Digital thread allows users to simulate machine builds, part production

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Digital thread allows users to simulate machine builds, part production

Siemens has developed a fully integrated digital thread between its NX software suite of CAD and CAM products and SINUMERIK control technology for additive and subtractive manufacturing. Using Create MyVirtual Machine and Run MyVirtual Machine digital twin technology, the system allows additive machine builders and users to fully digitalize the machine build (including software systems, post-processors, part programs, HMIs, and Edge devices), as well as machine commissioning and manufacturing process in a virtual world, long before the actual machine build or first part production begins.

As industrial additive manufacturing (AM) shifts toward more final part production, Siemens saw the need to create a full digital thread allowing CAM toolpaths, generated by NX, to interface with the virtual controller and run time code, complete with 3D machine kinematics, code execution, machine parameterization, visualization of material deposition and removal, and other real world characteristics.

The flexibility of NX to simulate hybrid scenarios combines with the SINUMERIK virtual controller to provide a comprehensive look at the machine’s characteristics and the production process.

Siemens
https://www.siemens.com

3D printer offers temperature control for multi-material printing

The CORE One is the latest addition to Prusa’s line of 3D printers, featuring a fully enclosed frame with active chamber temperature control up to 55°C. It uses a CoreXY kinematic system and offers increased speed and more compact design compared to previous releases, while maintaining a large print volume of 250mm x 220mm x 270mm.

The printer’s temperature control feature allows users to print with materials from standard PLA and PETG to more advanced polymers. Its robust, stable design is intended to last for years, yet in line with Prusa’s open source philosophy users can modify their printers with only a screwdriver. The CORE One can be operated fully offline, and the open source firmware updated offline as well for added security. Prusa will offer a Conversion Kit allowing users to transform their Original Prusa MK4S 3D printers into CORE One models.

Prusa Research
https://www.prusa3d.com