Patent ID: 11872765
Assignee: HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, L.P.
Field: Other special machines (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC B  G | IPC B  G

Claim 12:
13. A non-transitory machine-readable storage medium encoded with instructions executable by a processor to:
receive design data for an object including information about a geometry and load characteristics of the object;
receive fluidic data representing a network of fluid channels to be included in the object to distribute a fluid based on the information about the object;
generate print data based on the design data, the print data corresponding to structural features of the object generated separately from the network of fluid channels on which basis the fluidic data is generated, the print data generated in a first format usable by a three-dimensional printer to three-dimensionally print the object without the network of fluid channels;
merge the print data and the fluidic data to generate an output file in a second format usable by the three-dimensional printer to three-dimensionally print the object with the network of fluid channels; and
cause the three-dimensional printer to three-dimensionally print the object with the network of fluid channels in accordance with the output file to physically generate the object with the network of fluid channels.