In this section, you will find everything necessary to connect EOS printers & software to the 3DEXPERIENCE platform.
What to experience inside our apps with this collaboration ?
- To switch seamlessly from design parts for AM to programming print on EOS virtual twin machine.
- Productive workflow: Seamless CAD to PRINT workflow in one single software tool.
- Associative Workflows: Less rework costs after changes – no need to re-assign Exposure Sets after part changes.
- To assign EOS Material Sets & Exposure Sets on part for trajectory computation.
- To display EOS trajectories and to parse the whole build job across layers and time.
- To generate task file for the printer.
Prerequisite
- To have EOSprint version corresponding to the requirements of your printer.
- Purpose: To be able to define process parameters.
Procedure
This video guides you from verifying model consistency to generating a task file for a specific 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 "MachineName", "MaterialFolder" & "NetworkAdress" custom parameters are defined.
MaterialFolder parameter must point to the EOS directory containing all exported MaterialSets (with an absolute path, e.g. \\\\YourMachine\\Documents\\EOS\\MaterialSets\\M400\\).
NetworkAdress parameter must be equal to the value given by EOS VM and located under Settings -> Communication -> IP Address
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 "eos" 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 and 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 EOS APIs.
15/ To open generated eos file in EOSprint.
15/ To review task file then send it for manufacturing.
Feel free to watch this video to understand how to display trajectories generated by EOS services:
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 EOSprint - Exposure Sets & Materials Sets - is imported as "build process" & "scan path" rule in the 3DEXPERIENCE. It means that you must first define the process parameters in EOSprint and export it to the directory folder - the one pointed by MaterialFolder cf. above procedure.
The "Generate output" command allows you to use both Exposure & Materials Sets parameters by assigning their associated "build process" & "scan path" rules on parts and supports.
How to extract configuration file from the printer
In the latest version of EOS Digital Twin of the M290 (and next printers), we are now offering various ways to generate task files.
- User can connect directly the 3DEXPERIENCE to the real EOS Machine on the shop floor by giving the IP address of this machine
- User can point to the configuration file extracted from the machine. By using this option, user will be able to generate task files but not directly send the print order to the machine.
Procedure:
In latest releases of EOSPRINT (from 2021), user is able to directly extract the configuration file. But, for releases older than 2021, user needs to follow a few steps to get this configuration file :
1. To get the machine configuration form the EOSPRINT version, which is connected to the machine you have to do 2 steps:
a. Copy the Config files of the specific machine where you want to build the job:
1) %appdata%
2) xxx\\AppData\\Roaming\\EOS\\EOSPRINT\\2_7\\ConfigFiles
3) Select directory of the right machine: SIxxx
4) Copy the directory: \\SIxx
b. Open the file user.config in AppData\\Local\\ und copy the section with the „Connection Data“ for the right machine:
Afterwards please got to the EOSPRINT version, which is not connected to a machine:
2. Copy and add the ConfigFiles-directory to the EOSPRINT ConfigFiles-directory of your (cloud-based or desktop) EOSPRINT.
3. Copy the „Connection Data“ into the User.Config of (cloud-based or desktop) EOSPRINT
