Abstract: Disclosed is a method for providing a control command set for an additive manufacturing device. The method includes providing a parameter set consisting of a number of parameters, and a construction rule, which is suitable for describing at least one section of the object by the parameter set geometrically as a number of linear or flat elements in space; generating a computer-based layer model of the section of the object by determining, for each layer, the position and shape of a cross-section of the section of the object within the layer, generating a control command set for an additive manufacturing device by which the production of the section of the object is implemented on the basis of the layer model.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for the additive manufacture of components (2), wherein a pulverulent or wire-shaped metal construction material is deposited on a platform (4) in layers, melted using a primary heating device (7), in particular using a laser or electron beam (14), and is heated using an induction heating device (8), which has an alternating voltage supply device (9) with an induction generator (16) and at least one induction coil (10) which can be moved above the platform (4). The induction generator (16) is controlled such that the induction generator is driven with a different output at different specified positions of the at least one induction coil (10). The invention additionally relates to a device, to a control method, and to a storage medium.

Abstract: A control method serves for controlling at least one solidification device of an additive manufacturing device for manufacturing a three-dimensional object by means of an additive layer build method in which at least one object is manufactured by repeated application of a layer of a building material, to a build area and by selective solidification of the applied layer at positions corresponding to a cross-section of the object to be manufactured, wherein a gas having a plurality of flow directions which essentially are not aligned in the same direction flows across the build area.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method for providing a control command set for an additive manufacturing device. The method includes providing a parameter set consisting of a number of parameters, and a construction rule, which is suitable for describing at least one section of the object by the parameter set geometrically as a number of linear or flat elements in space; generating a computer-based layer model of the section of the object by determining, for each layer, the position and shape of a cross-section of the section of the object within the layer, generating a control command set for an additive manufacturing device by which the production of the section of the object is implemented on the basis of the layer model.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method and an associated device, the method including at least the following steps: applying a layer of powder to a component platform in the region of a building and joining area; locally melting and/or sintering the powder layer, wherein, in the region of the building and joining area, at least one high-energy beam is moved in relation to the component platform, selectively impinging the powder layer, at least part of which at least one high-energy beam and the component platform are moved in relation to one another, in the form of a parallel arrangement arranged along a linear feed direction; lowering the component platform by a predetermined layer thickness in a lowering direction; and repeating the above-mentioned steps until the component region is completed.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for additive production of a component layer of a component including the steps of: generating at least one layer from a powdery component material in the region of a structuring and joining zone; subdividing model data of the layer into virtual sub-regions by a control device; selecting at least one of the virtual sub-regions by the control device; localized heating of at least one heating region in a real sub-region of the layer corresponding with the selected virtual sub-region by a heating device; verifying whether a temperature of the layer has, in a predetermined inspection region, a predetermined minimum temperature; and localized solidifying of the layer in a predetermined solidifying region by selective irradiation by at least one energy beam of an energy source, if the layer has the predetermined minimum temperature in the inspection region.

Abstract: A three-dimensional object is manufactured by selective sintering by means of electromagnetic radiation, wherein the powder comprises a polymer or copolymer having at least one of the following structural characteristics: (i) at least one branching group in the backbone chain of the polymer or copolymer, provided that in case of the use of polyaryletherketones (PAEK) the branching group is an aromatic structural unit in the backbone chain of the polymer or copolymer; (ii) modification of at least one end group of the backbone chain of the polymer or copolymer; (iii) at least one bulky group within the backbone chain of the polymer of copolymer, provided that in case of the use of polyaryletherketones (PAEK) the bulky group is not selected from the group consisting of phenylene, biphenylene, naphthalene and CH2- or isopropylidene-linked aromatics; (iv) at least one aromatic group non-linearly linking the backbone chain.

Abstract: The invention relates to a device (10) for generative production of at least one component area of a component (12), in particular of a component (12) of a flow machine. Therein, the device (10) can include at least one lowerable component platform (16) with at least one construction and joining zone (20) for receiving at least one powder layer of a component material, at least one heating device (24, 28) movable relative to the component platform (16) and at least one radiation source for generating at least one high-energy beam (22), by means of which the powder layer can be locally melted and/or sintered to a component layer in the area of the construction and joining zone (20), as well as at least one suction and/or gas supply device (36) disposed on the heating device (24, 28). However, the device (10) can also include at least one coater (14).

Abstract: A three-dimensional object is manufactured by selective sintering by means of electromagnetic radiation, wherein the powder comprises a polymer or copolymer having at least one of the following structural characteristics: (i) at least one branching group in the backbone chain of the polymer or copolymer, provided that in case of the use of polyaryletherketones (PAEK) the branching group is an aromatic structural unit in the backbone chain of the polymer or copolymer; (ii) modification of at least one end group of the backbone chain of the polymer or copolymer; (iii) at least one bulky group within the backbone chain of the polymer of copolymer, provided that in case of the use of polyaryletherketones (PAEK) the bulky group is not selected from the group consisting of phenylene, biphenylene, naphthalene and CH2- or isopropylidene-linked aromatics; (iv) at least one aromatic group non-linearly linking the backbone chain.

