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ACCELERATE YOUR MANUFACTURING PROCESS

A COMPREHENSIVE SOLUTION CONVERGING DESIGN, SIMULATION, AND ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING

Gain insights through automated workflows to eliminate the risk of distorted or out of tolerance parts, and ensure high quality components.

Additive Simulation

Additive Products

July 2024

What's New

We're excited to announce the integration of Ansys's advanced simulation technology into Materialise Magics, a strategic partnership poised to transform metal additive manufacturing. This partnership enhances product quality, reduces costs, and drives innovation. 

Key Benefits

  • Mitigate Risks
    • Predicts and addresses part deformation and thermal stress early, ensuring consistent quality and reducing costly rework.
  • Enhance Efficiency
    • Seamless integration within Magics software streamlines workflows, accelerates learning, and reduces time-to-market.
  • Reduce Costs
    • Optimizes part orientations and support structures, minimizing post-processing and material wastage, leading to significant cost savings and improved ROI.
  • Drive Innovation
    • Provides unprecedented accuracy and reliability, enabling confident design validation and faster product innovation.
  • Boost Performance
    • Up to 15% faster mechanical simulations
    • Up to 95% faster thermal simulations
  • Optimize Workflow:
    • Fosters collaboration between design and production teams, maximizing efficiency from design to production.
2024 R2 Additive magics integration

Additive Processes

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
  • STL file repair and geometry manipulation
  • Part nesting and support generation
  • Orientation guidance and wizards
  • Metal AM process simulations
  • Distortion compensation
  • Build failure 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

CASE STUDIES

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Breaking the Mold

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Qualifying Additive Manufactured Rocket Parts with Simulation

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Framing a Lighter, Stronger Race Car

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ANSYS Topology Optimization Upgrades Designs to Take Full Advantage of 3-D Printing

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Including Simulation in the Additive Manufacturing Workflow

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A Complete Additive Manufacturing Solution

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BLOG

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BY: NILAY PARIKH

Additive Manufacturing Meets Supply Chain Challenges Created by COVID-19

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BY: JAMES YANG

3D Printing Innovation Takes Off at NASA

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BY: CURT CHAN

Additive Manufacturing Fuels Extreme Innovation at Pankl Racing

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WEBINARS

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Additive Simulation 101 – Back to Basics

Imagine 3D printing a part and hearing ‘oops’ from your operator or engineer.  What’s the first thing that goes through your mind?...How much is this going to cost us?  Whether you’re producing parts out of plastic, resin, or metal, the cost fluctuates, especially with metal additive printing.  

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