Renishaw, Simufact collaborate to boost laser powder bed fusion success

The Renishaw-Simufact team was formed to enhance LPBF technology.

Global engineering company Renishaw has announced its collaboration with Simufact to enhance the success of laser powder bed fusion (LPBF) builds through accurate simulation and streamlined additive manufacturing build preparation. The collaboration includes the integration of Renishaw's QuantAM build preparation software into Simufact Additive 2020. The two companies also are working together on improved simulation of the complex metallurgy of commonly used materials to enable successful prediction and compensation of stress and distortion during the printing process.

Simufact Additive 2020 includes an integrated Renishaw QuantAM API for build job preparation and export, which provides the user an error-free data transmission from Simufact Additive directly to Renishaw systems. This functionality also helps improve productivity because the entire work process from design to printed part is possible within the software, says the company. The QuantAM API now enables multilaser build file preparation for Renishaw's RenAM 500Q quad-laser machine.