Patent ID: 9434107
Filing Date: 2016-09-06
CPC Classification: B29C,B33Y

Claim Text:
1. A method for the stereolithographic production of a three-dimensional object, the method comprising: providing a tank suited to contain a liquid substance; providing a modelling plate comprising a work surface and a lateral surface, the work surface facing the bottom of the tank and suited to support the object, the modelling plate comprising at least one groove in the work surface along a development trajectory and extending to a perimeter edge of the work surface so as to have at least one open end in the lateral surface of the modelling plate; submerging the work surface of the modelling plate in the liquid substance so that a portion of the liquid substance is in the at least one groove, providing selective stimulation to the liquid substance to solidify the liquid substance in a plurality of superimposed layers each having a predefined thickness, maintaining a liquid layer of the liquid substance between the solidified object and the modeling plate in the at least one groove during the provision of selective stimulation.