Additive Manufacturing Software Solutions - 3D Printing Software File Healing

Whether you are a 3D printer manufacturer developing a software solution to enhance your 3D printer, or an independent software vendor (ISV) supplying 3D modeling solutions to the additive manufacturing industry, you are faced with similar issues:

Increasing demand for market differentiation
The need for improved time-to-market to meet the needs of end users
Demands for better interoperability
Pressure to control development budgets

Spatial brings over 30 years of modeling expertise to the partnership, helping both additive manufacturing OEMs and ISVs solve these issues and bring world-class solutions to the market.

We worked with Ultimaker to enable the import and export of native 3D CAD files in addition to STL files, enabling higher precision throughout their 3D printing workflows.

Watch Nicolas Boireau explain how CGM software enables querying, analysis, healing, and editing of exact and polyhedral BRep geometry. With out-of-the-box operators such as wall thickness analysis, feature recognition, and support generation.

This results in a smoother 3D printing experience for Ultimakers end users, further automating geometry preparation for printing processes, reducing cost and time to print per part, and improving print quality.

Spatial software development toolkits optimize the additive manufacturing workflow, utilizing innovative hybrid modeling capabilities to access and modify precise and polyhedral data.

This enables new innovations across the manufacturing process, including product design, importing data, model healing and modification, customization, support definition, slicing, , finishing, simulation, and analysis. A growing number of solution providers rely on 3D software development toolkits from Spatial to build applications that differentiate their product offerings.

This revolution in manufacturing, with new capabilities to realize complex designs, demands software purpose-built for additive manufacturing data and workflows. The leaders of this industry revolution rely on the industry-leading precise modeling kernels that Spatial has been innovating for 30 years. Loading, designing, editing, file healing & file repair, and managing the lifecycle of a 3D model for printing are critical steps, and with increased production volumes and complexity, maintaining high quality through automation is paramount.

Spatial's solution is able to optimize this workflow and allow for seamless translation from precise and polygonal models to the printer’s machine code, and ultimately the final product, while maintaining data integrity throughout the 3D model’s lifecycle.

Spatial develops both the 3D modeler and interoperability together. We are the only provider developing the multiple core technologies needed for additive manufacturing applications providing more robust support of the critical workflows.
We are pioneering the technologies required to enable the manufacturing 4.0 revolution, such as our Hybrid modeling solution that delivers innovative modeling flexibility where customization and design freedom are paramount.
Manufacturing depends on the model. As the 3D modeling experts, no other solution consistently delivers higher quality imported models.
Partnering with Spatial gives you complete control of your schedule and intellectual property (IP)

Be the Master of Your Own Destiny

Spatial provides the software development tools needed to develop your own software solutions, allowing you to control your solution. No longer do you need to wait for third-party support for unique capabilities of your equipment, or be constrained by the least common denominator of features. Defining your own software application allows you to create a unique product solution. Spatial SDKs allow you to build a tightly integrated solution using an industry-standard modeling kernel, including sophisticated additive manufacturing software components, with a minimum of investment and risk.

Improve User Experience

The user experience needs to be smooth with the software being tightly coupled with how the machine works.

We give you the tools you need to build the one application to cover the entire user workflow so users do not have to switch applications or use multiple applications to get the job done.

Protect Your IP

Working with a third-party application developer necessitates exposing your IP to the software vendor who may also be your competitor, leading to risks that your unique solution may be available to your competitors. Building a solution in house using Spatial SDKs allow you to expose your best to your customer without risking exposing your IP to your competitors.

Improve Your Time to Market

Are your product introductions hamstrung by third-party software vendors who aren’t keeping pace with your innovation? Clearly, their business goals do not always align with yours. By developing your own software solution, you can ensure your software support is in sync with your hardware capabilities. And using Spatial SDKs help you control both schedule and cost.

Focus on Your Value-Adds

By employing Spatial SDKs, your in-house experts can focus their efforts on product differentiators rather than developing and maintaining a modeling kernel or file translator updates. Moreover, your value-adds benefit from Spatial’s 30 years of experience as well as the experience of millions of end users.

Forget About Translation

The key to any independent software solution is interoperability. But with so many different formats, each with regular updates, supporting, updating, and testing file translators is a huge task. Relying on Spatial for interoperability provides you the ability to seamlessly support a wide range of formats, as well as greatly reducing the need for QA testing before release.

Get to Market Faster

With Spatial SDKs, your team can focus on what makes your software unique. You'll no longer need a specialized team of hard-to-find modeling developers. The size of your code base is reduced, making your developers more productive, and improving overall code quality. Moreover, you benefit from future innovation by Spatial, all without additional investment in development costs.

Renishaw Case Study

While .STL files have historically been the standard used by the industry, it is well known that this format can causes issues, typically with broken STLs that need healing, or with low triangle density impacting print quality. A far better approach is to work on the original native geometry, preserving the original design intent of the model. By integrating Spatial SDKs into QuantAM 2017, Renisahw will continue to enable users to build part right the first time.

The Benefits of Using SDK Technologies

Software development toolkits (SDKs) are now used by almost every CAD/CAM vendor in one form or another. Popular applications included 3D geometric modeling, data translation, visualization, toolpath generation and simulation.

Why are SDKs so popular in the CAD/CAM industry? This white paper takes a look at SDK technology, the benefits and return on investment.