Siemens Product Lifecycle Management Software Inc.

Siemens Aktiengesellschaft

Siemens Industry Software Gmbh

Sunil Viswanathan

Raymond Kok

Sivarama Nalluri

Andreas Graichen

Siegmund Düll

Clemens Otte

Jonas Eriksson

Jerry Fornander

Felix Buggenthin

Mitchell Joblin

Axel Reitinger

Michael Caelers

Vincent Sidenvall

Victor Balanica

Yi Huang

Satyanarayana Guduru

The present invention provides an enhanced setup of a 3D-printing device, especially to a laser powder bed fusion 3D-printing device. It is for this purpose, that data relating to previously printed products are stored in a database. When a new product is to be printed, the features of the new product are matched with features of previously printed products stored in the database. Accordingly, a suggestion for setting-up the 3D-printing device based on corresponding previously printed products and their setup parameters can be automatically determined and applied to the 3D-printing device.

Method and apparatus for controlling a 3D-printing device and 3D-printing device

Various disclosed embodiments include a method for assigning a refined material definition to a designed part, the method performed by a data processing system and including accessing the designed part through the data processing system. The method also includes assigning one or more nominal material definitions (NMDs) of one or more materials to the designed part. The method further includes selecting one or more functional material definition variations (FMDVs) associated with the assigned NMD for the designed part in order to generate a refined material definition (RMD) for the designed part. The method includes generating the refined material definition (RMD) based on the NMD and the one or more FMDVs.

Refining of material definitions for designed parts

Various disclosed embodiments include a method for integrating material assignments between a computer-aided design (CAD) system and a product data management (PDM) or product lifecycle management (PLM) system, the method performed by a data processing system and comprising accessing a designed part in the CAD system, wherein the designed part includes one or more geometric entity objects. The method also comprising assigning one or more assignment objects from the PDM system to each of the one or more geometric entity objects. The method further comprising associating one or more material objects from the PDM system with the one or more assignment objects, wherein the one or more material objects identify one or more materials identified from the designed part. The method comprising generating a design object in the PDM system representing the designed part based on the one or more assignment objects and the one or more material objects.

Associating materials with bodies in a computer-aided design file

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Cypress, CA, United States of America

Sunil Viswanathan