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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 19, 2017
Filed:
Nov. 26, 2014
Siemens Product Lifecycle Management Software Inc., Plano, TX (US);
Mark R. Burhop, Ewing, NJ (US);
David Madeley, Louth, GB;
Suraj Musuvathy, Princeton, NJ (US);
Erhan Arisoy, Princeton, NJ (US);
Edward Slavin, Robbinsville, NJ (US);
Hasan Bank, Princeton, NJ (US);
Siemens Product Lifestyle Management Inc., Plano, TX (US);
Abstract
Systems and methods for support structures for additive manufacturing of solid models. A method includes receiving a solid model, for a physical object to be manufactured, that includes a plurality of boundary representation surfaces. The method includes analyzing the b-rep surfaces to generate point samples for potential support locations. The method includes clustering points on the solid model, corresponding to at least some of the point samples, to create support locations. The method includes generating column supports in the solid model that connect to the original solid model at the support locations. The method includes storing the solid model, including the column supports.