A method and apparatus for designing and manufacturing a component in a computer-aided design and manufacturing environment is disclosed. A method includes obtaining a geometric model of a component from a geometric model database, and determining at least one orientation parameter value associated with the geometric model of the component. The at least one orientation parameter value is associated with an orientation parameter that defines orientation of the component during additive manufacturing of the component. The method includes performing volumetric analysis of the component based on the at least one orientation parameter value associated with the component using the geometric model of the component. The method also includes computing one or more overheating areas in the component corresponding to the at least one orientation parameter value based on the volumetric analysis of the geometric model of the component, and outputting a multi-dimensional visual representation of the geometric model of the component Indicating one or more overheating areas in the component.

A method for creating a space-filling solid model includes (a) defining a three-dimensional (3D) domain, (b) defining a Voronoi site geometry for each of a plurality of Voronoi sites, (c) defining a spatial arrangement of the plurality of Voronoi sites, (d) arranging the plurality of Voronoi sites within the 3D domain according to the defined spatial arrangement, and (e) partitioning the 3D domain based on the Voronoi site geometry of each the plurality of Voronoi sites defined in (b) and the spatial arrangement of the plurality of Voronoi sites defined in (c) using a distance function to create the space-filling solid model.

Systems and a method determine an amount of printing material powder for 3D printing an object a multi-object printing job. Data on the following is received: a 3D-model of the object, a volume and a surface of the object, data on a thickness of a powder, on characteristics of the build chamber, a volume of a no build zone and a volume of a net build zone, an estimation of a volume of recyclable interstitial powder, on a powder density and on a solid density of the printing material and on a recycling ratio. The following quantities are determined: a volume of the powder layer around the object, a dilated object contribution, the amount of used powder due the dilated object, the amount of lost powder in the no build zone, the amount of lost powder in the net build zone and the amount of printing material required.

A medical implant which comprises a porous lattice is fabricated with additive manufacturing techniques such as direct metal laser sintering. A CAD model of the porous lattice is created by defining a trimming volume and merging some lattice elements with adjacent solid substrate.

In one example, a 3D printing system includes a support structure generator to identify a breakaway support to temporarily support part of the object, to design a wedge shaped groove between a portion of the object and the support, the groove ending at a line along which the support intersects the object, and to generate a digital object model that includes the support and the groove. The system also includes a 3D printer to print the object, support and groove based on the object model.

A computing system may include an access engine and a toolpath reordering engine. The access engine may be configured to access an original layer toolpath for slice of a 3D CAD object as well as a heat criticality measure for the original layer toolpath. The heat criticality measure may specify a heat impact for different points on the multiple toolpath segments of the original layer toolpath for the 3D printing of the physical part using the original layer toolpath. The toolpath reordering engine may be configured to reorder the multiple toolpath segments into a modified layer toolpath, and the modified layer toolpath may have a heat criticality measure with a lesser heat impact on the physical part than the heat criticality measure for the original layer toolpath.

A system for assisting the design of manufactured components requiring post-processing and comprising an input module receiving original design data relative to engineering requirements of a component and manufacturing and post-processing data relative to the component. The system also comprising a compensation determination module receiving the original design data and the manufacturing and post-processing data from the input module, predicting the geometrical deviations created by the at least one post-processing procedure and generating dimension compensation data defining compensations for each one of the features of the component using at least one machine learning model generated by a machine learning algorithm trained using a training dataset. The system further comprises a compensated model generation module configured to receive the compensation data and to generate a compensated Computer Assisted Design (CAD) model therefrom. A computer implemented method for assisting the design of manufactured components requiring post-processing is also provided.

A system and method for detecting, based on a simulation of a build of an object using additive manufacturing, if the build of the object would be flawed or would fail during actual additive manufacturing of the object is provided.

Systems and methods for simulating a melt pool characteristic for selective laser melting additive manufacturing. The system includes a selective laser melting apparatus and an electronic controller configured to obtain a surface geometry of a previous layer of a component being manufactured using the selective laser melting apparatus, simulate an addition of a powder layer having a desired powder layer thickness to the component based upon the surface geometry of the previous layer, determine a melt pool characteristic based upon geometric information of the simulated powder layer and the desired powder layer thickness, determine an adjustment to the simulated powder layer based upon the melt pool characteristic, and actuate the selective laser melting apparatus based upon the simulated powder layer and the determined adjustment.

In an aspect an apparatus for analyzing machinability of a part for manufacture, wherein the apparatus comprises a processor. The processor is configured to receive a representative part model of a part for manufacture. The processor may also be configured to extract a semantic datum from the print of the part for manufacture. A machinability datum is determined as a function of the semantic datum. A manufacturing quote is generated as a function of the machinability datum.