Patent ID: 11858064
Assignee: ILLINOIS TOOL WORKS INC.
Field: Machine tools (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC B  G  Y | IPC B  G

Claim 0:
1. An additive manufacturing system, comprising:
a plurality of additive manufacturing tools configured to perform a plurality of additive manufacturing processes;
a processing circuit; and
a machine readable storage device comprising machine readable instructions which, when executed, cause the processing circuit to:
receive a model of a part to be manufactured;
receive information indicating the plurality of additive manufacturing processes;
determine one or more material forms to be added to the part, and a deposition rate for each of a plurality of features of the part to be manufactured from the one or more material forms, wherein the one or more material forms is a wire or a powder;
determine a sequence of a plurality of sequences to manufacture the part based on the model of the part, the plurality of additive manufacturing processes, the determined one or more material forms, and the deposition rate of the one or more material forms for each of the plurality of features to be formed via the sequence;
determine a size of each of the plurality of features; and
control the plurality of additive manufacturing tools to manufacture the part according to the sequence, wherein the sequence includes controlling a first additive manufacturing tool of the plurality of additive manufacturing tools to manufacture features greater than a threshold size value, and controlling a second additive manufacturing tool of the plurality of additive manufacturing tools to manufacture features less than the threshold size value.