CAxMan Computer Aided Technologies for Additive Manufacturing

Summary

More specifically the objectives are to establish analysis-based design approaches with the following aims:

To reduce material usage by 12% through introducing internal cavities and voids, whilst maintaining component properties;
To optimize distribution and grading of material for multi-material additive manufacturing processes; and
To facilitate the manufacture of components which are currently impossible or very difficult to produce by subtractive processes (e.g., cutting and abrasive operations);
To enhance analysis-based process planning for additive manufacturing including thermal and stress aspects, and their interoperability with the design phase;
To enable the compatibility of additive and subtractive processes in production in order to combine the flexibility of shape in additive manufacturing with the surface finish of subtractive processes.

CAxMan delivers:

Cloud Portal in form of a market place - of Cloud application and services addressing the design, analysis, production chain for additive manufacturing. Hence, all necessary software components to act a Broker of such services will be developed in CAxMan. ARCTUR will host the marketplace.
An ecosystem of Open Source of algorithmic toolkits for additive manufacturing will be established during the life time of the project, in order to enable sustainability of the marketplace after the project duration, SINTEF will trigger the Open Source community.
Lessons Learned and practical pattern collections of quantifiable advantages of findings with respect to interoperable model representations for the design production chain for Additive Manufacturing
Proposed extension to ISO 10303 (STEP) Part 242 edition 2, and byISO / ASTM52915

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Demonstrators, pilots, prototypes

Result items:

CAxMan Cloud demonstrator

D5.6 Metrology workflow for AM workpieces, including WP6 task integrated into sub workflows targeting the different use cases

D6.6 NC workflow for AM workpieces, including WP6 task integrated into sub workflows targeting the different use cases

More information & hyperlinks

Web resources:	http://www.caxman.eu/ https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/680448
Start date:	09-01-2015
End date:	31-08-2018
Total budget - Public funding:	7 143 300,00 Euro - 7 143 300,00 Euro

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Original description

The objectives of Computer Aided Technologies for Additive Manufacturing (CAxMan) are to establish Cloud based Toolboxes, Workflows and a One Stop-Shop for CAx-technologies supporting the design, simulation and process planning for additive manufacturing. More specifically the objectives are to establish analysis-based design approaches with the following aims:
-To reduce material usage by 12% through introducing internal cavities and voids, whilst maintaining component properties;
-To optimize distribution and grading of material for multi-material additive manufacturing processes; and
-To facilitate the manufacture of components which are currently impossible or very difficult to produce by subtractive processes (e.g., cutting and abrasive operations);
-To enhance analysis-based process planning for additive manufacturing including thermal and stress aspects, and their interoperability with the design phase;
-To enable the compatibility of additive and subtractive processes in production in order to combine the flexibility of shape in additive manufacturing with the surface finish of subtractive processes.
CAxMan delivers:
-Cloud Portal in form of a market place - of Cloud application and services addressing the design, analysis, production chain for additive manufacturing. Hence, all necessary software components to act a Broker of such services will be developed in CAxMan. ARCTUR will host the marketplace.
-An ecosystem of Open Source of algorithmic toolkits for additive manufacturing will be established during the life time of the project, in order to enable sustainability of the marketplace after the project duration, SINTEF will trigger the Open Source community.
-Lessons Learned and practical pattern collections of quantifiable advantages of findings with respect to interoperable model representations for the design production chain for Additive Manufacturing
-Proposed extension to ISO 10303 (STEP) Part 242 edition 2, and byISO / ASTM52915

Status

CLOSED

Url

https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/680448

Call topic

FoF-08-2015

Update Date

27-10-2022

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FoF and Made in Europe Partnership

Factories of the Future Partnership - Made in Europe Partnership

Report - Video - Presentation - Publication....?

