AddUp, Dassault Systèmes Collaborate on Aerospace Digital Continuity Project

AddUp has joined the Dassault Systèmes’ 3DExperience platform ecosystem as part of the Aeroprint project, which aims to establish a certified additive manufacturing (AM) pilot line for aeronautics. AddUp is a global metal AM OEM offering a series of industrial 3D metal printers utilizing both laser powder bed fusion (LPBF) and directed energy deposition (DED) technologies.

With the 3DExperience platform, Dassault Systèmes offers a dedicated set of applications for AM — from new material characterization, adapted design, build job preparation and simulation to shopfloor scheduling and execution monitoring. By working on a single platform, users can ensure digital continuity across the entire life cycle of parts production.

At the heart of this collaboration is Aeroprint, an R&D project driven by Dassault Aviation which is located in the French region of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. One of the expected deliverables is the establishment of a certified AM pilot line for aeronautics, an industry particularly sensitive to the benefits of this technology. Dedicated to accelerating the adoption of AM by the aeronautics industry, an industrial platform at the Argonay site is being set up. With such ambitions, the company says only perfectly integrated digital solutions can be considered. This is where AddUp and Dassault Systèmes’ work takes on its full meaning.

AddUp created a virtual twin of its FormUp 350 by using AddUp NTwin, a solution dedicated to FormUp interoperability, that enables 3DExperience platform users to seamlessly produce a job file, retrieve additional build information and run simulations. This Virtual Twin is available to 3DExperience platform users in the AddUp community hosted by Dassault Systèmes.

The company says interoperability is a strong expectation for industrial manufacturers that plan on taking AM to a daily large-scale level. It connects not only a single machine to a global industrial environment but also offers digital continuity and simplification for upstream production processes. In other words, it’s a key to efficiency, of which the Aeroprint project will be the first beneficiary.

The virtual twin of the FormUp 350 machine in the 3DExperience platform enables the production file to be created interactively. Thanks to this virtual twin, Dassault Aviation is able to ensure digital continuity from design to the manufacturing of the part in the 3DExperience platform.

Leaving the standard asynchronous workflow and its CAD-to-STL conversion, this synergy provides better traceability and flexibility over time. Users can access powerful 3DExperience platform features and applications, while creating strategies and generating trajectories within seconds using the AddUp Trajectory Generator. For perfect process mastery, trajectories are displayed directly in the Delmia application, before being sent to Simulia applications for process simulation.

The solution is available from the AddUp community, where they can also find information and use cases as well as ask AddUp and Dassault Systèmes members questions.

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