PART ORIENTATION AND SEPARATION TO REDUCE PROCESS COSTS IN ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING

Abstract Additive manufacturing offers great potential in geometric design through the layer-by-layer production of components. This is often used development additively manufactured components to make lighter. An even greater reduction mass possible if several are combined into a more complex component. However, as complexity increases, so do costs, due higher demand for supporting structure, reworking and longer time. Especially components, which poor use space available additive system, component separation can be useful way reducing costs. Therefore, procedure automated presented, determines an optimal cutting plane with respect The presented evaluated using two exemplary where costs up 54 % could achieved.