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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 15, 2026
Filed:
Sep. 22, 2020
Peridot Print Llc, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Nathan Eric Shirley, Vancouver, WA (US);
Benjamin David Coughlin, Vancouver, WA (US);
Ronnie George Parsons, Portland, OR (US);
PERIDOT PRINT LLC, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
According to examples, an apparatus may include a processor that may obtain a digital model of an item to be fabricated by a 3D fabrication system. The digital model may include pores or pores are to be added algorithmically to the digital model and the pores traverse a curved section of the digital model. The processor may identify within the digital model, consecutive pores along the curved section that fail to comply with a predefined constraint, in which the predefined constraint may include an inter-pore distance constraint, an inter-pore cross-sectional area constraint, or a combination thereof. The processor may modify the digital model to remove at least some of the identified pores to cause remaining pores along the curved section to comply with the predefined constraint.