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Additive manufacturing solutions
Using Industrial Computed Tomography
Improve your workflows for
additively manufactured parts
3D printing is the fastest growing manufacturing technology of this century. New materials, new processes, new machines appear on a daily basis. The success is undeniable and its future shines brightly, but also opens the door for new types of 3D printing defects.
As products with high complexity and a low number of units are the sweet spot of the technology today, first adopters are amongst aerospace, medical, and military usages, with high demands in quality, security, and certification.
Additive Manufacturing –
Powder Analyses
Grain contaminations, trapped air, grain sizes, and shapes can be analyzed with VGSTUDIO MAX, automatically for tens of thousands of particles.
3D Printing Defect:
Porosity
Filtering of the defects by, e.g., sphericity, compactness, or distance to surface allows to distinguish between defect formation mechanisms.
Meltpool
Analysis
Conspicuous features in the melt pool can be looked up in the CT data to define regions of interest for thorough 3d printing defect analyses.
Dimensional Part
Inspection
Dimensional variations also occur in additively manufactured parts, leading to complex warpage. VGSTUDIO MAX provides a full suite of measurement capability from complex alignments to customizable measurement reports.
Structural Mechanics
Simulation
Simulate directly on CT data or prepare your
CT data for export for simulation purposes.
Volume Graphics software gives you the tools to check your simulation workflows. Perform virtual stress tests or microstructure-level virtual flow and diffusion experiments directly on CT scans. Or create high-quality tetrahedral volume meshes for FEM simulations in third-party software.
Virtual
metrology
By using the measurement capabilities of VGSTUDIO MAX on simulation results the assesment of the simuated and the real part is done in a consistent way throughout the whole product life cyle enableing objective results every time.
Structural Simulation of 3D Prints with Geometry Deviations and Material Defects
Simulation of AM – Virtually Optimize
Quality, Time, and Costs
Combination of Melt Pool and CT Data
in Additive Manufacturing
CT and Complex Designs in AM –
How to Get These Designs
Quality Inspection for Additive Manufacturing
– from Powder to Part
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Additional Information
- Webinar "Quality Inspection for Additive Manufacturing—from Powder to Part"
- Webinar "Dimensional Characterization of Lattice Structures"
- Webinar "CT and Complex Designs in AM – How to Get These Designs?"
- Webinar "Combination of Melt Pool and CT Data in Additive Manufacturing"
- Webinar "Speed up Your Process Parameter Development with Computed Tomography"
- Webinar "Simulation of AM – Virtually Optimize Quality, Time, and Costs"
- Brochure "Quality Control in Additive Manufacturing with Volume Graphics Software" — English
- Review: Volume Graphics VGStudio Max (DEVELOP3D)
- Sintavia uses QM Meltpool to Ensure Part Quality in Metal AM (Concept Laser / Sintavia)
- Assessing Additive Manufacturing Processes with X-ray CT Metrology (ResearchGate)
- Verifying Structural Integrity of Metal 3D-Printed Parts (Additive Manufacturing)
- Characterisation of powder-filled defects in additive manufactured surfaces using X-ray CT (Technical Paper, iCT 2018)
- X-ray CT Inspection for Medical Implants (Metrology.news)
- Analyzing Additive Manufacturing with CT (Video, rapid + tct 2019)
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