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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 30, 2023
Filed:
Sep. 04, 2018
Siemens Industry Software Inc., Plano, TX (US);
Siemens Industry Software Inc., Plano, TX (US);
Abstract
A computer-aided design (CAD) system may support spatially-aware detection of trapped support areas in 3D printing. The CAD system may detect trapped support areas in the surface mesh in that detected trapped support area do not have linear access to an opening in the surface mesh, including by surrounding the surface mesh with a virtual bounding box that encloses the surface mesh, mapping the virtual bounding box and surface mesh into a 3D cube space, and tracking mesh cubes and bounding cubes of the 3D cube space. For a given mesh face of the surface mesh, The CAD system may determine whether the given mesh face is part of a trapped support area by projecting a ray from the given mesh face and assessing the given mesh face as part of a trapped support area based on the ray passing through a mesh cube or a bounding cube.
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