Additive Manufacturing.
With build prep and simulation critical to your workflow, you need a true end-to-end solution
An integrated end-to-end solution
A lot is on the line for additive manufacturers.
Each metal additive build attempt requires a significant time and financial investment, driving up risk.
Avoid the risks and pitfalls of disconnected software, multiple file conversions, out of control workflows and conventional thinking with a true end-to-end process in a single eco system.
Working in an integrated solution and maintaining file relationships allows minor design changes to be rapidly propagated across the workflow steps. Move from generative design to production easily and smoothly without data translations.
One single platform takes you from design to print prep and from print simulation to post-print processing:
- Perform simple topology optimization directly in NX, or include HEEDS for complex multiphysics optimization
- Create post-print machining operations using NX CAM
- Manage everything from design to print in TeamCenter
- Select from a comprehensive combination of order and shop floor management tools (OP Center, AM Network, etc.)
Multiple additive technologies
Discover build prep for the widest range of production printing technologies:
- Powder bed fusion
- Jetting
- Directed energy deposition
- Fused deposition modeling
Bring all your additive processes, from fixed-plane to multi-axis, plastic or metal, into one integrated solution.
For fixed-plane powder bed processes, NX works with most common additive technologies (SLS, DMLS, SLM, MJF). For simple 3 axis extrusion processes, leverage the NX/Cura Integration.
For multi axis work, whether on a CNC or robot, leverage the NX CAM environment. Whether you’re working with plastic extrusion or metal deposition, using wire or powder feedstock, the multi-axis workflow is a compatible best-in-class solution.
Smart innovation
Simulation in additive manufacturing
Improve overall product quality and reduce costs by predicting defects before printing.
By simulating the process, you can reduce your scrap rate and improve the material characteristics of your print
- Simulate and compensate for distortion in metal bed powder prints
- Predict recoater collisions
- Use build optimizer to quickly find optimal print orientations
- Increase your first time success rate
Simcenter 3D for AM is integrated in a multidiscipline simulation environment so you can:
- Perform CAE processes faster
- Streamline multidisciplinary simulations that integrate additive manufacturing
- Use either voxel- or exact
tetrahedron-based meshes for
your simulation - Generate compensated geometry (STL or BREP) based on the simulated distortion fields
Discover the tools to:
- Simulate the AM process for selective laser melting (SLM)
- Compute the distortion of parts during the AM process
- Predict distortions and defects
before parts are printed - Reduce the number of test prints
- Improve the quality of the
final print
Additive manufacturing build optimization
New to metal powder bed fusion?
Rapidly overcome the additive learning curve with the help of the convenient cloud-based NX AM Build Optimizer tool.
Quickly get a proposed optimal print orientation and coarse distortion predictions, without the need for meshing or complex setup steps.
- Optimize 3D print orientation for maximum print quality (minimal distortion, support volume, support removal, build time)
- Use parallel processing to make the best decisions during build setup
- Use the stand-alone ITAR-compliant cloud solution or the NX-integrated version
Use NX AM Build Optimizer to:
- Predict future print errors early
- Generate support structures for printing
- Analyze more than 100 orientation simulation runs in parallel
- Get a visual map of distortion caused by the print process
- Estimate costs for material and print time