Additive Bed Mesh Probe
The probe walks the levelling route across the build plate and every point it touches comes up as a measured ring, the oldest fading as the walk comes round again.
The probe walks the levelling route across the build plate and every point it touches comes up as a measured ring, the oldest fading as the walk comes round again.
Loose powder runs out of the build box in two streams, through the shaking sieve and down into the reclaim hopper below.
Argon streams drift across the build chamber over the part while the oxygen reading hunts down towards its threshold tick and leaks back up.
A laser melt track runs the hatch vectors of a cross-section, jumping between scan lines as the layer scale steps alongside it.
A nozzle traverses the build and lays one bead per pass while the plate steps down a layer pitch, so the stack grows without the top of the part ever moving.
The melt pool width trace scrolls past its tolerance band with each excursion ringed, and the pool at the top widens and narrows with the value reaching the readout rule.
A recoater blade sweeps across the powder bed and a fresh layer fills in behind it, the blade lifting and returning before the next pass.
The head lays a bead on one island, pulls the filament back so nothing strings, hops the gap along the travel path and primes again on the other side.
A slicing plane scrubs up and down the tapered solid while the section panel beside it scales to the contour cut at that height.
The filament spool turns and pays its coil out through the guide to the extruder gear, the strand running on while the remaining-length scale sits at a third.
Support tines snap off the underside of a finished part one at a time and drop into the bin, leaving witness marks behind as the next one starts to go.
Branching support columns grow off the build plate to meet the sloped underside of the part, a new one starting as the oldest fades back to its planned outline.
The part feeds under an oscillating finishing head, arriving with its layer-line ripple on one side and leaving as a flat face on the other.
The panel exposes a cross-section through the vat film, the platform lifts to peel the cured layer free and resin flows back before the next exposure.
The free corner of the part creeps up off the build plate and the deviation marker climbs past its limit tick until bed heat pulls the corner flat again.