NX Additive Manufacturing

Siemens NX provides capability to develop various tools within the CAD software through NX Open with the help of NX API functions. With the help of this capability, a set of stand-alone pre-processing tools with GUI’s have been developed. The toolset comprises of the capabilities to achieve effective builds in Additive Manufacturing such as support structure generation, support structure accessibility, orientation optimization, detecting and highlighting features that are difficult to manufacture based on DFAM violations and prediction of build parameters.