EP4511183A1 - Procédé et dispositif de génération de données de commande pour un dispositif de fabrication additive d'un composant - Google Patents

Procédé et dispositif de génération de données de commande pour un dispositif de fabrication additive d'un composant

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EP4511183A1
EP4511183A1 EP23717573.2A EP23717573A EP4511183A1 EP 4511183 A1 EP4511183 A1 EP 4511183A1 EP 23717573 A EP23717573 A EP 23717573A EP 4511183 A1 EP4511183 A1 EP 4511183A1
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filling
solidification
scan vectors
component
control data
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Markus RADEK
Ludger HÜMMELER
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B22—CASTING; POWDER METALLURGY
    • B22F—WORKING METALLIC POWDER; MANUFACTURE OF ARTICLES FROM METALLIC POWDER; MAKING METALLIC POWDER; APPARATUS OR DEVICES SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR METALLIC POWDER
    • B22F10/00—Additive manufacturing of workpieces or articles from metallic powder
    • B22F10/20—Direct sintering or melting
    • B22F10/28—Powder bed fusion, e.g. selective laser melting [SLM] or electron beam melting [EBM]
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B22—CASTING; POWDER METALLURGY
    • B22F—WORKING METALLIC POWDER; MANUFACTURE OF ARTICLES FROM METALLIC POWDER; MAKING METALLIC POWDER; APPARATUS OR DEVICES SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR METALLIC POWDER
    • B22F10/00—Additive manufacturing of workpieces or articles from metallic powder
    • B22F10/30—Process control
    • B22F10/36—Process control of energy beam parameters
    • B22F10/366—Scanning parameters, e.g. hatch distance or scanning strategy
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B29—WORKING OF PLASTICS; WORKING OF SUBSTANCES IN A PLASTIC STATE IN GENERAL
    • B29C—SHAPING OR JOINING OF PLASTICS; SHAPING OF MATERIAL IN A PLASTIC STATE, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; AFTER-TREATMENT OF THE SHAPED PRODUCTS, e.g. REPAIRING
    • B29C64/00—Additive manufacturing, i.e. manufacturing of three-dimensional [3D] objects by additive deposition, additive agglomeration or additive layering, e.g. by 3D printing, stereolithography or selective laser sintering
    • B29C64/10—Processes of additive manufacturing
    • B29C64/141—Processes of additive manufacturing using only solid materials
    • B29C64/153—Processes of additive manufacturing using only solid materials using layers of powder being selectively joined, e.g. by selective laser sintering or melting
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B29—WORKING OF PLASTICS; WORKING OF SUBSTANCES IN A PLASTIC STATE IN GENERAL
    • B29C—SHAPING OR JOINING OF PLASTICS; SHAPING OF MATERIAL IN A PLASTIC STATE, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; AFTER-TREATMENT OF THE SHAPED PRODUCTS, e.g. REPAIRING
    • B29C64/00—Additive manufacturing, i.e. manufacturing of three-dimensional [3D] objects by additive deposition, additive agglomeration or additive layering, e.g. by 3D printing, stereolithography or selective laser sintering
    • B29C64/30—Auxiliary operations or equipment
    • B29C64/386—Data acquisition or data processing for additive manufacturing
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B33—ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGY
    • B33Y—ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING, i.e. MANUFACTURING OF THREE-DIMENSIONAL [3D] OBJECTS BY ADDITIVE DEPOSITION, ADDITIVE AGGLOMERATION OR ADDITIVE LAYERING, e.g. BY 3D PRINTING, STEREOLITHOGRAPHY OR SELECTIVE LASER SINTERING
    • B33Y10/00—Processes of additive manufacturing
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B33—ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGY
    • B33Y—ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING, i.e. MANUFACTURING OF THREE-DIMENSIONAL [3D] OBJECTS BY ADDITIVE DEPOSITION, ADDITIVE AGGLOMERATION OR ADDITIVE LAYERING, e.g. BY 3D PRINTING, STEREOLITHOGRAPHY OR SELECTIVE LASER SINTERING
    • B33Y50/00—Data acquisition or data processing for additive manufacturing
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B33—ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGY
    • B33Y—ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING, i.e. MANUFACTURING OF THREE-DIMENSIONAL [3D] OBJECTS BY ADDITIVE DEPOSITION, ADDITIVE AGGLOMERATION OR ADDITIVE LAYERING, e.g. BY 3D PRINTING, STEREOLITHOGRAPHY OR SELECTIVE LASER SINTERING
    • B33Y50/00—Data acquisition or data processing for additive manufacturing
    • B33Y50/02—Data acquisition or data processing for additive manufacturing for controlling or regulating additive manufacturing processes

Definitions

  • the invention relates to a method and a device (“control data generation device”) for generating control data for a device for the additive manufacturing of a component in a manufacturing process in which the component is in the form of component layers in a construction field by selective solidification of building material by means of irradiation of the building material at least one energy beam is built up.
