Desktop Metal, Inc.
Systems and Methods for Fabricating Components

Abstract:

A method of printing an object using additive manufacturing includes depositing an amount of powder onto a print bed, spreading the amount of powder into a layer, depositing, in a first direction, a fluid configured to bind the powder onto at least a portion of the layer in a cross-sectional shape of the object to form the object, and depositing the fluid configured to bind the powder onto at least a portion of the layer adjacent to a leading edge of the cross-sectional shape of the object in the first direction to form at least one buffer element upstream of the cross-sectional shape of the object in the first direction.