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

Claim 18:
19. A system for planning a manufacturing process to be performed by an additive manufacturing system, the system for planning the manufacturing process comprising:
a processing circuit; and
a machine readable storage device comprising machine readable instructions which, when executed, cause the processing circuit to:
receive a three-dimensional model of a first part to be manufactured by the additive manufacturing system;
receive information indicating a selection of available additive manufacturing processes of the additive manufacturing system;
determine one or more material forms 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 metallic wire or a powder;
receive information indicating abilities of a motion system of the additive manufacturing system; and
determine a sequence of a plurality of sequences to manufacture the first part based on the three-dimensional model of the part, the abilities of the motion system, the determined one or more material forms for each of the plurality of features of the part, and the available additive manufacturing processes;
determine a size of each of the plurality of features; and
control the additive manufacturing system to manufacture the first part based on 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 by depositing a first material of the one or more material forms, and controlling a second additive manufacturing tool of the plurality of additive manufacturing tools to manufacture features less than the threshold size value by depositing a second material of the one or more material forms.