Patent ID: 11880635
Assignee: IVOCLAR VIVADENT AG
Field: Materials, metallurgy (Chemistry)
Classification: CPC G  B  Y | IPC B  G

Claim 0:
1. A plausibility checking method for additive manufacturing devices for producing a component with support structures using input data and output data, comprising providing at least one processor configured to
produce the input data by CAM software as graphics data of which every file renders a layer which comprises one or more pixels, which graphics data corresponds to a component region to be printed in a concerned layer,
compare number of pixels of a layer in the support structures with number of pixels of a previous layer and previous layers in the support structure and
output a signal when a result of the comparison reveals that across a predetermined number of layers there is no increase in the number of pixels per layer and no increase in area which exceeds a predetermined measure,
generate the output data which controls the additive manufacturing device to produce the component to be printed, and
wherein the component to be produced is produced with support structures.