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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 19, 2026
Filed:
Apr. 19, 2021
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Justin Stekli, Dayton, OH (US);
Bathrinarayanan Mukundan, Bengaluru, IN;
Ryan Christopher Jones, Evendale, OH (US);
Paul C. Schilling, West Chester, OH (US);
General Electric Company, Evendale, OH (US);
Abstract
A printing device receives modeling data that defines a three-dimensional solid model of a component body having a plurality of faces and a plurality of edges. Each of the faces meets another face of the component body at a respective edge of the component body. The printing device interrogates one or more faces of the component body to identify one or more looped geometries, and defines a lattice exclusion area having a boundary formed based at least in part on one or more faces of the component body that correspond to the looped geometries. The printing device generates a printer output of the component body and a lattice support structure for the component body. The printer output of the lattice support structure is outside of the lattice exclusion area.