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Gain insights through automated workflows to eliminate the risk of distorted or out of tolerance parts, and ensure high quality components.
Additive Simulation
JULY 2022
What's New
Ansys 2022 R2 expands toolsets for Additive Manufacturing Users, streamlining your workflows between design, simulation, and manufacturing. Every Ansys Mechanical User can now identify and minimize the risk for build errors and ensure high-quality parts through process simulation for Metal Laser Powder Bed Fusion (LPBF), Directed Energy Deposition (DED), and Metal Binder Jet (MBJ).
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Workflow Improvements
- Automatic Distortion Compensation is the ability to optimize a distortion compensated model within a simple automated workflow, which improves first-time print success.
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Accuracy Enhancements
- Consolidating additive technologies include Laser Power Bed Fusion (LPBF) scan pattern effects in Workbench Additive. With the consolidation of additive technologies, all users can rapidly increase simulation fidelity, capturing localized strain variations in each deposition layer.
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Speed Performance
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Introducing a Machine Learning (ML)
model for predicting thermal strain can result in 10X time savings. Users can
now easily explore the benefits of varying process setup parameters such as
power, speed, and scan vector.
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Introducing a Machine Learning (ML)
model for predicting thermal strain can result in 10X time savings. Users can
now easily explore the benefits of varying process setup parameters such as
power, speed, and scan vector.
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Additive Processes
Powder Bed Fusion (PBF)
What is it?
Powder Bed Fusion (PBF) is a metal additive manufacturing technology using a bed of powder with a source of heat to create metal parts.
How Ansys helps:
- Predict the part shape, distortion, and stresses before printing with distortion prediction & compensation capabilities
- Auto-generate supports, helping you predict maximum residual stresses that supports must withstand
- Melt pool, porosity & microstructure predictions for process parameter development
- Best-in-class material properties for powerful analytics to establish the process property relationships
- Structural and thermal analysis design validation
Directed Energy Deposition (DED)
What is it?
Directed Energy Deposition is a 3D manufacturing process combines metal feedstock and a laser to fabricate parts.
How Ansys helps
- Full part thermal mechanical process simulation
- Macro level temperature, deformation, strain and stress prediction
- Intelligent Gcode commands support
- Customizable fidelity-cost balance
- Non-planar baseplate compatibility
Metal Sintering
What is it?
Metal Sintering micro-welds powdered metals to form metal components.
How Ansys helps
- Predict shrinkage and bending before printing
- Auto-generate supports, helping you predict maximum residual stresses that supports must withstand
- Get insight into how parts will behave during a build and takes corrective steps to get the details right the first time
- Best-in-class material properties to ensure traceability of additive manufacturing data
- Check for distortion, stress, and strain regions, predict blade crash
Additive Products
Additive Suite spans the entire workflow – from design for additive manufacturing (DfAM) through validation, print design, process simulation and exploration of materials.
Additive Suite includes:
- Additive Prep
- Additive Print
- Additive Science
- Access to Workbench Additive
Choose parts correctly the first time on Metal AM Equipment with Additive Print, a standalone solution for Additive Manufacturing Process simulations.
- AM Process simulation tool for Powder-Bed Fusion Process
- Blade Crash Detection
- Stress and Strain Analysis
- Distortion predictions
- Ensure first-time right printed parts
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- Ensure traceability of additive manufacturing data
- Data includes powders, builds, machine parameters and more
- Provide Additive Manufacturing data to help optimize
Our innovative interface for 3D design engineers combines live physics simulation, high-fidelity results and direct modeling.
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Design for Additive Manufacturing (DfAM) tools
- Features live physics simulation
- Delivers fast high-fidelity results
- Explore multiphysics and multiple physics scenarios
- De-feature CAD models, extract fluid domains or simplify models for simulation
- Topology optimization speeds workflow
- Works with any CAD file
Capabilities
Ansys Additive Solutions, a comprehensive and scalable software solution, enables minimized risk while ensuring high-quality, certifiable parts.
- Design for AM (DfAM)
- Build setup
- Process simulation
- Material analysis
- Data acquisition and management
- Part qualification
- CAD Modeling
- Topology Optimization
- Lattice and Light weighting
- STL file repair and geometry manipulation
- Part nesting and support generation
- Orientation guidance and wizards
- Metal AM process simulations
- Distortion compensation
- Build failure prediction
- Curated material property databases
- Grain morphology predictions
- Melt pool and porosity prediction
- Traceability and full control of AM data
- Consolidate, control and share AM data across organization
- Design validation
- Structural and thermal analysis
- Document control and certification
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