3DEXPERIENCE ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING
A Virtual Workplace to Create & Validate 3D Printing Programs
Industrial-scale additive manufacturing is a growing trend with the potential to revolutionize many industries, but it needs to be reliable, predictable, and cost-effective.
3DEXPERIENCE ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING tools provide easy-to-use machine programming workflows that optimize material usage, improve part quality, and speed up the printing process. Users can save and reuse process standards that ensure consistency and quality across the company.
“We chose a
3D
EXPERIENCE Works Simulation solution because it’s cloud-based, which supports our remotely located engineering organization, works seamlessly with SOLIDWORKS design data, and incorporates the Abaqus Explicit solver, which is best suited for the types of simulation studies that we need to conduct on our parts, which can involve hyperelasticity, creep, fatigue, and contact.”
– Thomas Morgan
Design Engineer
HIGHLIGHTS
Validate Before You Print
A virtual manufacturing environment allows programmers to predict the quality of the printed parts and the printing process before commiting real-world resources.
Validate material choices and laser parameters; ensure laser paths respect the physical layout of machines, accessories, and tooling; simulate print distortions and generate compensating geometry.
With these capabilities, companies can avoid unexpected and costly production delays.
Maximize Resource Utilization
3D EXPERIENCE additive programming solutions provide the tools to achieve faster prints with less waste. A wide range of material deposition operations and strategies minimize non-value-added motion. Advanced 3D nesting capabilities ensure optimal use of powder bed space with fewer supports.
When combined with a "digital validation first" approach to 3D printing, companies can save tremendous amounts of time and money.
Program Quickly and Easily
- Program single and multi-laser systems in a convenient and familiar 3D EXPERIENCE interface
- Automatically generate part placements, part orientations, and support structures
- Easily modify geometry with boolean operations or complex surface manipulation
Leverage Intellectual Property
Users can define and store machining processes as dedicated templates, and keep them in catalogs for future use.
By automating, standardizing, and reusing company intellectual property, gains to productivity and machining-work standardization become significant.
Rapidly Respond to Changes
The 3D EXPERIENCE Platform provides native associativity between machining programs and engineering and manufacturing data.
Companies can better manage concurrent engineering and manufacturing, shorten the design-to-manufacturing cycle, rapidly program for design changes and variations, and respond effectively to engineering or manufacturing changes.
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CASE STUDY
Learn how Morgan Polymer Seals accelerated their seal development to meet electric vehicle market demand with 3D EXPERIENCE Works Simulation.
3DEXPERIENCE ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING Products
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Powder Bed Machine Programmer
- Prepare, program, and validate the additive manufacturing process for powder bed 3D printers.
- Key Features:
- Printing process configuration and validation
- Multi-laser path programming and management
- Automatic part placement and orientation
- Automatic support generation
- Printed part validation and geometry rework
- Time and cost prediction
- Simplified user interface for non-expert users
- Save and reuse best practices - Typically used by:
Powder bed fusion researchers and machine programmers -
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Powder Bed Machine Specialist
- Prepare, program, and validate the additive manufacturing process -- including part distortion simulation -- for powder bed 3D printers.
- Key Features:
- Printing process configuration and validation
- Multi-laser path programming and management
- Automatic part placement and orientation
- Automatic support generation
- Printed part validation and geometry rework
- Printed part distortion simulation and geometry compensation
- Time and cost prediction
- Simplified user interface for non-expert users
- Save and reuse best practices - Typically used by:
Powder bed fusion researchers and machine programmers concerned about part distortion -
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Material Deposition Machine Programmer
- Set up, program, analyze, and re-use additive manufacturing processes covering direct energy deposition and material extrusion techniques.
- Key Features:
- Virtual validation of the additive process
- Printing strategies can include contouring, hatching, hexagonal, neutral line, curve following, and 5-axis activities
- Create laser paths and adjust parameters such as power and melting depth
- Re-use best practice templates for laser paths or nozzle motions
- Prepare printed parts to support downstream applications like machining or wire EDM
- Add labels on parts for traceability
- Modify surfaces for complex shapes or hybrid parts
- Includes a library of 1700 robots - Typically used by:
Material deposition researchers and machine programmers -
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