Additive manufacturing (AM), or 3D printing, creates 3D components by adding layers of material based on a digital model. Compared to subtractive manufacturing techniques that produce a final product by cutting material away from a block, additive manufacturing technologies have the potential to reduce waste and support lightweighting. AM provides enormous design freedom, allowing engineers to explore more freeform, organic designs and identify the optimal approach.

Simufact Additive

Simulation software for process design, virtual testing and optimization of metal-based additive manufacturing.

Simufact Additive is a scalable software solution for the simulation of metal-based additive manufacturing processes which focuses on laser powder bed fusion (L- PBF) and metal binder jetting (MBJ) processes.

Simufact Additive is a software solution designed to predict and compensate for distortion, residual stress and temperature distribution throughout the printing, heat treatment, cutting, hot isostatic pressing (HIP) as well as machining processes virtually before the part is manufactured by the 3D metal printer in reality.

Accurately simulate metal AM processes

To prevent costly defects, Simufact Additive enables the easy-to-use virtual simulation of the entire production process: From Support structure generation and removal to heat treatment, machining and more.