Patent ID: 11928407
Assignee: XEROX CORPORATION
Field: Other special machines (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  B  Y | IPC B  G

Claim 0:
1. A method comprising:
for each build orientation of a plurality of build orientations of a three-dimensional model targeted for an additive manufacturing process that deposits material at a minimum printable feature size to build a manufactured object based on the three-dimensional model, performing an optimization loop comprising:
dividing the three-dimensional model into a plurality of slices corresponding to the build orientation;
applying a thinning algorithm to each of the slices to form meso-skeletons such that topological features of the respective slices that are smaller than the minimum printable feature size are reduced to skeletal paths;
forming corrected slices by sweeping the meso-skeletons with the minimum printable feature size;
assembling the corrected slices into a corrected object model; and
determining a difference between the corrected object model and the three-dimensional model;

determining a minimum one of the differences based on the optimization loops and an optimum build orientation corresponding to the minimum difference; and
building the manufactured object at the optimum build orientation using the additive manufacturing process.