3D Printing

Siemens’ Parasolid software includes tools for convergent modeling and lattice structures

The latest improvements in Parasolid software from Siemens Digital Industries Software can help engineers solve tough technical challenges when implementing 3D printing and scanning based workflows.

Additive manufacturing (3D-printing) allows the production of components with complex geometries and interior cavities, thus making it possible to realize innovative product designs and components for lightweight construction. Siemens is driving the industrialization of additive manufacturing through the further development of its automation and control technologies and industry software.

Advances in Convergent Modeling give engineers greater efficiency in workflows that need to mix facet and B-rep geometry, while new functional foundations have been implemented to support lattice structures. Additive manufacturing techniques are now bringing the performance benefits of lattice structures into production, driving new requirements for lattice modeling in the design process. Vendors of design and manufacturing software applications that license Parasolid can help deliver the benefits of new lattice modeling functionality to their customers.

The Parasolid geometric modeling kernel is used in Siemens’ Solid Edge software and NX software and is at the core of the Xcelerator portfolio’s open and flexible ecosystem. Parasolid is also used by over 350 other products including many world-leading CAD/CAM/CAE/AEC software applications.

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