MATERIALS & PROCESS DEVELOPMENT FOR 3D metal printers

You control the laser

Make the most of laser powder bed manufacturing with new software that gives you more options than ever before for controlling your industrial 3D metal printer.

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Open your world to new materials, parts, and build rates

Overcome the physical challenges inherent in the physics of the metal manufacturing process

Speed build rate

Easily work with large multiple layer heights and print rates

Print intricate geometry

Manufacture small features, thin walls, domes, and cantilevers

Improve 3D printed part quality

Ensure material homogeneity, control surface roughness

Maximize flexibility

Meet angle-based print support requirements

Expand available materials

Develop new materials, alloys, and multi-materials

UNLOCK YOUR METAL 3D PRINTER POTENTIAL

You have a clear vision of what to create with your metal 3D printer. You just need to control the laser.

As a materials or process engineer, you have clear goals: effective thermal management and precise control over laser properties and toolpath geometries. Dyndrite's tools empower you to combine mathematical, geometrical, and computational expertise with your knowledge of chemistry, physics, and mechanics. With Dyndrite LPBF Pro's part querying and toolpath control features, you can address the physical aspects of laser-based 3D printing, create innovative material parameter sets, and achieve what was once considered impossible.

Use Dyndrite LPBF Pro to print with challenging materials such as GRCop-42.

Get the most flexible, controllable, and highest-performing toolpath generation tool available for maximizing the output of your industrial 3D metal printer. Your innovative parameter sets and strategies are your intellectual property.

Address manufacturing problems

Limited selection of available materials
Hard-to-print parts
Inefficient or slow build rates
Unacceptably poor part quality

Get greater design freedom
(without extensive DfAM)

Complex geometries
Intricate internal features
Avoid part warping

Account for print features

Extremely low print angles
Horizontal inner diameter holes
High aspect ratios
Thin walls
Fine surface finish

Improve 3D metal printer efficiency

Increase build throughput rates
Lase the core every th layer
Design for multi-optic systems
Use high layer-height strategies

Use Dyndrite LPBF Pro to finely control laser parameters, such as on the leading edge of blades. Build created by AMS. Printed on Renishaw RenAM500Q - read the case study.

PRAISE FOR DYNDRITE

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The Dyndrite toolpathing API has brought a new level of flexibility to our additive manufacturing processes. With increased control over our SLM machines, we can enhance material performance and cost-effectiveness in a high-quality manufacturing environment.
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Samuel Miller
Director, AM Software, Automotive Manufacturer

The ability to apply a range of multiple parameters to geometry means a wider range of printable parts, without supports. Build created and printed by Elementum3D using their A2024-RAM2C material on an Nikon SLM 280 HL (Single Laser).

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DYNDRITE LPBF PRO FEATURES - MATERIALS & PROCESS DEVELOPMENT

Sophisticated Scan Path and Process Control for Better Material Properties

Success in metal printing hinges on precise control of laser parameters (power, speed, focus), toolpath geometric parameters (see toolpathing API), and toolpath sorting based on factors like powder material, layer height, gas flow, and the specific geometry being printed.

Control the laser in your 3D metal printer

Develop your own parameter set based on your 3D geometry. You define the laser power, speed, hatch distance, sort order, downskins, upskins, and more.

Works with top 3D metal printers and file types

Use materials and process development for LPBF directly with the additive manufacturing machines and file types you prefer (see sidebar).

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Notable Capabilities & Features

Develop custom parameter strategies
Segment parts in the Z direction based on height
Vary slice height and build rate
Customize hatch vector generation
Apply vector sorting controls (based on gasflow, area, centroid, etc.)
Develop multi-optic strategies
Create inward and outward shelling
Create design of experiments build recipes for fast iterations

Drive popular 3D metal printers

Aconity3D
EOS
Renishaw
SLM
Xact Metal
More coming soon

Output to a variety of file types

Select native proprietary machine formats when provided by machine vendor
CLI/CLI+
Mesh based formats
(STL, etc.)
OVF‍

Develop & keep your IP

Develop innovative toolpath strategies that set your business apart, and secure your ownership of these innovations through patents.

why dyndrite

Why Dyndrite for your material and process workflow?

Regardless of the process, the primary objective is to enhance the efficiency, quality, and variety of producible parts and materials by applying precise compensations and toolpath parameters. These compensations involve adjusting laser settings (such as scan velocity, focus, and power), geometric parameters (like hatch distance, offset distance, and stripe width), and the sort order of exposure.

