Automatic orientation for additive manufacturing

The Automatic Orientation tool creates an Automatic Orientation study. Use the study to generate a range of optimized orientations for additive parts on a build platform based on specified requirements. Optimized orientations can be used to minimize the amount of supports needed.

You can rank the importance of different criteria, including support volume and area, bounding box volume, part height, and center of gravity height to influence the orientation results.

Example of the initial position (left) and then an optimized orientation that minimizes support volume (right).