Additive manufacturing (AM) is the process of creating a physical model of a digital CAD 3D model by building up layers of material using a 3D printer. Compared with “3D printing,” AM is typically associated with industrial and manufacturing applications.
With Creo, you can innovate faster, improve time to market, and reduce expense by using AM for prototypes, fixtures, and production parts. Design, optimize, and print with ease, all within the Creo design environment.AM is not a stand-in for traditional manufacturing methods. It’s a new way of looking at product design. Design for additive manufacturing (DfAM) leverages the transformational power of AM to provide engineers and designers with the tools needed to achieve highly complex designs that break the barriers set by traditional manufacturing.
AM enables you to create designs that could not be produced using traditional manufacturing processes. Optimize design performance with lattice features, generative design, and simulation.
AM enables you to create designs that could not be produced using traditional manufacturing processes. Optimize design performance with lattice features, generative design, and simulation.
Design, optimize, and print all within the Creo design environment, avoiding the time-consuming, error-ridden hassle of multiple software packages. Easily design and print your part designs, with interference check, print tray setup, and nesting optimization.
Design, optimize, and print all within the Creo design environment, avoiding the time-consuming, error-ridden hassle of multiple software packages. Easily design and print your part designs, with interference check, print tray setup, and nesting optimization.
Save assembly costs by consolidating multiple parts into one. Minimize material usage with lattice capabilities. Leverage AM for rapid prototyping, manufacturing fixtures, production parts, and service parts.
Save assembly costs by consolidating multiple parts into one. Minimize material usage with lattice capabilities. Leverage AM for rapid prototyping, manufacturing fixtures, production parts, and service parts.
AM enables you to create designs that could not be produced using traditional manufacturing processes. Optimize design performance with lattice features, generative design, and simulation.
AM enables you to create designs that could not be produced using traditional manufacturing processes. Optimize design performance with lattice features, generative design, and simulation.
Design, optimize, and print all within the Creo design environment, avoiding the time-consuming, error-ridden hassle of multiple software packages. Easily design and print your part designs, with interference check, print tray setup, and nesting optimization.
Design, optimize, and print all within the Creo design environment, avoiding the time-consuming, error-ridden hassle of multiple software packages. Easily design and print your part designs, with interference check, print tray setup, and nesting optimization.
Save assembly costs by consolidating multiple parts into one. Minimize material usage with lattice capabilities. Leverage AM for rapid prototyping, manufacturing fixtures, production parts, and service parts.
Save assembly costs by consolidating multiple parts into one. Minimize material usage with lattice capabilities. Leverage AM for rapid prototyping, manufacturing fixtures, production parts, and service parts.
See what’s possible when you design for additive manufacturing. Only Creo gives you the power and flexibility you need to design, optimize, validate, and run a print check all in one environment. Watch this webinar and learn how to close the gap between 3D CAD and design for additive manufacturing.
There are several fundamental printer technologies, each optimized for specific materials and desired outcomes. Fortunately, Creo makes it easy to 3D print to a wide variety of brands and types of printers.
Thermal energy from an electron laser beam fuses layers from a powdered material bed. For both polymers and metals, power bed fusion (PBF) is ideal for precise, functional parts.
Material filament is extruded through a nozzle and deposited in layers. This produces inexpensive physical models using polymer, metal, and composite materials.
A bonding agent joins thin layers of powdered materials. Metal and composite materials can be used to produce low-cost, high-volume parts.
Layers of liquid polymer are cured by a light or heat source. This process produces a high-quality surface finish, ideal for prototypes.
Metal is melted, deposited, and fused in place. This print technology is perfect for large metal products.
Additive manufacturing helps automotive manufacturers speed development, keep production lines moving, and deliver a variety of production and service parts. Additive helps manufacturers as they continue to transition from internal combustion to electric vehicles.
Today’s innovative additive manufacturing helps aerospace and defense manufacturers deliver high-performance, lightweight products, while controlling costs.
Additive manufacturing helps life science manufacturers expedite delivery of high-quality, life-changing products, with everything from custom medical parts to high-volume disposables and pharmaceuticals.
You can seamlessly design, optimize, validate, and run a print check, all within the same environment. With no more of the time-consuming, error-ridden hassle of multiple software packages, you can reduce time to market, improve part performance, and accelerate innovation, whether you’re looking at prototyping or final part production. These extensions feature enhanced lattice capabilities with the addition of stochastic lattices based on the Delaunay algorithm, hard-edge definition, and the ability to create lattice structures using custom cells, thereby enabling highly complex parts that cannot be produced using traditional manufacturing.
You can seamlessly design, optimize, validate, and run a print check, all within the same environment. With no more of the time-consuming, error-ridden hassle of multiple software packages, you can reduce time to market, improve part performance, and accelerate innovation, whether you’re looking at prototyping or final part production. The new extensions feature enhanced lattice capabilities with the addition of stochastic lattices based on the Delaunay algorithm, hard-edge definition, and the ability to create lattice structures using custom cells, thereby enabling highly complex parts that cannot be produced using traditional manufacturing.
With Creo’s capabilities, you can design for additive manufacturing and optimize parts for production with ease. Explore how to:
Create parametrically controlled lattice structures and fully detailed parts with accurate mass properties.
Identify printability issues in your design
Scale, position, and show a clipped view of the model and probable support material on the tray
Automatically optimize the position of the model in the tray for printing
Define profiles for multiple supported printers
Modify, manage, and save print tray assemblies
Assign materials and colors, calculate build and material consumption, and print directly from Creo to supported 3D printers
Connect directly to service bureaus—such as i.materialise—for access to more than 100 materials
With variability control, you can reinforce the lattices how you wish (requires extension)
Maximize design performance with lattice creation and optimization. Direct connection to Stratasys, 3D Systems, and Materialise library printers, as well as i.materialise and 3D systems on demand online print service bureaus.
Maximize design performance with lattice creation and optimization. Direct connection to Stratasys, 3D Systems, and Materialise library printers, as well as i.materialise and 3D systems on demand online print service bureaus.
Direct connection to metal printers in the Materialise library and automatically generate metal support structures using Materialise Magics. Optimize design performance and cost with lattice creation.
Direct connection to metal printers in the Materialise library and automatically generate metal support structures using Materialise Magics. Optimize design performance and cost with lattice creation.
Maximize design performance with lattice creation and optimization. Direct connection to Stratasys, 3D Systems, and Materialise library printers, as well as i.materialise and 3D systems on demand online print service bureaus.
Maximize design performance with lattice creation and optimization. Direct connection to Stratasys, 3D Systems, and Materialise library printers, as well as i.materialise and 3D systems on demand online print service bureaus.
Direct connection to metal printers in the Materialise library and automatically generate metal support structures using Materialise Magics. Optimize design performance and cost with lattice creation.
Direct connection to metal printers in the Materialise library and automatically generate metal support structures using Materialise Magics. Optimize design performance and cost with lattice creation.
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