Patent ID: 11927938
Assignee: HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, L.P.
Field: Other special machines (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  B | IPC B  G

Claim 0:
1. A non-transitory machine readable medium comprising instructions which when executed by a processor cause the processor to:
generate from object model data and object property data for an object to be generated in additive manufacturing, a representation of a slice of the object model bounded by two planes, the object model data comprising a plurality of initial polygons;
generate a mesh of polygons to represent the slice of the object model based on the initial polygons by:
defining a vertex of a slice polygon where a vertex of an initial polygon intersects a plane of the two planes;
defining a vertex of the slice polygon where an edge of an initial polygon intersects a plane of the two planes;
defining an edge of the slice polygon where a face of an initial polygon intersects a plane of the two planes;
maintaining any initial polygon which is wholly contained within the slice polygon; and
maintaining any initial polygon edge or edge segment within the slice polygon;

generate a mapping between the object property data and the generated polygons; and
cause the object to be generated via additive manufacturing based on the mapping between the object property data and the generated polygons.