Abstract: A three-dimensional object is manufactured by selective sintering by means of electromagnetic radiation, wherein the powder comprises a polymer or copolymer having at least one of the following structural characteristics: (i) at least one branching group in the backbone chain of the polymer or copolymer, provided that in case of the use of polyaryletherketones (PAEK) the branching group is an aromatic structural unit in the backbone chain of the polymer or copolymer; (ii) modification of at least one end group of the backbone chain of the polymer or copolymer; (iii) at least one bulky group within the backbone chain of the polymer of copolymer, provided that in case of the use of polyaryletherketones (PAEK) the bulky group is not selected from the group consisting of phenylene, biphenylene, naphthalene and CH2— or isopropylidene-linked aromatics; (iv) at least one aromatic group non-linearly linking the backbone chain.

Abstract: The invention relates to a device (10) for generative production of at least one component area of a component (12), in particular of a component (12) of a flow machine. Therein, the device (10) can include at least one lowerable component platform (16) with at least one construction and joining zone (20) for receiving at least one powder layer of a component material, at least one heating device (24, 28) movable relative to the component platform (16) and at least one radiation source for generating at least one high-energy beam (22), by means of which the powder layer can be locally melted and/or sintered to a component layer in the area of the construction and joining zone (20), as well as at least one suction and/or gas supply device (36) disposed on the heating device (24, 28). However, the device (10) can also include at least one coater (14).

Abstract: The invention relates to a device (10) for generative production of at least one component area of a component (12), in particular of a component (12) of a flow machine, wherein the device (10) includes at least one coater (14) for applying at least one powder layer of a component material to at least one construction and joining zone (20) of at least one lowerable component platform (16), wherein the coater (14) is movable relative to the component platform (16); and at least one radiation source for generating at least one high-energy beam (22), by means of which the powder layer can be locally melted and/or sintered to a component layer in the area of the construction and joining zone (20). In addition, at least one heating device (24, 28) is disposed on the coater (14).

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for additively manufacturing at least one component region of a component, in particular of a turbine or compressor component, said method comprising at least the following steps: applying a layer of powder (10a-c) to a component platform in the region of a building and joining area; locally melting and/or sintering the powder layer (10a-c), wherein, in the region of the building and joining area, at least one high-energy beam is moved in relation to the component platform, selectively impinging the powder layer (10a-c), at least part of which at least one high-energy beam and the component platform are moved in relation to one another, in the form of a parallel arrangement (16) arranged along a linear feed direction (12); lowering the component platform by a predetermined layer thickness in a lowering direction; and repeating the above-mentioned steps unfil the component region is completed.

Abstract: A method for a layer-wise manufacturing of a three-dimensional object has a first step of providing a layer of a material in powder form or a liquid material on a support or a layer that has already been solidified at selected positions previously and a second step of directing a focussed photon or particle beam (8?) selectively at selected positions of the layer. In the second step, the photon or particle beam is selected such that it brings about a change of the absorption of the material when hitting the layer. After the termination of the second step, a third step is carried out, in which the layer is irradiated by means of electromagnetic radiation (18?) such that the material is homogenously solidified at those positions of the layer that correspond to the cross-section of the object to be formed.

Abstract: An apparatus for manufacturing a three-dimensional object (3) by applying and solidifying a powdery constituent material (3a) layer by layer at positions corresponding to the respective cross sectional area of the object (3) in the respective layer by exposure to a laser (7) or another energy source comprises a heating or cooling element (22) supplying heat to or removing heat away from the constituent material (3a) applied layer by layer. For smoothing the temperature distribution, an intermediate layer (23) having a highly anisotropic heat conductivity is provided.

Abstract: A three-dimensional object is manufactured from a powder of polymer material by selective sintering process by means of electromagnetic radiation of the powder, wherein the powder comprises a preselected polymer or copolymer and is subjected to selective sintering such that the manufactured three-dimensional object has a final crystallinity which is in such a range that the balance of properties, in particular mechanical properties including Young's modulus, tensile strength and elongation at break, is improved.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a frame (1) of a device for manufacturing a three-dimensional object (3). The device manufactures the three-dimensional object (3) by solidifying a powder or liquid building material (3a) layer by layer at locations in each layer corresponding to the cross-section of the object (3) to be manufactured in a building space. The building space is defined by the frame (1) and a platform (2) inside the frame (1), wherein the frame (1) comprises at the inner side facing the building space glass ceramic plates.

Abstract: By a temper treatment a polyaryletherketone powder is processed such that it is particularly suited for the use in a method for a layer-wise manufacturing of a three-dimensional object. To this effect the powder is tempered at a temperature that is at least 20° C. above the glass transition temperature for at least 30 minutes before it is used as building material.

Abstract: By a temper treatment a polyaryletherketone powder is processed such that it is particularly suited for the use in a method for a layer-wise manufacturing of a three-dimensional object. To this effect the powder is tempered at a temperature that is at least 20° C. above the glass transition temperature for at least 30 minutes before it is used as building material.

Abstract: By a temper treatment a polyaryletherketone powder is processed such that it is particularly suited for the use in a method for a layer-wise manufacturing of a three-dimensional object. To this effect the powder is tempered at a temperature that is at least 20° C. above the glass transition temperature for at least 30 minutes before it is used as building material.