Analysis of Design Guidelines for Automated Order Acceptance in Additive Manufacturing

In recent times, guideline catalogs for the design of additively manufactured parts have been developed. However, the analysis of a part's geometry with regard to these guidelines still requires a lot of manual work and expert knowledge. This paper introduces different algorithmic approaches, which automate the analysis and assessment of a part's geometry. Based on a preselection of guidelines from existing design catalogs for selective laser melting and sintering, this paper presents algorithms to automatically check the manufacturability of a part. The algorithms use the triangulated surface geometry (STL) of a part. They are implemented within a web-based platform for the automated order acceptance of additive manufactured parts. The evaluation compares the different algorithms regarding their efficiency and effectiveness.