What's New?
Ansys 2022 R1 continues to expand toolsets for Additive Manufacturing Users, streamlining your workflows between design, simulation, and manufacturing. In addition, every Ansys Mechanical User can now identify and minimize risk for build errors and ensure high-quality parts through process simulation for metal Powder Bed Fusion (PBF), Directed Energy Deposition (DED), and Metal Binder Jet.
- Streamline your workflows with Directed Energy Deposition (DED) – introducing DED process simulation to the Ansys Additive Portfolio, providing capabilities from predicting macro-level temperature distortions and stresses to prevent build failures and provide trend data for improving designs for additive manufacturing including part orientation and part build order.
- Continued improvements for Power Bed Fusion (PBF) process simulation– double the strain generation speed for Scan Pattern simulations, paired with an expanding material library.
- Workflow speed improvements – fully threaded solver support, multi-platform additive wizard support, MAPDL solver enhancements, and now providing a seamless transfer from Ansys Additive Products to Workbench and Mechanical.
Additive Capabilities
Design for AM (DfAM)
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- CAD Modeling
- Topology Optimization
- Lattice and Light weighting
Build Setup
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- STL file repair and geometry manipulation
- Part nesting and support generation
- Orientation guidance and wizards
Process Simulation
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- Metal AM process simulations
- Distortion compensation
- Build failure prediction
Material Analysis
Learn More >Material Analysis
- Curated material property databases
- Grain morphology predictions
- Melt pool and porosity prediction
Data Acquisition and Management
Learn More >Data Acquisition and Management
- Traceability and full control of AM data
- Consolidate, control and share AM data across organization
Part Qualification
Learn More >Part Qualification
- Design validation
- Structural and thermal analysis
- Document control and certification