Altair Inspire Print3D

Efficient Design for Additive Manufacturing

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Altair Inspire Print3D is an additive manufacturing (AM) product development and process simulation solution that
enables teams to enhance part quality and minimize lead time and AM costs by reducing material usage, print time
and post-processing. It provides a fast and accurate toolset for the design and process simulation of selective laser
melting (SLM) parts.

Additive Manufacturing (AM) is making the Benefits

move from capability to capacity. No longer
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development and additive manufacturing costs
extend even to the second line and affordable.
by reducing material usage, print times and
post-processing. It provides a fast and accurate
toolset for the design and process simulation Design Optimal Parts
of selective laser melting (SLM) parts. Create best performing designs for the
SLM process by applying advanced thermo-
Engineers can quickly understand changes to mechanical simulation to reduce post-
process or design that affect manufacturing processing and avoid expensive
efficiency then export part and support trial-and-error.
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software to produce the part.
Users can quickly gain deep manufacturing insights in a Inspire Print3D includes advanced thermo-mechanical 3D-printed prototype of the Protean 360+ suspension
process-driven user experience simulation for the SLM process. arm, designed and produced by M&H CNC Technik

Capabilities Materials and Printers The Inspire Print3D simulation workflow

Select from the growing library of additive comprises of seven process-driven steps:
Part and Support Design
manufacturing materials and standard print- 1. Select and prepare parts for 3D printing
Generate support structures as part of the
ers included or apply a variety of advanced 2. Configure the printer
design process; interactively create and edit
options for a customized setup. 3. Orient part(s)
supports within the same environment as the
4. Generate support structure
designed part.
Ready for Printing 5. Preview slices
Assess the part layer-by-layer to validate its 6. Export parts and supports for printing
Easy-to-learn Environment
geometry even before any 3D printing analy- 7. Run thermo-mechanical analysis
The intuitive, process-driven user experience
sis is performed, then export a file containing
enables users to gain deep manufacturing
the prepped part and supports. Available as a module of the standard Altair
insights quickly, driving faster and better
Inspire installation, Inspire Print3D includes
design decisions.
Scalable Solution the following I/O interfaces:
Process simulation scales almost linearly with Geometry Import Geometry Export
Printing Analysis
computation resources to reduce significantly • ACIS • IGES
Run the embedded thermo-mechanical solver
the time to attain accurate results, and allows • Catia (V4 & V5) • Parasolid
to accurately simulate the entire printing
end users to explore wide variety of • Creo • STEP
process from building and cooling to cutting
alternatives quickly. • IGES • STL
and springback. • Inventor
• JT
Identify Defects • Parasolid
Easily detect and plot defects - such as, part • Pro/E
distortion, excessive heating, and springback - • SolidWorks
to aid design or process modification. • STEP
• STL
• UG NX (Unigraphics)

“The introduction of Inspire Print3D adds new possibilities and greatly enhances the
capabilities for us to evaluate our designs and customer parts prior to manufacturing
in order to react accordingly to any arising problems upfront. Being able to make
unique parts correctly the first time is a competitive advantage promised with
Inspire Print3D.”
Dr. Jukka Pakkanen, additive manufacturing specialist
M&H CNC-TECHNIK GmbH

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