Abstract: The present disclosure presents various additive manufacturing systems and methods. One such method comprises obtaining a build file containing instructions to additively manufacture a component; generating at least one point field; computing a spatter exposure metric from the at least one point field to quantify a risk of spatter induced porosity throughout a build; and updating the at least one point field with the spatter exposure metric computed. Computing the spatter exposure metric may include selecting at least one principal point from the at least one point field; determining at least one neighborhood using an additive manufacturing model search algorithm for the at least one principal point; and integrating a pyriform kernel function for the at least one principal point and the at least one neighborhood. Other systems and methods are also disclosed.

Abstract: A method of generating a model for additive manufacturing. The method includes obtaining a build file containing instructions to additively manufacture a component and generating at least one point field. The method also includes computing at least one process metric from the at least one point field by selecting at least one principal point from the point field, determining at least one neighborhood using an additive manufacturing model search algorithm for the at least one principal point, and integrating at least one additive manufacturing model kernel function for the at least one principal point and the at least one neighborhood. The method can then update the at least one point field with the at least one process metric computed.