Result items:

CAxMan Cloud demonstrator

D1.10 Interoperability year 3

D1.2 Initial requirements to revision Cloud Infrastructure

D1.4 Interoperability year 1

D1.5 Intermediate requirements to Cloud Infrastructure

D1.7 Interoperability year 2

D1.8 Final requirements to Cloud Infrastructure

D2.1 Requirements: Design for Additive Manufacturing

D2.2 IGA based shape representation, initial version

D2.3 Analysis tools for AM, linear setting

D2.4 Shape representation for AM

D2.5 Analysis tools for AM, non-linear setting non-linear setting

D2.7 Interactive design and design workflows for AM

D3.1 Requirements: Process planning for AM

D3.2 AM process planning workflows

D3.4 AM process plan assessment

D4.1 Specifications for thermal and stress analysis

D4.3 Validation strategy for thermal analysis of MD process

D4.5 Validation strategy for residual stress evaluation induced by the MD process

D4.7 Manufacturing Chain

D5.6 Metrology workflow for AM workpieces, including WP6 task integrated into sub workflows targeting the different use cases

D6.1 Requirements: NC in Additive Manufacturing

D6.6 NC workflow for AM workpieces, including WP6 task integrated into sub workflows targeting the different use cases

D8.1 The Innovation Shop Portal

D8.2 The Business Model Infrastructure

D9.1 Project Logo and graphic identity

D9.2 Project Web Site and Project Presentation

D9.3 Report on Standardization – Year 1

D9.4 Outreach plan for Year 2

D9.5 Report on Standardization – Year 2

D9.6 Outreach plan for Year 3

D9.7 Report on Standardization – Year 3

D9.8 Three short video films

D9.9 Presentation and reports at FoF-related events and Industrial organisations and user communities

Result items:

A 3D printed gearbox to take the space industry to the next level

A sparse-grid isogeometric solver

As-exact-as-possible repair of unprintable STL files

CAxMan: Design for Additive Manufacturing Made Easy and Cost-effective

CAxMan: un progetto per combinare fabbricazione additiva e sottrattiva

Cloud-based Infrastructure for Workflow and Service Engineering Using Semantic Web Technologies

Continuous Property Gradation for Multi-material 3D-Printed Objects

From 3D models to 3D prints: an overview of the processing pipeline

Implicit Mesh Generation using Volumetric Subdivision

Integrating interactive design and simulation for mass customized 3D-printed objects - a cup holder example

Optimal-order isogeometric collocation at Galerkin superconvergent points

Service and Workflow Engineering based on Semantic Web Technologies

Ternary Sparse Matrix Representation for Volumetric Mesh Subdivision and Processing on GPUs

Trivariate spline representations for computer aided design and additive manufacturing

Volumetric subdivision for consistent implicit mesh generation

Project type - instrument

Standards and standardisation

Comment: ISP 10303 STEP AP242 Edition 2 and ISO/ASTM52915 – 13

Manufacturing performance characteristics

Comment: Allow for more efficient design and process planning for additive manufacturing thus shortening the time to productions and facilitating distributed additive production.

Comment:

We will generate Objects closer to their nominal shape and thus less material will be removed by subtractive processes, and reduce energy consumption and indirectly CO2 emission

Comment:

We will generate Objects closer to their nominal shape and thus less material will be removed by subtractive processes.

CAxMan aim at using less material by offering new shape design methods for efficient design of voids and cavities. CAxMan also address the design of better and leaner support structures (use of less material) based analysis addressing thermal stresses and distortions during the additive process.

Comment: We will generate Objects closer to their nominal shape and thus less material will be removed by subtractive processes.

Comment: CAxMan aim at using less material by offering new shape design methods for efficient design of voids and cavities. CAxMan also address the design of better and leaner support structures (use of less material) based analysis addressing thermal stresses and distortions during the additive process.

Comment: CAxMan address workflows along the products-processes-production pipeline

Comment: We will be using less powder in AM reduce energy consumption for the laser-

Comment:
We will bring more skill of the additive manufacturing process into design and increase the skill of the designer.

Comment: We will bring more skill of the additive manufacturing process into design and increase the skill of the designer.

Comment: The new skills will make the users of the technology more competitive, and making work places safer.

Technologies and enablers

Comment: CAxMan combines metrology into the workflows

Comment: CAxMan combines Additive and Subtractive Processe

Comment: CAxMan addresses Computer Aided Technologies of Additive Manufacturing

Comment:

CAxMan addresses Computer Aided Technologies of Additive Manufacturing and Complete workflows, including Design and Simulation, providing models aimed at product life-cycle

Comment: Additive Manufacturing aims at moving Europe to the forefront with respect to design for Additive Manufacturing

Manufacturing future products

Comment: CAxMan has two use cases: A nutatig gearbox and cooling systems for injection moulds.

Comment: CAxMan addresses ICT support Additive Manufacturing and will include support for graded materials in the Product description.

Comment: CAxMan addressees simulation based design for additive manufacturing With Close integration with process planning for AM and subtractive manufacturing and quality Control.