ANSYS Additive Print eliminates the guesswork and hours of wasted time in metal additive manufacturing (AM) workflows. This easy-to-use, yet powerful stand-alone solution, is essential for AM operators and designers that need to build parts first-time-right. Additive Print delivers unparalleled accuracy in predicting:
Final shape of the printed part.
Layer-by-layer distortion and stress.
Optimal support structures.
Distortion-compensated STL files.
Potential blade crash.
Why use ANSYS Additive Print?

Reduce physical trial-and-error experiments.
Mitigate uncertainty.
Design geometries for more accurate printing.
Accelerate production.
Gain confidence in prices quoted to customers.
Reduce build failures for laser powder bed fusion.

Capabilities:
PREDICT DISTORTION
Offers insight into how parts will distort during a build.
Provides visualization that allows users to evaluate how their assumptions of distortion and residual stress effect as-built parts, to enable the successful selection of part orientations and support strategies.
Enables the visualization of the differences between the original, un-deformed geometry and the final deformed geometry, before and after removal from supports.

PREDICT STRESS
Predicts stress trends, final residual stress and maximum stress locations throughout the build.
Delivers graphical visualization of layer-by-layer stress accumulation and high-strain regions throughout the build.
Predicts potential blade crash locations via color maps.

AUTO DISTORTION COMPENSATION
Automatically generates distortion-compensated STL files to build conforming parts in a single try.

PREDICT THERMAL STRAIN
Predicts thermal strain, based on a full-part thermal analysis - scan vector by scan vector.
Predicts anisotropic effects based on scan orientation within thermal strain.
Calculates strain patterns using uniform assumed strain, scan pattern strain or thermal strain options.

AUTO GENERATE SUPPORTS
Predicts maximum residual stresses that supports must withstand.
Generates support structures automatically, based on an algorithm that varies the support density for carrying the maximum residual stresses.
Provides users with resulting support structure in an STL file format.

OS: Windows 10 (64-bit Professional, Enterprise and Education editions) only!!