Can you add or modify LPBF scanning paths in Mechanical?

- February 12, 2023 at 7:57 pm
  
  deld
  Subscriber
  
  Is there a way to add scanning paths to the LPBF additive manufacturing module/object settings?
  If not, has anyone found any other methods for effectively modelling the LPBF process in Ansys Mechanical?
  Note: Currently running 21R2.
- February 14, 2023 at 1:46 pm
  
  Ashish Khemka
  Ansys Employee
  
  Hi,
  
  Please see if the following link is of help to you: combination-of-modeling-and-thermal-sensing-to-understand-additive-manufacturing-processes.pdf (ansys.com)
  
  Regards,
  Ashish Khemka
  - February 16, 2023 at 10:58 am
    
    deld
    Subscriber
    
    I’ve checked out the article and ran the Additive Science Thermal History simulation. The generated vtk files could be loaded in ParaView and that allowed me to view the scanning pattern, at least. It was using some generic scanning path but I’ll have to look further into whether I can programme a custom scanning path for it (just not sure where to start with that).

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