  • the invention further relates to corresponding control data, a method for the additive manufacturing of a component with such control data, a device for additive manufacturing, and a control device for such a device.
  • additive manufacturing processes are those manufacturing processes in which a manufactured product (“component”) is usually built on the basis of digital 3D design data by depositing material (the “construction material”). The structure is usually, but not necessarily, done in layers.
  • 3D printing is often used as a synonym for additive manufacturing; the production of models, samples and prototypes with additive manufacturing processes is often referred to as “rapid prototyping”, the production of tools as “rapid tooling” and flexible Production of series components is referred to as “rapid manufacturing”.
  • a key point is the selective solidification of the building material, with this solidification being achieved in many manufacturing processes with the help of irradiation with radiant energy, e.g. B. electromagnetic radiation, in particular light and / or heat radiation, but possibly also with particle radiation such as. B. electron radiation can take place.
  • radiant energy e.g. B. electromagnetic radiation, in particular light and / or heat radiation, but possibly also with particle radiation such as. B. electron radiation can take place.
  • processes that work with irradiation are “selective laser sintering” or “selective laser melting”.
  • Thin layers of a mostly powdery building material are repeatedly applied one on top of the other and in each layer the building material is selectively solidified by spatially limited irradiation of the areas that are to be part of the component to be manufactured after production in a “welding process” in which the powder grains of the building material are with the help partially or completely melted by the energy introduced locally at this point by the radiation. During cooling, these powder grains then solidify together to form a solid.
  • the energy beam is usually directed along solidification paths over the The construction field is guided and the remelting or solidification of the material in the respective layer takes place in the form of “welding tracks” or “welding beads”, so that ultimately there are a large number of such layers formed from welding tracks in the component. In this way, components with very high quality and breaking strength can now be manufactured.
  • the preferred fill patterns for surfaces are hatching.
  • the energy beam is guided in the form of parallel paths, which leads to the formation of a hatching of parallel welding paths or “solidification paths”.
  • the hatching can consist of lines of the same length or of different lengths, e.g. in the form of a rectangle as a filling area, but with lines or solidification paths that are rotated by 45° to the sides of the rectangle. Areas are often formed in the form of a checkerboard pattern of squares with different rotated fill patterns (which means differently rotated hatching).
  • the filling patterns of component layers lying directly one above the other are arranged in a twisted manner.
  • filling patterns lying one above the other are twisted relative to one another.
  • the construction material is preferably a metal powder or at least a metal-based powder.
  • a powder preferably contains more than 50 percent by weight of metal, in particular more than 60 percent by weight, 70 percent by weight, 80 percent by weight or even more than 90 percent by weight of metal.
  • the construction material can consist of a specific pure metal or include alloy components. However, the invention is not limited to this, but can also be used with other, preferably powdery, construction materials, such as plastics or ceramics or mixtures of the various materials.
  • building material is solidified (in particular selectively) by irradiating the building material with at least one energy beam generated by an irradiation unit of the manufacturing device (thus an energetic beam made of photons or particles, for example a light beam or a electron beam meant).
  • an energy beam generated by an irradiation unit of the manufacturing device
  • the energy beam usually goes a little deeper into the material bed and also reaches underlying, already remelted material from previously applied material layers.
  • the layer information can be prefabricated control data according to the prior art, in particular with regard to the first component layer, or purely geometric data of the individual component layers, in particular their shape.
  • the layer information for the first component layer can also be available as control data with scan vectors and further layer information as purely geometric information for the subsequent component layers.
  • the layer information can be or be based on parallel sections of a CAD-generated component.
  • At least in one solidification area there are a number, in particular a plurality or even a large number, of filling areas with a (each individual) filling pattern.
  • Each solidification area is therefore formed from a number of filling areas that are to be solidified according to the scan vectors, which means that building material is solidified during production and thereby areas with a filling pattern are formed which correspond to the filling patterns of the filling areas.
