Patent ID: 11919245
Assignee: UT-BATTELLE, LLC
Field: Other special machines (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC B  G  Y | IPC B

Claim 10:
11. A method for additively manufacturing a microstructure from a caloric material, the method comprising:
providing a geometry of the microstructure to a processor of an additive manufacturing device, the geometry defining a plurality of microfeatures of the microstructure;
generating, via the processor, a three-dimensional (3D) model representative of the geometry of the microstructure, wherein one or more of the plurality of microfeatures has an arcuate cross-sectional shape;
analyzing and simplifying, via the processor, the geometry of the microstructure in the 3D model by replacing the arcuate cross-sectional shape of the one or more of the plurality of microfeatures with a non-arcuate cross-sectional shape; and
printing, via the additive manufacturing device, the microstructure from the caloric material according to the 3D model,
wherein replacing the arcuate cross-sectional shape in one or more of the plurality of microfeatures in the 3D model with the non-arcuate cross-sectional shape provides for a reduced file size of the 3D model.