Support Structures Extraction for Hybrid Layered Manufacturing

Abstract

In a multi-axis metal hybrid layered manufacturing system, a combined laser material deposition and material removal system with more than 3-axis mobility, sometimes support structures are necessary in the part building process, which prevent object from ailing during deposition process. Since the support material is the same as build material, it is very difficult to remove the support material in the post processing stage. Thus, the support material must be machined off. Therefore, the geometry information of support structures is important for the machining process. In this paper, a method is presented to extract support structures automatically. Two types of support structures, trapped and non-trapped, are classified in this paper and their extraction methods are discussed respectively.

Meeting Name

2001 ASME Design Engineering Technical Conference and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference

Department(s)

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Keywords and Phrases

Material Removal Systems; Support Structures

Document Type

Article - Conference proceedings

Document Version

Citation

File Type

text

Language(s)

English

Rights

© 2001 American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), All rights reserved.

Publication Date

01 Jan 2001

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