  • the scan vectors therefore form a predetermined filling pattern, e.g. a hatching, in each filling area.
  • the filling patterns (and thus also some of the filling areas) have scan vectors that are parallel to one another with a predetermined vector spacing, for example a hatching, an arrangement of concentric circles or a contour made up of several parallel lines.
  • a predetermined vector spacing for example a hatching, an arrangement of concentric circles or a contour made up of several parallel lines.
  • parallel does not necessarily refer to the rectified position of straight lines, but can also refer to curved lines.
  • the lines of concentric circles in the sense of the invention would also be parallel to one another.
  • curved structures are often formed with straight scan vectors. But laterally adjacent, curved scan vectors that run at a uniform distance from one another would also be parallel to one another in the sense of the invention.
  • parallel initially only means that the lines run the same way, especially straight lines.
  • the scan vectors have a certain vector distance from each other.
  • vector distance means a distance between adjacent, preferably uninterrupted, scan vectors, which is determined in a direction perpendicular to the position of the scan vectors in the same plane (as distinct from a distance to scan vectors in an adjacent strip or box or in other solidification areas ).
  • the vector distance would correspond to the distance between the centers of two adjacent consolidation paths. It should be noted here that with interrupted hatching, e.g. with holes within an otherwise flat hatching, the hole with its surrounding fill pattern appears as a different one Filling area is considered. The surrounding fill area then has uninterrupted hatching. However, hatching can also be interrupted, at least as long as the scan vectors are still parallel to each other.
  • the first solidification area can, for example, correspond to the lowest component layer, but also to any other component layer, but not the top one, since otherwise the subsequent process steps can no longer be carried out.
  • Two filling areas are now arranged in solidification areas (immediately) one above the other in such a way that the filling patterns are essentially parallel to one another (and are therefore not rotated relative to one another as in the prior art).
  • the entire filling area could be slightly shifted or the filling pattern within the filling area could be.
  • the second filling area also has a filling pattern of scan vectors that are parallel to one another.
  • the scan vectors of the second filling area are not only aligned essentially parallel to the scan vectors of the first filling area, but are also arranged offset from them. This preferably means a lateral offset, which then results in interlocking of the resulting solidification paths during production.
  • the first and second filling areas are of course one above the other, although the edges can be slightly shifted relative to one another due to the offset.
  • the final generation of control data corresponds to the procedure known in the prior art.
  • the scan vectors are translated into control commands that the relevant manufacturing device understands, e.g. G-code.
  • the special feature of the generated control data is that component layers can be generated according to the specially arranged solidification areas with filling patterns that are superimposed according to the invention.
  • the method works particularly advantageously if one uses the steps of the method for arranging the filling areas for a large number of solidification areas (for creating component layers), so that two or more solidification areas are created with filling patterns offset according to the invention and then two or more solidification areas with according to the invention staggered fill patterns are created that are rotated to the underlying ones (so basically steps b) and c) are repeated with each rotated fill pattern.
  • control data according to the invention can be generated, which are used to control a device for additive manufacturing.
  • these control data are characterized by the fact that scan vectors of solidification areas lying directly one above the other are arranged essentially parallel and offset from one another.
  • component layers are created using this control data, which are characterized by the fact that solidification paths of component layers lying directly one above the other are arranged essentially parallel and offset from one another. This suppresses pores within a component, so that the size and/or number of pores is smaller than in conventional components that were only manufactured with twisted filling patterns.
  • the control data also preferably includes further construction instructions such as layer application of building material and in particular the lowering of the construction platform between the production of the component layers. This is implicit in an arrangement of two component layers, since a new component layer can only be created on an already solidified area by applying new building material. Due to this order it is usually necessary to lower the construction platform.
  • the component is passed through layer by layer in a construction field in the form of component layers selective solidification of building material, preferably comprising a metal-based powder, by irradiating the building material with at least one energy beam according to the control data according to the invention.
  • the energy beam is moved over the construction field in accordance with the control data, i.e. along the scan vectors contained in the control data and thus in the form of the specified filling patterns.
  • a control data generation device is used to generate control data according to the invention (according to the method according to the invention) for a device for the additive manufacturing of a component in a manufacturing process in which the component is formed in a construction field in the form of component layers by selective solidification of building material, preferably comprising a metal-based powder. is constructed by irradiating the building material with at least one energy beam.
