With Laser Beam Melting (LBM) technology, complex metallic parts can be created without material waste. By using LBM, new and impressive applications were already realized, e.g. in the aerospace industry. However, since the process is actually a micro welding process, thermo-mechanical phenomena always play an important role during the process: on the one hand due to the melting of the material, the heat must be able to dissipate, on the other hand the force from the contraction of the weld paths must be compensated. Thus, for most parts additional support geometries are added to the part to hold the temperature constant and the part stuck to the build plate. Apart from the costly manual process of support- generation, this results in additional material usage compared to t

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