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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 05, 2017
Filed:
Jun. 28, 2013
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Michael Evans Graham, Slingerlands, NY (US);
William Thomas Carter, Galway, NY (US);
Mark Allen Cheverton, Mechanicville, NY (US);
Pinghai Yang, Schenectady, NY (US);
General Electric Company, Niskayuna, NY (US);
Abstract
A system for fabricating a component includes an additive manufacturing device and a computing device. The additive manufacturing device is configured to fabricate a first component by sequentially forming a plurality of superposed layers based upon a nominal digital representation of a second component, which includes a plurality of nominal digital two-dimensional cross-sections, each corresponding to a layer of the first component. The computing device includes a processor, wherein for an ilayer of the first component, the processor is configured to (a) generate a cumulative compensation transformation; (b) apply the cumulative compensation transformation to the nominal digital two-dimensional cross-section corresponding to the ilayer to create an intermediate digital two-dimensional cross-section corresponding to the ilayer; (c) determine a local compensation transformation; and (d) apply the local compensation transformation to the intermediate digital two-dimensional cross-section corresponding to the ilayer.