18496668. RECURSIVELY MAPPED GEOMETRY OF ADDITIVELY MANUFACTURED PART (THE BOEING COMPANY)
RECURSIVELY MAPPED GEOMETRY OF ADDITIVELY MANUFACTURED PART
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Michael C. Elford of Brisbane AU
RECURSIVELY MAPPED GEOMETRY OF ADDITIVELY MANUFACTURED PART
This abstract first appeared for US patent application 18496668 titled 'RECURSIVELY MAPPED GEOMETRY OF ADDITIVELY MANUFACTURED PART
Original Abstract Submitted
A method of generating a recursively mapped infill geometry for an additively manufacturable part. The method includes receiving a base unit cell mesh including a plurality of base quadrilateral elements. In each of a plurality of iterations, the method further includes receiving a target unit cell mesh including target quadrilateral elements. In each iteration, the method further includes generating a target hexahedral unit cell mesh including target hexahedral elements by extruding the target quadrilateral elements. In each of the iterations, the method further includes generating a recursive supercell mesh by mapping each of the base quadrilateral elements onto a target hexahedral element. If the current iteration is not a final iteration, the method further includes setting the recursive supercell mesh as the base unit cell mesh used in a subsequent iteration. The method further includes outputting a recursively mapped unit cell mesh including a final recursive supercell mesh.