公开(公告)号：US20180043634A1

公开(公告)日：2018-02-15

申请号：US15236102

申请日：2016-08-12

Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY

Inventor： Travis Gene SANDS ,  Jerod Curtis KRUSE ,  Johnny DELEON ,  Cory RIFFE

IPC: B29C67/00 ,  B33Y80/00 ,  B33Y50/02 ,  B33Y10/00 ,  B33Y30/00

Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to methods for additive manufacturing (AM) that utilize a computer aided design (CAD) model of a part to develop a layer representation of the part. The method includes: determining a build layer thickness of an additive manufacturing apparatus; identifying a feature of the part within the model; determining that the feature is not aligned along the z-axis based on the build layer thickness; and moving the feature within the model along the z-axis by a feature offset such that the feature is aligned along the z-axis.