3D SDKs for Additive Manufacturing
your challenges
Key Challenges in Software Development
for Additive Manufacturing
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Printability
Address common issues such as incorrect geometry, thin walls, missing faces, and orientation to ensure models are ready for 3D printing.
Interoperability
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Data Integrity
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Time to Market
Meet customer demands by streamlining development processes to deliver solutions. faster.
Discover Our Full Suite of Solutions for Additive Manufacturing
Seamless CAD Import with 3D InterOp
Spatial’s additive manufacturing toolkit includes 3D InterOp, which enables top-notch CAD import and expertly handles B-rep geometry and non-exact geometry. It enables your application to work with an extensive breadth of CAD formats in a seamless, unified way.
Advanced B-rep and Polyhedral Modeling capabilities
CGM, our robust Modeler, and its add-on, CGM Polyhedra, provide modeling capabilities like geometric feature recognition, defeaturing, direct editing of B-rep, healing and cleaning. Features smaller than printer resolution often have to be added to the part by machining after the print. Geometric functionality allows the software to automatically identify and remove features below printer resolution and drive secondary machining operations using information about small hole positions and sizes.
Efficient Printing with Thin-Walled Solids
Printing solid geometry often uses excess material and generates thermal distortion during cooling. Thin-walled solids allow printing of the same external shape using less material and generating less heat. Spatial’s industry-leading 3D modelers provide a full boundary representation of the 3D models, enabling you to shell solid bodies with controlled wall thickness before printing—and specify extra thicknesses in load-bearing regions.
Enable Manufacturing at Scale
Enable manufacturing at scale by nesting multiple instances of a part in a pre-defined space. 2D and 3D nesting allows for orientation and nesting of parts in all three directions. Minimize material costs by automatically orienting the part to optimize support material volume. This is commonly used by 3D printing applications where support generation isn’t required.
Support Generation for Metal Print Processes
Improve heat dissipation and automatically generate supports with automatic Support Zone Computation, wire (non-solid) supports, and cone and volume (solid) supports. This is highly suitable for metal print processes like PBF.
1. File open
- Native & Standards
- B-Rep & Mesh Attribution
- PMI, etc.
2. Analyze & Constrain
- Healing
- Repair
- Detect Features
- Check Wall Thickness
3. Prepare for Print
- Geometry edit or creation
- Offsetting & Hollowing
- Lattice Generation
- Simplification
- Defeaturing
4. Printing
- Optimized Orientation & Nesting
- Automatic Support Generation
- Slicing
5. Post Process & Share
- Part Finishing
- Output CAD
- Drawings
- HLR
- Web Visualization, etc.
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Features Made for Additive
Manufacturing Workflows
Our solutions have specific functionality built in that targets the unique needs of AM
software companies. Whether you’re an OEM of 3D printers or an ISV in the AM industry, our
SDKs will help you meet your development goals.
software companies. Whether you’re an OEM of 3D printers or an ISV in the AM industry, our
SDKs will help you meet your development goals.
Comprehensive Data Import and Automatic Healing
3D InterOp supports the import of various CAD data formats. It ensures the accurate import of B-Rep or Polyhedral CAD data and allows for efficient data extraction, including geometry and metadata.
Some supported CAD formats are STL, 3MF, OBJ, AMF, CATIA, SolidWorks, NX, STEP and IGES. See the full list here (Link the 3D interop page)
ACIS and CGM Polyhedra offer automatic healing capabilities to ensure dirty STL data can be easily repaired and made ready for printing.
Wall Thickness Analysis
The wall thickness analysis tool reduces the need for multiple print iterations. Build a pre-processor in your application that helps verify the structure of the final print beforehand, ensuring strength and stability in the printed parts.
Identify and correct regions that are thick and causing heat build-up, regions that are thin and structurally unsound, and sharp edges and corners that the process may not support.
Feature Recognition and Automatic Defeaturing
This feature allows for easy editing of models in the preprocessing phase. It includes feature recognition and automatic defeaturing, simplifying necessary design modifications.
Allow detection of geometric features like holes, fillets and pockets.
Hollowing Operations
By using our Hollowing feature, you can reduce the amount of material used to print an object, lowering material costs, especially for large parts. Less material means also less printing time, speeding up the overall manufacturing process.
Advanced Automatic 2D, 2.5D and 3D Nesting for Efficient Manufacturing
Our automatic 2D, 2.5D and 3D Nesting feature significantly enhances manufacturing efficiency by enabling the precise placement of multiple part instances within a predefined space.
This feature achieves a tighter fit than traditional bounding box methods, reducing the need for support material and optimizing material use.
Parts are automatically oriented to prevent interlocking and facilitate easier post-processing. Additionally, you can customize nesting zones and designate exclusion areas, tailoring the layout to specific production needs.
Automatic Support Generation
This technology computes support zones and offers multiple support shapes, ensuring that each print is adequately supported for quality results. This process is highly suitable for metal print processes like PBF.
Support zone shapes: Wire (non-solid) Supports, Cone and Volume (solid) Supports.
Advanced Slicing
You can rapidly generate 2D slices (multi-planar and non-planar slicing, and wire cross sections) of the 3D model to feed into your toolpath generation module.
Why Work With Spatial SDKs?
Spatial SDKs support the entire 3D model lifecycle within your 3D printing
software. Combined with our expert guidance, you’ll benefit from unique perks
that carry through to your bottom line.
software. Combined with our expert guidance, you’ll benefit from unique perks
that carry through to your bottom line.
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Exclusive Access to Multiple Core Technologies
Spatial develops both the 3D modeler and interoperability solution together. We’re the only provider developing the multiple core technologies required for additive manufacturing applications.
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Work With a Solution Advisor
Collaborate with a trusted industry expert on development plans that meet your needs. Tap into 35+ years of industry experience with Spatial.
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Access to Industry-Specific APIs
Streamline workflows with manufacturing-specific APIs including automatic orientation and nesting, and automatic support generation.
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Accelerate Your Innovation
Create space to innovate your strategy and improve your product. By leveraging Spatial SDKs to build your software, you’ll have more time to focus on differentiation, accelerate your time to market and increase margins while maintaining your intellectual property.
Our collaboration with Spatial now allows us to not only perform high-quality healing on STL files but, more importantly, to import various CAD formats directly.
Stephen Anderson, Director of Group Software, Renishaw
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