Ansys Additive Manufacturing
Ansys Additive Manufacturing enables engineers to design, simulate, and optimize metal 3D-printed parts before production. Predict distortion, residual stress, and build failures to reduce trial-and-error and ensure reliable part performance.
Why simulate additive manufacturing?
Additive manufacturing offers unprecedented design freedom but introduces complex physical phenomena such as thermal gradients, residual stresses, and distortion during printing. Simulation allows engineers to predict these effects before manufacturing begins.
With Ansys Additive Manufacturing you can:
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Reduce build failures and costly print iterations
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Predict distortion, stresses, and deformation during printing
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Optimize part orientation and support structures
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Improve material performance and part quality
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Accelerate qualification of additively manufactured components
Simulation provides the insights required to ensure parts conform to design specifications and perform reliably in real-world applications
Key Features
Ansys Additive Manufacturing provides a comprehensive set of tools to design, simulate, and validate additive manufacturing processes and parts.
- Design for Additive Manufacturing (DfAM)
- Additive process simulation
- Distortion prediction and compensation
- Structural and thermal validation
- STL manipulation and geometry repair
- Material and process analysis
Benefits
Reduce costly build failures
Predict thermal stresses, distortion, and process risks before printing, helping engineers avoid failed builds and reduce expensive trial-and-error iterations
Accelerate additive product development
Move faster from design to production by simulating and validating additive processes digitally, reducing the need for physical prototypes
Optimize lightweight designs
Create high-performance parts with improved strength-to-weight ratios using generative design, topology optimization, and lattice structures.
Improve part quality and accuracy
Ensure parts conform to design specifications by predicting distortions and compensating geometry before printing.
Gain deeper insight into materials and processes
Understand how process parameters, thermal conditions, and materials interact to improve manufacturing reliability and part performance.
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Who We Have Helped
Ansys medini analyze has streamlined and accelerated functional safety analysis for hardware, software and systems — delivering possible efficiencies including an up to 50% reduction in the time devoted to these tasks.
— Kamil Svancara / Cyber Security Manager, ZF Friedrichshafen AG
For just one new pump design Grundfos was able to cut 30 percent in overall development time and achieve significant savings in physical prototyping costs.
— Jacob Vernersen / Senior Manager
Valmet Flow Control experts have been largely freed from routine valve design, and can instead focus on more challenging issues.
— Tommi Bergström / Valmet Flow Control Oy
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