ANSYS Additive Manufacturing

ANSYS offers a complete simulation workflow for additive manufacturing (AM) that allows you to transition your R&D efforts for AM into a successful manufacturing operation, offering both rapid and high fidelity results while enabling you to exploit design freedoms through topology optimisation and performance validation.

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ANSYS’ best-in-class solution for additive manufacturing enables simulation at every step in your AM process. It will help you optimise material configurations and machine and parts setup before you begin to print. As a result, you’ll greatly reduce — and potentially eliminate — the physical process of trial-and- error testing.

Through a structured workflow, ANSYS Additive Manufacturing simulation tools will help you:

Design for AM (DfAM) utilizing topology optimization and lattice structures
Conduct design validation
Improve build setup — with additional design features for part manufacturing, including part orientation and automatic generation of physics-based support structures
Simulate print process
Explore and gain greater understanding of materials

ANSYS Additive Solutions include a wide range of capabilities depending on whether the Additive Suite or Additive Print configuration below is chosen.

STL File and Geometry Manipulation
Topology Optimisation
Structural & Thermal Analysis and Design Validation
Multiple Additive Process Simulation Solvers – for a choice of rapid guidance results and high fidelity assessment
Design-stage Investigation of Materials and Optimal Machine Parameters

All of ANSYS Additive solutions include Discovery SpaceClaim, a comprehensive geometry building and editing capability to save time repairing and preparing models for 3D printing.

Repair models from problems you typically run into during the printing process
Create and modify CAD files
Save and export STL
Work directly with STL files to shell, scale, and split models
Combine STL models with other STL models or solids
Automate verification and repair of STL, including intersections, watertightness, misaligned normals and co-incident triangles
Manipulate solids to:
- Shell models to minimise waste
- Scale models
- Split models for better printing, adding pins, lips, mortise, or joints as needed

Optimising STLs >>	3D Printing in AEC >>

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Direct Editing >>	Surface Part Print Prep >>	Converting STL to Solid >>