Fig. 6
From: Thermo-mechanical simulations of powder bed fusion processes: accuracy and efficiency
Schematic illustration of both considered examples, where gray represents the solid building platform, red the applied powder layers and blue the geometry to be manufactured, e.g. the wall (a) and open rectangular profile (b), respectively. For the wall, the evaluation line Y denoted by the dotted orange line runs parallel to the y-axis on top of the second last layer. Point A is on top of the second layer in the middle of the wall. For the rectangular profile, point D is located at the end of the first scanning line on top of the first layer