Additive Manufacturing

DEFORM benefits

Cost reduction
Reject reduction
Production and delivery time reduction
Component design improvement
Component efficiency improvement
Production of defect-free objects with reduced residual stresses

Additive Manufacturing: What it is

Additive Manufacturing consists of a set of processes for the creation of components, starting from their 3D CAD models, through the binding of material through layer overlapping, then proceeding on the contrary to traditional subtractive processes to remove swarf.

Additive manufacturing allows you to build the workpiece through the application of thin metal powder layers melted or sintered by a laser until the complete formation of the workpiece. This technology is used to make shapes, even very complex, designed to achieve greater lightness, while keeping strength intact and guaranteeing the required properties.

Additive Manufacturing simulation: How it works

SFTC, the US company that produces DEFORM software, has developed a new simulation module dedicated to selective laser sintering processes and fused deposition modelling.

DEFORM allows you to design components in 3D printing that meet dimensional and structural requirements, taking account of the specificity of the selected printing technology.

Tools which integrate the structural analysis and material design are required by the aerospace and automotive industry to speed up the introduction of additive manufacturing, to allow for innovative designs so as to achieve the goal of weight reduction, which is essential nowadays. DEFORM allows you to make virtual samplings to verify, on the computer, that the component made by additive manufacturing is compliant.

DEFORM simulates the effects of thermal energy, showing the thermal map of the component. These data allow to determine both the deformation and influence of the base plate.

For the purchase, hire or a DEMO of the software or if you want to take advantage of a simulation service specially-made by our technical department, write or call us at +39 030 3365383

References

DEFORM: A software to combat expensive energy

22/02/2022

Additive Manufacturing

Ecotre Valente from Brescia proposes DEFORM to optimize costs through process simulations
Not only reductions in shiftwork and production in the lower cost ranges, energy savings can also come from a simple one software.
A popular saying goes that "necessity sharpens the wits", meaning that when you are in critical conditions it is a process of nature find new solutions to problems, and in this case to costs.
Precisely in the face of the expensive energy Ecotre Valente, it has decided to offer its customers a new weapon represented by the software DEFORM for the simulation of energy consumption in furnaces...
Article in Talian

Eliminate scrap and defects with simulation

29/12/2021

Additive Manufacturing

The webinar dedicated to the novelties in the simulation of hot and cold forming, coining, drawing, shearing, rolling, forging, drawing, extrusion, welding with the new software DEFORM 2021 and organized by the Brescia-based company will be held on Thursday 1 July 2021.
Article in Italian

Central watch case sintering simulation – Software DEFORM

10/12/2021

Additive Manufacturing

Since 2000 DEFORM has been simulating sintering processes. DEFORM allows using a tool owned by ECOTRE to create a counter deformation to correct the deformations obtained during sintering.
Article in Italian

Demand for the “virtual factory” rises

02/12/2021

Additive Manufacturing

Ecotre Valente from Brescia distributes simulation software. Growing more than 20% annually in the last 5 years
It is a matter of time. The simulation software for casting, forging, rolling, heat treatment and machining allow to expand or compress it: ingots of tons that take days, to give just one example, can be reduced and evaluated in a few minutes; conversely, steps of a few thousandths can be analyzed in hundreds of seconds. But the time factor today is also the key to the diffusion process of these virtualization programs of the production cycle. "It's only a matter of time: even in the world of steel, the tools that allow the virtual reality of production processes will be widespread."
Article in Italian

Ecotre-Techne: simulation and tomography

16/06/2018

Additive Manufacturing

Create virtual twins. Also virtualization did leaps and bounds, permitting to recreate with a precision that touches 100% an object directly on the monitor of a pc.
Article in Italian