Patent ID: 9586364
Date: 2017-03-07
CPC Classifications: B29C,B33Y

Claim:
1. A method of making a three-dimensional object from a solidifiable material, comprising: receiving three-dimensional object data representative of the three-dimensional object; identifying active voxels by determining intersections between voxels in a three-dimensional voxel matrix and locations of a model of the three-dimensional object, wherein each voxel has a set of coordinates in a three-dimensional coordinate system, the model is defined by the three-dimensional object data, and the three-dimensional object data comprises a plurality of three-dimensional object data items, each three-dimensional object data item having a set of coordinates in the three-dimensional coordinate system; generating a plurality of sets of solidification energy source event data based on the active voxels, wherein each set of solidification energy source event data corresponds to a linear solidification device scan line and a layer of the three-dimensional object, wherein the voxel matrix comprises a plurality of voxels, each voxel has a first dimension dx, a second dimension dy, and a third dimension dz, the first dimension dv is a scan line gap corresponding to a build envelope length L and a maximum number of scans N where, N