Multi-head 3D printing manufacturing Autodesk

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Autodesk expanded the Netfabb software into an end-to-end additive manufacturing solution, with enhanced simulation capabilities, new hybrid manufacturing functionality and collaborative multi-head 3D printing. Simulation for Netfabb, built on technology from the acquired Pam Computing, allows to predict and adjust for deformation, enabling part designers and manufacturing engineers to optimize designs and reduce the number of iterations required for reliable build results. To support hybrid manufacturing, the software now also includes solid modeling and near-net shape planning capabilities, based on Autodesk (former Delcam) PowerShape technology.

The hybrid manufacturing functionality enables users to keep models in solid form and take advantage of solid modeling tools aligned to CAM workflows. It also enables to keep sight of the original solid model, and easily track the near-net shape as it is built to allow for the subtractive processes, employed in order to increase accuracy of the 3D printed parts and to optimize surface quality. Lastly, control technology from Project Escher powers machines with multiple extrusion-based print heads, working together to print a single part. This collaborative 3D printing process makes printing industrial scale parts with greater speed and detail. Autodesk is also open-sourcing the hardware specifications and the software required, in order to create machines with collaborative 3D printing capability, enabling vendors to create multi-head printers that can print parts faster, pushing forward innovation in industrial additive manufacturing.

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