In this section, you will find everything necessary to connect AddUp printers & software to the 3DEXPERIENCE platform.
What to experience inside our apps with this collaboration ?
- To switch seamlessly from design parts for AM to simulating print on AddUp virtual twin machine.
- To use AddUp printing parameters for trajectories computation.
- To display AddUp trajectories and to parse the whole build job across layers and time.
- To generate job file for the printer.
Prerequisite
- To install AddUp NTwin for 3DX from this link:
- Purpose: it grants interoperability between the 3DExperience and AddUp machines: when AddUp additive model needs AddUp functionalities, it interacts with AddUp NTwin for 3DX.
- To request a licence for AddUp NTwin for 3DX from AddUp NTwin License Manager
Tip: To download AddUp NTwin, click on file icon - it would open a new tab.
Procedure
This video guides you from verifying model consistency to generating job file for your FormUp printer.
To be noticed, workflow is the same for all published models.
1/ To launch 3DEXPERIENCE.
2/ To download your Additive Machine model then to import the 3DXML file into 3DEXPERIENCE.
3/ To start your Additive application.
4/ To open "Search Machine" command then to pick the uploaded model.
5/ To open PLM tree and to left-click on it. To click on "edit machine" button from the bubble bar. Or, you can right-click on it then inside the contextual menu, go to Additive Machine then click on Edit NC Resource
6/ To check that "AddUp_TemplateFileName" custom parameter is defined:
AddUp_TemplateFileName parameter must point to the template.addproj file and blank spaces inside the filename are not supported.
7/ To open "Virtual Machine" expander, to click on "Check library load":
To verify that following services are checked: "Get list of available rules" ; "Create jobfile from geometry" ; "Get Settings"
8/ To open "Rules" expander, to click on "Update list of rules". To check that Rules are added under both "Build process" & "Scan path" nodes
9/ To prepare the build...
... Once you are about to define scanning strategy:
10/ To open "Generate output" command then to check that "addproj" option appears inside the "Format" dropdown list.
11/ To click on "Build strategy" button.
12/ To pick one from dropdown list next to Build process rule then to define Scan path rule on all regions.
To validate assignment.
13/ To click on Generate.
14/ To open "Display scan path" command to review the trajectories coming from AddUp APIs.
15/ To open generated addproj file in AddUp Manager.
16/ To review job file then to send it for manufacturing.
Available models
About AM models versioning
These models were created from a specific 3DEXPERIENCE Platform version and are compatible with later releases.
Make sure to download the model matching your configuration.
External parameters
All the knowledge coming from AddUp Manager - Template and scanning strategies associated to it - is imported as "build process: & "scan path" rules in the 3DEXPERIENCE. It means that you must first define Template and export it to the directory folder - the one pointed by AddUp_TemplateFileName cf. above procedure.
The "Generate output" command allows you to use these Template parameters by assigning their associated "build process" & "scan path" rules on parts and supports.