  • the control data generation device includes the following components:
  • a data interface designed to receive layer information comprising geometric parameters of component layers and/or information on scan vectors of solidification areas, which represent component layers of the component,
  • a device according to the invention (“manufacturing device”) is used for the additive manufacturing of at least one component in an additive manufacturing process. At least it includes
  • the number of layers in which offset filling patterns are provided according to the invention corresponds to the number of underlying layers, i.e. always two, three or more solidification areas directly one above the other with offset filling patterns (with parallel scan vectors) are provided are, then the filling patterns are rotated and again two, three or more solidification areas lying directly one above the other with offset filling patterns (with scan vectors parallel to one another) are provided.
  • the scan vectors of the second filling region in a plane of the second solidification region are shifted to the scan vectors of the first filling region in a transverse direction relative to a longitudinal extent of the scan vectors of the first filling region.
  • the corresponding vector distances of the filling patterns of the filling areas are preferably identical. It is preferred that a displacement distance in the transverse direction is smaller than the vector distance between two scan vectors. This displacement distance is preferably in the range between 90% and 10% of the vector distance and particularly preferably in the range between 45% and 55% of the vector distance.
  • filling areas in superimposed solidification areas, filling areas essentially cover one another over the entire surface.
  • Filling areas with an identical shape and size preferably cover each other over essentially the entire surface.
  • the term “substantially” means that at least 80%, in particular at least 90%, of the areas cover each other.
  • the filling patterns within the filling areas are preferably shifted relative to one another in order to achieve the required offset of the scan vectors.
  • filling areas are preferably arranged offset from one another, preferably with filling areas with a similar or identical filling pattern being displaced from one another along the scan vectors by a predetermined displacement distance.
  • filling patterns of overlapping filling areas differ from one another with respect to an offset longitudinally and/or transversely to their scan vectors, and/or with respect to a rotation of their scan vectors.
  • a displacement takes place in the transverse direction and in the longitudinal direction, the displacement distance of which is in particular smaller than a diagonal extension of the first filling region.
  • the displacement distance is preferably in the range between 90% and 10% of the diagonal extent, and particularly preferably in the range between 45% and 55% of the diagonal extent. It is particular preferred that the displacement distance is greater than 10% of the diagonal extent, in particular greater than 20%, in particular greater than 30%, in particular greater than 40%. On the other hand, it is particularly preferred that the displacement distance is less than 90% of the diagonal extension, in particular less than 80%, in particular less than 70%, in particular less than 60%.
  • the control data is generated in such a way that the energy beam is adjusted so that it solidifies an area deeper than the thickness of the last component layer when solidifying along the scan vectors.
  • This depth of solidification is preferably at least twice, more preferably at least three times, particularly preferably at least four times the thickness of the last component layer.
  • solidification has a depth extent greater than 0.05 mm, in particular greater than 100 pm and/or less than 300 pm.
  • a particular advantage of the invention is the reduction of porosity in a component.
  • the number and size of pores should be small to ensure high quality of the component.
  • the values for the size G and/or the number A of the pores can be specified in the form of parameter values, e.g. as a vector or value field (G, A). It should be noted that the “comparative measure” does not indicate a ratio of a comparison, but rather represents a measure of a comparison.
  • a “quality measure” can be determined as a comparison value, e.g. in the form of a difference or a quotient of their comparison dimensions.
  • a standard comparison dimension can be used and this can be compared with a comparison dimension of a test specimen. The deviation of the comparison measure from the standard comparison measure (the quality measure) then results in the quality of the test specimen.
  • the layer information that is initially made available to the method can contain predetermined vector distances of the scan vectors and generally predetermined scan speeds. Prior knowledge about the quality improvement of the invention could be included in this layer information in advance, thereby achieving faster production. However, the method could also modify predetermined vector distances of the scan vectors or scan speeds in the layer information provided or generate new (possibly modified) layer information in order to achieve an increase in process efficiency while maintaining the same quality (compared to production without using the method according to the invention). According to a preferred method, a quality measure is determined from a comparison of pores of test specimens. This procedure includes the following steps:
  • the quality measure is a measure that provides a comparison of the quality of a test specimen.
  • the reference test body represents the reference for quality (and provides the “standard comparison measure” mentioned above).
  • the quality is derived from the comparative dimensions, i.e. the pores. The larger and more frequent pores are, the worse the quality.
