ANSYS (NASDAQ: ANSS) is transforming how the aerospace and defense, biotech and automotive industries manufacture metal parts with its new offerings for metal additive manufacturing. ANSYS Additive Print and ANSYS Additive Suite enable users to print lightweight complex metal parts successfully the first time and analyze microstructure properties and behavior. These programs can reduce the cost of additive manufacturing by reducing waste and shrinking print time.

ANSYS’ complete additive simulation workflow streamlines the manufacturing process, empowering customers to quickly test their product designs virtually before printing a part. By incorporating simulation prior to the printing process, designers can design, test and validate the performance of a part at the design stage before turning on the printer, which greatly reduces the high cost of physical trial and error.

ANSYS Additive Print shows exactly what will occur during the printing process — informing designers, prior to printing, if a part will fail; and how, where and why it will fail.

“ANSYS empowers us to reimagine how we build and fly rockets,” said Jordan Noone, chief technology officer and co-founder, Relativity Space. “We’re using additive manufacturing to build the world’s largest 3D printer and we’re using that printer to 3D print a rocket. With ANSYS’ streamlined additive manufacturing solutions, we iterate designs 10x faster and with 100x fewer parts — we’re innovating in ways that many thought were impossible.”

ANSYS Additive Suite enables designers to optimize weight reduction and lattice density; create, repair and clean up CAD geometry; simulate the additive process and conduct structural and thermal analysis for data validation.

“ANSYS is committed to transforming how products are made through additive manufacturing by delivering the most powerful, complete solution in the space,” said Brent Stucker, director of additive manufacturing, ANSYS. “The possibilities are endless. Our technology spurs the efficient creation of parts for some of the world’s most demanding applications, including military machines on foreign soil, spacecraft on other planets and even custom-printed human body parts at hospitals.”

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