employed in additive manufacturing to improve the fidelity of a printed object. The camera may scan the surface of a build plate of a 3D printer and an object as it is being printed to generate image data. The image data is processed to detect errors in the build plate or printed object. The printer compensates for the detected errors, which can including modifying the printer configuration and/or modifying the instructions for printing a given object. Using the updated configuration, subsequent objects may then be printed, under a corrected process, to produce an object with fidelity to an original object model.