  • the target test body is produced with filling areas offset according to the invention and the reference test body with successively twisted filling areas.
  • the (optional) experimental test specimens are produced according to the target test specimens, but with varied scanning speed or vector distance. Basically it can Scanning speed for different experimental test specimens can simply be increased successively or the vector distance can be successively increased.
  • Figure 4 shows an example of a solidification area with different filling areas
  • the control device 30 is, here z. B. via a bus 60 or another data connection, coupled to a terminal 40 with a display or the like. An operator can use this terminal 40 to control the control device 30 and thus the entire laser sintering device 1, e.g. B. by transmitting process control data PS.
  • the layer information Sl contains data about solidification areas V1, V2, V3, V4, which represent component layers B of the component 2, the solidification areas V1, V2, V3, V4 being formed from a number of filling areas F1, F2, F3, F4 . Furthermore, the layer information Sl includes data on scan vectors S, according to which the filling areas F1, F2, F3, F4 are to be solidified. The scan vectors S in each filling area F1, F2, F3, F4 form a predetermined filling pattern FM, with at least some of the filling patterns FM having mutually parallel scan vectors S with a predetermined vector spacing.
  • the solidification areas V1, V2, V3, V4 are therefore not solidified areas, but generally represent a large number of filling areas F1, F2, F3, F4, with each filling area in turn generally comprising a large number of scan vectors S, which are in are arranged in the form of a fill pattern (often in the form of hatching). If an energy beam 22 is guided along these scan vectors S over a layer of building material 13, the building material 13 is solidified there in the form of solidification tracks with the corresponding filling patterns F1, F2, F3, F4.
  • the solidification areas V1, V2, V3, V4 represent the component layers B
  • the scan vectors S represent the solidification paths of the component layers B
  • the filling areas F1, F2, F3, F4 represent individual areas of the component layers B with a uniform filling pattern FM.
  • control data generating device 34 includes a control module 36.
  • This control module 36 is designed to select a first filling area F1 for a first solidification area V1 and then to create a second filling area F2 for a second solidification area V2 resting on the first solidification area V1.
  • Each filling area F1, F2 has a filling pattern FM made of scan vectors S that are parallel to one another.
  • the control module can also be designed to generate the first filling area F1 (and also further filling areas) of the first solidification area V1, in particular in the case that the layer information Sl exclusively includes geometric data for the component 2.
  • the scan vectors S of the second filling area F2 are aligned essentially (preferably exactly) parallel to the scan vectors S of the first filling area F1 and are arranged offset from them. This means that later the solidification paths in the resulting component layers B do not run twisted relative to one another, but rather parallel and offset from one another. Only when at least two solidification areas V1, V2 have such “untwisted” filling areas F1, F2 can a rotation of filling areas F3, F4 or their filling patterns FM take place, in which case it is also preferred to have at least two solidification areas after one rotation and before the next rotation V3, V4 should be provided with filling areas F3, F4 that are “untwisted” relative to each other, which can continue over the entire component height.
  • control data generating device 34 includes a control data generating unit 37, which is designed to generate control data PS in such a way that the additive manufacturing device 1 can generate component layers B corresponding to the solidification areas V1, V2, V3, V4 using this control data PS.
  • control data generating device 34 is implemented on an external computer unit, for example the terminal 40, and supplies process control data PS with correspondingly appropriate control data PS in advance, with which the device 1 is controlled in such a way that the intended one is in the desired areas of the component mode is achieved.
  • the internal control data generating device 34 present in the control device 30 could also be dispensed with.
  • the present invention is not limited to such a manufacturing device 1. It can be applied to other methods for the generative or additive production of a three-dimensional object by layer-by-layer application and selective solidification of a building material, with an energy beam being delivered to the building material to be solidified for solidification.
  • the irradiation device can not only be a laser, as described here, but any device could be used with which energy can be selectively applied to or in the form of wave or particle radiation the construction material can be brought.
  • another light source, an electron beam, etc. could be used instead of a laser.
  • the building material is scanned layer by layer by the energy beam 22 at locations that correspond to the cross sections of the objects in the respective layer.
  • FIGS 2 and 3 show a design of filling areas F1, F2, F3, F4 of different solidification areas V1, V2, V3, V4 with filling patterns FM.
  • the solidification areas V1, V2, V3, V4 lie directly above one another and would result in four successive component layers B during production.
