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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
  • 14-24 physical processing cores, simultaneous multi-threading disabled
  • 128 GB RAM
  • 16 GB RAM sufficient for DED-only simulations

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

Product benchmarking

A selection of geometries that serve to showcase Netfabb Simulation's computational speed on industrial-sized components is available for download.

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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