Patent ID: 11886759
Assignee: XEROX CORPORATION
Field: Materials, metallurgy (Chemistry)
Classification: CPC G  B  Y | IPC B  G

Claim 0:
1. A method for operating a three-dimensional (3D) metal object manufacturing system configured to eject melted metal drops comprising:
generating image data of a metal object being formed by the melted metal drops ejected by the 3D metal object manufacturing system prior to completion of the metal object;
comparing the generated image data of the metal object to original 3D object design data to identify a difference;
identifying a displacement error as the identified difference when the identified difference is outside a predetermined difference range;
modifying machine-ready instructions by changing drop spacing parameters identified in the machine-ready instructions for forming metal object layers not yet formed to compensate for the identified displacement error the drop spacing parameters being changed by using a linear function; and
operating the 3D metal object manufacturing system using the modified machine-ready instructions.