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DED Updates
Ansys Discovery
• Improved G-code reader: now can read multi-axis path
w/associated tool's orientation
New custom object
Tool visualization orientation
• Improved modeling: expanded support for customizable
beadcross-section shapes
Customized
Elliptical
Circular
Rectangular
Ansys Mechanical
• Streamlined workflow from Gcode to simulation
• Innovative approach for generating geometry model from G-
code directly
• Unique solution for implementing path-aware anisotropic
properties for composite & metal materials
Orientations mapping: orientation info from G-code can be directly mapped to each element after
mesh and enabling the definition of anisotropic material properties in Mechanical
Additive DED Thermal simulation
