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About Simulation Utility and Local Simulation

Simulation Utility and Local Simulation refer to two variants of the same software for thermo-mechanical simulation of powderbed and moving-source additive processes:

Simulation Utility as part of Netfabb Ultimate Local Simulation
Simulation capabilities
  • Part-level simulations with limited model complexity and size
    • Meshes of up to 5 million nodes and 200 million layer-nodes (grouped layers × number of nodes)
    • Mesh controls limited to a maximum of 20 layers grouped and a maximum of 2 mesh coarsening generations
  • Generic process parameters ("PRM") only, as included with the installation
  • Powderbed fusion only
  • Part-level simulations with unlimited model complexity
  • PRM file generation
  • Powderbed fusion and directed-energy/moving-source deposition
  • Local simulation on Linux OS or Windows (command-line solver runs on both platforms, GUI is Windows-only)
Recommended minimum hardware
  • 8 processing cores
  • 64 GB RAM
  • 14 physical processing cores
  • 128 GB RAM

For an additional overview of features visit the Netfabb product page.

Product benchmarking

Benchmark models are available. These models serve as geometries to showcase Netfabb Simulation's computational speed on industrial-sized components.

The solver

The actual computation behind Simulation Utility and Local Simulation is performed by the command-line program pan.exe. It has its dedicated section in the online help.

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