  • Each fill pattern FM is a hatching (also referred to as “hatching”) of scan vectors S, each with the same vector spacing.
  • the scan vectors S are not continuous, but form stripes that abut one another at strip boundaries G (indicated by dotted lines) and overlap slightly with each other.
  • Figure 2 shows a design according to the prior art. From left to right, a first filling area F1 in a first solidification area V1 is covered by a second filling area F2 in a second solidification area V2 with a rotated filling pattern FM. This is followed by a third and fourth solidification area V3, V3 with further rotated filling patterns FM in the corresponding filling areas F3, F4.
  • the rotation in this example is 90° and in practice it can basically assume any angle.
  • Figure 3 shows a design according to an exemplary embodiment of the invention.
  • a first filling area F1 in a first solidification area V1 is covered by a second filling area F2 in a second solidification area V2 with a non-rotated filling pattern FM.
  • the filling patterns FM cover each other offset from one another, with the underlying scan vectors S of the first filling area F1 being indicated by dash-dotted lines in the second filling area F2.
  • the offset occurs both transversely to the longitudinal direction of the scan vectors S and in the longitudinal direction across strip boundaries G.
  • fill patterns FM have been rotated within fill areas F1, F2, F3, F4. It is also possible that the fill areas F1, F2, F3, F4 are rotated together with their fill pattern FM.
  • Figure 4 shows an example of a solidification area V1 with different filling areas F1, F2, F3, F4.
  • Figure 5 shows a block diagram of a possible process sequence of an exemplary embodiment of a method according to the invention for generating control data PS for a device 1 for the additive manufacturing of a component 2 in a manufacturing process in which the component 2 in the form of component layers B in a construction field 8 by selective solidification Building material 13, for example comprising a metal-based powder, is built up by irradiating the building material 13 with at least one energy beam 22.
  • Building material 13 for example comprising a metal-based powder
  • step I layer information Sl about solidification areas V1, V2, V3, V4 is generated or obtained.
  • the solidification areas V1, V2, V3, V4 represent component layers B of the component 2 and are each formed here from a plurality of filling areas F1, F2, F3, F4.
  • the layer information Sl includes data on scan vectors S, according to which the filling areas F1, F2, F3, F4 are to be solidified, the scan vectors S forming a predetermined filling pattern FM and at least part of the filling patterns in each filling area F1, F2, F3, F4 FM has mutually parallel scan vectors S with a predetermined vector distance (see e.g. Figure 2).
  • the layer information can certainly be control data according to the prior art, which is modified by the method into control data PS according to the invention. However, they can also only include geometric data of the component 2 or its component layers.
  • step II a first filling region F1 with a filling pattern FM is selected or generated from mutually parallel scan vectors S for a first solidification region V1.
  • the selection or generation can successively extend to further filling areas F2, F3, F4 and theoretically affect all filling areas F1, F2, F3, F4 of the solidification area V1, with the subsequent steps then also for the filling areas F1, F2, F3, F4 Overlying solidification areas V2, V3, V4 take place either separately from one another or parallel to one another.
  • the following explanations can therefore also extend to further filling areas F2, F3, F4, but for the sake of clarity they are only continued here using the example of a filling area F2.
  • This step could concern the selection of the left filling area F1 of Figure 3.
  • a second filling region F2 is created with a filling pattern FM consisting of mutually parallel scan vectors S for a second solidification region V2 resting on the first solidification region V1, the scan vectors S of the second filling region F2 being aligned substantially parallel to the scan vectors S of the first filling region F1 and are arranged offset from these.
  • the arrows in the corresponding box indicate that the offset can take place transversely and/or longitudinally to the longitudinal direction of the scan vectors S.
  • the offset can, for example, be exactly half of a vector distance of scan vectors S. This step could result in the second filling area F2 from the left in FIG.
  • step IV a third filling region F3 is created from mutually parallel scan vectors S for a third solidification region V3.
  • This third filling area F3 lies above the first filling area F1 and covers it.
  • the filling pattern FM of the third filling area F3 is twisted to the filling pattern FM of the first filling area V3. This step could result in the third filling area F2 from the left in FIG.
  • step III The dashed arrow pointing back to step III indicates that this procedure (parallel arrangement, then rotating) can be repeated as desired.
