Ansys Additive Solutions
Minimize risk and ensure high-quality, certifiable additive manufacturing parts with Ansys’ comprehensive and scalable software solution. Create and optimize designs for topology, lattice optimizations and more.
Ansys Additive Manufacturing
3D Printing Simulation Software
Additive Manufacturing Simulation Solution
High Level Features
Ansys Additive Solutions, a comprehensive and scalable software solution, allows you to minimize risk and ensure high quality, certifiable parts. Dive deeper into the properties of your printer parts, ensure traceability of your data, optimize build files and more. Our software lets you create additive manufacturing designs and simulate the metal additive manufacturing process to reduce product development time. An end-to-end manufacturing solution, Additive Solutions spans across multiple Ansys product offerings.
JANUARY 2021
What's New
Ansys 2021 R1 delivers enhancements across all portfolio products — Ansys Additive Prep, Ansys Additive Print, Ansys Additive Science and Ansys Workbench Additive — empowering users to further advance their additive manufacturing capabilities.
Enhancements include:
- Full release of 2D microstructure (Additive Science)
- Full release of stainless steel 316L material for thermal solver (Additive Print and Additive Science)
- Automated calibration set up in Additive Wizard (Workbench Additive)
- Support part connectivity improvement (Workbench Additive)
- Creation of EOS and Renishaw build files (Additive Prep)
- Improved orientation optimization and new analysis types (Additive Prep)
Webinars
Additive Simulation
Additive Products
Additive Manufacturing
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
Additive Manufacturing
A prep step for simulation and printing, Additive Prep includes a preparation tool and quickly generates support structures.
- Create build volumes
- Orient parts using heat maps
- Generate support structures
- Export files directly to AM Equipment
Additive Manufacturing
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
Materials
The leading system for materials information, GRANTA MI Enterprise allows you to develop and protect your materials, save time, drive innovation, cut costs and eliminate risk.
- Ensure traceability of additive manufacturing data
- Data includes powders, builds, machine parameters and more
- Provide Additive Manufacturing data to help optimize
3D Design
With Discovery Live, easy-to-use tools allow interactive exploration with simulation results that appear in real time and provide directional guidance.
- Simulation-driven design tool
- Design for Additive Manufacturing (DfAM) tools
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
