Hexagon’s Manufacturing Intelligence division announced a new solution with Stratasys to help manufacturers in the aerospace sector boost confidence in the performance and safety of 3D printed plastic components and compress time to market. Through the virtual engineering and manufacturing support provided by the partnership, customers will be able to reduce a two-to-three-year timescale of designing and testing a part to six-to-nine months.
Through the new partnership, users of Stratasys’ ULTEM 9085 filament can now use Hexagon’s Digimat material modeling software. The software helps engineers predict how parts made from ULTEM 9085 filament may behave when made using approved Stratasys printers. This is made possible through a highly accurate virtual material model jointly developed by the two companies through physical testing that includes detailed information about the material’s internal microstructure. The software’s process simulation capabilities help manufacturers avoid defects such as the delineation of warpage of a part and analyze the print time and material cost for the proprietary printer toolpaths of these machines to achieve an optimal result.
该解决方案为航空工程师提供了许多好处：
- 信心 - 飞机需要符合严格的法规，制造商必须说服并证明监管机构的零件如何表现。尽管这以前意味着多年的测试，但现在通过Digimat（通过Digimat）可以使用经过验证的分析工具，工程师可以使用该工具来信心预测零件的行为。
–Faster speed to market – By improving understanding of material performance and reducing the number of physical prototype iterations, the timescales of the development and introduction of new parts – and therefore aircraft – can be significantly compressed, accelerating in innovation.
–Better的理解 - 到目前为止，工程师一直无法理解材料属性如何通过工具路径应用工具路径，在复杂的几何部分上逐层逐层应用工具路径。这导致了耗时且昂贵的测试过程，使用基于材料优惠券的破坏性测试而不是实际的几何形状的数据集，这意味着测试永远不会对材料的性能充满信心。
In addition, since they can explore more iterations of a part in a shorter amount of time, engineers can gain a greater understanding of what will work on the market.
–Sustainable design – Engineers can validate that a part can be 3D printed and make optimal use of materials to lightweight aircraft or spacecraft.
ULTEM 9085细丝用于生产飞机机舱内部的零件，例如括号，电缆路由的零件，盖子和管道组件，所有这些都需要符合严格的认证，例如易燃性和毒性。空中客车公司在这些应用程序中使用了FDM技术，可以追溯到2014年。一些客户还使用了化妆品飞机室内设计中的材料，例如Diehl Aviation，它使用它来创建窗帘标题，以分裂空中客车A350的机舱课程。
ULTEM 9085树脂是一种耐火的高性能热塑性，具有高强度重量比，出色的耐热性和高冲击强度，并且具有有利的火焰，烟雾和毒性（FST）特征。
现在可以由Digimat材料建模软件的客户访问虚拟工程解决方案。Stratasys客户可以通过其材料交换功能并直接从其Stratasys Insight软件中导入工具路径，要求访问详细的专有材料卡。
提交以下：快速制作零件