  • control data PS is then generated in such a way that the additive manufacturing device 1 can use this control data PS to generate component layers B corresponding to the solidification areas V1, V2, V3, V4.
  • This process provides control data PS, which can be used to create components 2 with very low porosity and therefore very high component quality.
  • the method can be modified in such a way that when generating the control data PS, the scanning speed and/or the vector spacing of the scan vectors S is increased and thus the production time is reduced. Although this deteriorates the quality of the components, the higher quality achieved by the process means that it is within the tolerable range or in the desired range.
  • Figure 6 shows a block diagram of a possible process sequence of an exemplary embodiment of a method according to the invention for increasing the process speed.
  • a quality measure is first determined from a comparison of pores of test specimens and then the control data PS is modified accordingly.
  • step la a target test body TZ with control data PS from a method according to the invention and a reference test body TR with conventional control data PS (without an offset arrangement of scan vectors S according to step III of the method) are manufactured.
  • step IIla parameter values for parameters of pores P of the target test body TZ and the reference test body TR are determined using the same measuring method, the parameter values of the pores P including in particular their size and/or their number.
  • a comparison measure VM of the determined parameter values of the target test body TZ and the reference test body TR is created, for example a ratio of the sizes or the number of pores P.
  • Optional steps are indicated below with dashed arrows in which experimental test bodies TV were produced with control data PS according to the invention, in which the layer information Sl was modified in such a way that a vector distance of scan vectors S of the filling areas F1, F2, F3, F4 to one another and/or a scanning speed for these scan vectors S is increased.
  • This example assumes a modification of shift information.
  • the layer information can also be generated, with the following comparisons being carried out analogously with the original and the generated layer information. Based on these experimental test specimens TV, the comparison dimension VM is now determined again in comparison with the reference test specimen TR, but this time in relation to the modifications of the layer information Sl.
  • step IVa the quality measure Q is then determined based on at least one comparison measure VM. This can be directly the comparison measure from step Illa or comparison measures from the optional steps.
  • control data PS is then generated based on the quality measure Q, so that the device 1 for additive manufacturing can generate component layers B with this control data PS.
  • the scanning speed and/or the vector distance between two scan vectors S are dimensioned such that a predetermined component quality is not exceeded, with the quality measure Q indicating whether the expected component quality is still within a tolerable range or not.
  • the aforementioned optional steps can be used to estimate using the comparison measure VM whether the quality of an experimental test specimen TV corresponds to the quality of the reference test specimen TR and exactly the parameters for the control data PS can be selected that are used during the production of this Experimental test body TV templates.

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L'invention concerne un procédé de génération de données de commande (PS) pour un dispositif (1) de fabrication additive d'un composant (2) pendant une opération de fabrication, au cours de laquelle le composant (2), dans un champ de construction (8), est construit sous la forme de couches de composant (B) par solidification sélective d'un matériau de construction (13), comprenant de préférence une poudre à base de métal, par irradiation du matériau de construction (13) avec au moins un faisceau d'énergie (22), le procédé comprenant les étapes consistant : a) à obtenir ou produire des informations de couche (SI) comprenant des paramètres géométriques de couches de composant et/ou des informations relatives à des vecteurs de balayage de régions de solidification (V1, V2, V3, V4) qui représentent des couches de composant (B) du composant (2) ; b) à sélectionner ou à générer une première zone de remplissage (F1) pour une première zone de solidification (V1), cette zone de remplissage (F1) présentant un motif de remplissage (FM) de vecteurs de balayage (S) parallèles les uns aux autres avec un espacement vectoriel prédéfini ; c) à créer une seconde zone de remplissage (F2) présentant un motif de remplissage (FM) de vecteurs de balayage (S) parallèles les uns aux autres pour une seconde zone de solidification (V2) située sur la première zone de solidification (V1), les vecteurs de balayage (S) de la seconde zone de remplissage (F2) étant orientés sensiblement parallèlement aux vecteurs de balayage (S) de la première zone de remplissage (F1) et étant disposés de manière décalée par rapport à ceux-ci ; d) à générer des données de commande (PS) de telle sorte que le dispositif de fabrication additive (1) peut générer des couches de composant (B) correspondant aux régions de solidification (V1, V2, V3, V4) à l'aide de ces données de commande (PS). L'invention concerne en outre des données de commande correspondantes, un procédé de fabrication additive, un dispositif de génération de données de commande, un dispositif de commande et un dispositif de fabrication.
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