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Netfabb®, a software package that optimizes designs for additive manufacturing, simulates metal additive processes, and plans for CNC post-processing, includes tools for build preparation. You can import models from many CAD formats and use repair tools quickly to correct errors. Adjust the wall thickness, smooth out rough areas, etc., to make your models ready for production. Semi-automated tools can be used to identify areas that need support. Convert organic, unstructured mesh files into boundary representation models. Make them available in CAD in STEP or SAT format. To optimize the placement of parts within a build volume, you can use 2D or 3D packing algorithms. You can create custom reports that include important information for manufacturing and quoting. For maximum surface quality, part density, speed, and efficiency, develop build strategies and define toolpath parameters.

Additive Works offers software solutions that aim to achieve a "first time-right" additive manufacturing process. This is achieved by integrating new analysis tools and simulation tools into the process chain for Laser Beam Melting processes (LBM/SLM/DMLS, Metal 3D Printing). The current needs and challenges of industrial additive manufacturing drove the development of the software suite Amphyon. It aims to reduce pre-processing costs, and to take metal AM to the next stage of automation. The ASAP-Principle outlines four steps that will lead to a stable, reliable, and efficient process chain: Simulation, Adaption, Assessment, and the Process itself. On the Assessment stage, we can calculate both the limitations and the optimal orientations by examining all possible buildups in relation to the economic and physical aspects.