Dyndrite offers a user-friendly set of APIs that allow you to create scanpath geometry based on the part's specific location, apply customized laser settings to this geometry, and meticulously control the sequence in which the laser interacts with the geometry. This empowers you to devise your own recipes based on geometry, which can be employed on a layer-by-layer basis, either per feature or within a designated area in the geometry. Dyndrite provides comprehensive control over your geometry vector process, ensuring effective first-time prints, accelerated production rates, and superior part quality.

Achieving the optimal compensation for a particular part necessitates advanced analysis of the geometry. Depending on the part's internal depth and the angle of the nearest surface, different laser and geometric toolpath parameters may be required. For example, you might choose to expose the core of a part only every fourth layer with high hatch distance and laser power to maximize productivity, reduce porosity, and enhance material properties. Simultaneously, you may decide to expose specific downskins every other layer with lower laser power and hatch spacing to prevent distortion, dross, and interactions with part powder. Finally, the outer contours may need to be exposed every layer to achieve the desired surface finish.
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Dyndrite facilitates this advanced analysis through GPU-accelerated volumetric segmentation. This segmentation enables you to break down any geometry into distinct areas of interest, as indicated by different colors. Subsequently, you can adjust laser and geometric toolpath parameters for each color.

Dyndrite's volumetric geometric feature detection empowers users to precisely define custom build recipes and process parameters to achieve desired results.

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Use Dyndrite LPBF Pro to print with challenging materials such as GRCop-42.

Compensate for machine variability

Hardware and material compensations refer to machine-specific adjustments within the manufacturing process, which are addressed during the qualification and calibration process. These adjustments pertain to the settings of the 3D metal printer, taking into consideration the unique characteristics of each machine and the specific materials in use.

For instance, individual machines may exhibit variations, necessitating the application of custom scaling to parts depending on their location within the printing volume.

Compensations are based on:

Hardware (gas flow/bed conditions and part location)
Material (powder)
Geometry of the part itself
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why dyndrite for industrial 3d metal printing

Discover the Dyndrite difference

Dyndrite’s Materials and Process Development for LPBF software includes advances not found elsewhere in the additive manufacturing industry.

Multi-threaded CPU and GPU-driven performance

At the foundation of all of Dyndrite solutions lies the Dyndrite Accelerated Computation Engine (ACE). ACE is the world’s first multi-threaded, GPU-accelerated geometry kernel for industrial 3D printing. It provides a modern approach to computing that can handle whatever multi-gigabyte files and large part counts you give it—at screaming fast speeds.

3D volumetric segmentation

Dyndrite performs advanced analysis into parts via volumetric segmentation. With this approach, the system breaks up CAD geometry into 3D areas of interest instead of using the more common 2.5D layers—a method that often misses part features such as abrupt geometric changes, and can be unstable and error-prone.

Dyndrite LPBF technology easily creates discrete zones in parts so you can develop a robust build strategy, resolving large and small features at the resolution of your machine. This leads to high throughput in thicker sections, reduces the need for complex supports, and enables you to work with new materials and special alloys.

Advanced toolpath control for better parts, faster

Dyndrite gives you control over laser parameters (focus, power, speed) and toolpath geometric parameters. It also lets you manage toolpath sort order based on powder material, the layer height, gasflow, and the geometry being printed.

Native CAD files throughout the workflow

Materials & Process Development for LPBF works with native 3D CAD geometry. Maintain the integrity of native CAD-based spline and B-rep data throughout the entire workflow while using metadata to automate your workflow.

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3D Volumetric Segmentation

Example Output

PRAISE FOR DYNDRITE

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Dyndrite unlocked a new dimension of flexibility for our additive manufacturing processes. The additional control over our SLM machines enables us to achieve better material performance and cost productivity in a high-quality manufacturing environment

Samuel Miller
Director, AM Software, Automotive Manufacturer

Downskins, 5 distance thresholds pictured

Upskins, 5 distance thresholds pictured

Distance based inskin, 5 distance thresholds pictured

*Dyndrite's 3D volumetric segmentation goes beyond conventional layer-by-layer Boolean toolpathing techniques. It employs a voxel engine for sophisticated 3D geometric analysis of a part. In the provided example, the system identifies thin features through 3D geometric analysis, allowing you to adjust machine parameters for upskin, downskin, and thin feature regions accordingly.