CREO Additive Manufacturing
Additive Manufacturing
What is additive manufacturing? Why is it important?
Additive manufacturing (AM) is the process of creating a physical model of a digital CAD 3D model by building up layers of material using a 3D printer. Compared with “3D printing,” AM is typically associated with industrial and manufacturing applications.
With Creo, you can innovate faster, improve time to market, and reduce expense by using AM for prototypes, fixtures, and production parts. Design, optimize, and print with ease, all within the Creo design environment.
Design for additive manufacturing
AM is not a stand-in for traditional manufacturing methods. It’s a new way of looking at product design. Design for additive manufacturing (DfAM) leverages the transformational power of AM to provide engineers and designers with the tools needed to achieve highly complex designs that break the barriers set by traditional manufacturing.
Benefits of additive manufacturing
With Creo additive manufacturing, you can develop innovative designs, optimize, and print to a variety of printers with ease, all within Creo. With no more time-consuming, error-ridden hassle of multiple software packages, you can reduce time-to-market and expense with rapid prototyping and enable part consolidation.
Creo additive manufacturing extensions feature enhanced lattice capabilities with the Delaunay stochastic algorithm and hard-edge definition, enabling lattice modeling, print tray optimization, and metal printing with support structures.
Innovate faster
Improve time to market
Reduce expense
Innovate faster with Creo additive manufacturing
See what’s possible when you design for additive manufacturing. Only Creo gives you the power and flexibility you need to design, optimize, validate, and run a print check all in one environment. Watch this webinar and learn how to close the gap between 3D CAD and design for additive manufacturing.
Additive manufacturing print technologies
There are several fundamental printer technologies, each optimized for specific materials and desired outcomes. Fortunately, Creo makes it easy to 3D print to a wide variety of brands and types of printers.
Industry applications
Additive manufacturing and Creo Parametric
You can seamlessly design, optimize, validate, and run a print check, all within the same environment. With no more of the time-consuming, error-ridden hassle of multiple software packages, you can reduce time to market, improve part performance, and accelerate innovation, whether you’re looking at prototyping or final part production. These extensions feature enhanced lattice capabilities with the addition of stochastic lattices based on the Delaunay algorithm, hard-edge definition, and the ability to create lattice structures using custom cells, thereby enabling highly complex parts that cannot be produced using traditional manufacturing.
Additive manufacturing capabilities
- Create parametrically controlled lattice structures and fully detailed parts with accurate mass properties.
- Identify printability issues in your design
- Scale, position, and show a clipped view of the model and probable support material on the tray
- Automatically optimize the position of the model in the tray for printing
- Define profiles for multiple supported printers
- Modify, manage, and save print tray assemblies
- Assign materials and colors, calculate build and material consumption, and print directly from Creo to supported 3D printers
- Connect directly to service bureaus—such as i.materialise—for access to more than 100 materials
- With variability control, you can reinforce the lattices how you wish (requires extension)
Creo additive extensions
1. Creo additive manufacturing extension
Maximize design performance with lattice creation and optimization. Direct connection to Stratasys, 3D Systems, and Materialise library printers, as well as i.materialise and 3D systems on demand online print service bureaus.
2. Creo additive manufacturing advanced extension for Materialise
Direct connection to metal printers in the Materialise library and automatically generate metal support structures using Materialise Magics. Optimize design performance and cost with lattice creation.