New collaboration introduces cutting-edge on-the-fly laser toolpath manipulation, support-less printing.
FRANKFURT, Germany (Formnext), November 18, 2024 – Dyndrite has announced a strategic partnership with Nikon SLM Solutions, a leader in selective laser melting (SLM) technology. This collaboration aims to deliver enhanced capabilities across Nikon SLM Solutions’ metal 3D printer portfolio, including the NXG series as well as the SLM 125, SLM 280, and SLM 500 models.
A New Era of Metal Additive Manufacturing
By integrating Dyndrite’s LPBF Pro software, Nikon SLM Solutions’ customers gain access to advanced toolpath strategies that maximize the capabilities of the open-architecture SLM platform. This partnership introduces next level capabilities, such as scalable slicing, low-angle support-free printing, optimized multi-laser coordination, and on-the-fly laser manipulation, enhancing productivity, and part quality for industrial-scale additive manufacturing.Moreover, manufacturers can develop their own intellectual property (IP), toolpath innovations, and optimized multi-optic laser allocations for their unique needs, making this the ultimate solution for pushing the boundaries of engineering in the aerospace, automotive, defense, energy, and medical industries.
Open Architecture as a Catalyst for Progress
The collaboration underscores the strategic importance of open architecture in advancing metal additive manufacturing. By providing users with unmatched flexibility and control, this partnership empowers manufacturers to push industry boundaries and achieve unprecedented levels of innovation. Open architecture fosters a collaborative ecosystem where hardware and software solutions evolve together, creating greater opportunities for advancements and breakthroughs.
“This partnership between Nikon SLM Solutions and Dyndrite represents a milestone for industries where metal additive manufacturing is essential to achieving high-performance, differentiated parts,” said Simone Castellani, chief technology officer, Nikon SLM Solutions. “Our combined commitment to open architecture provides customers with unparalleled access to capabilities that drive innovation, fast-track production, and maximize efficiency across the entire process. Ultimately, our customers benefit the most by reducing time-to-market and achieving lower end-part costs.”
“Our collaboration with Nikon SLM Solutions represents a game-changer for the metal additive manufacturing industry that has been years in the making,” said Harshil Goel, CEO of Dyndrite. “Nikon SLM Solutions’ open architecture combined with Dyndrite’s compute and software capabilities delivers an unmatched solution for users seeking to dramatically increase build speed, improve part quality, or print without supports. We look forward to the array of new parts and part economics that have been fundamentally enabled due to our combined solution. If you are seeking to print inconel 718 and/or Titanium parts without supports come find us!”
Driving Industry Progress
The connecting of Dyndrite’s scalable compute architecture, advanced toolpath control, and customizable automation elevates Nikon SLM Solutions’ open, multi-laser systems to new levels of productivity. Customers gain capabilities to consistently produce complex geometries, including low-angle support-free builds, intricate features, and optimize multi-laser coordination.Nikon SLM Solution users will be able to harness:
- Scalable Compute: Dyndrite’s scalable compute architecture efficiently handles the massive data required to power Nikon SLM Solutions’ NXG family of 3D printers with their large 600 x 600 x 600/1500 mm build volumes. By leveraging Nvidia GPU acceleration and multi-threaded CPU processing, Dyndrite enables rapid processing of complex geometries.
- Enhanced Toolpath Generation: Dyndrite LPBF Pro provides advanced toolpath capabilities that seamlessly integrate with Nikon SLM’s single and multi-optic laser systems, optimizing scan paths to accelerate build rates, print previously impossible parts such as intricate geometries, such as small features, thin walls, domes, and cantilevers, improve part quality and surface finish, and enable low-angle support-free builds.
- Advanced Multi-Laser Control: Through Nikon SLM’s open, multi-optic and focusing architecture, Dyndrite’s software is unmatched in ensuring optimal coordination between lasers, enabling the deployment of strategies that meet your production demands.
- Customization & Automation: Experience repeatable process automation through Dyndrite’s Python-based scripting language, allowing users to design critical manufacturing applications that automate complex workflows, shorten time for qualification, codifies knowledge and scales production.
Strategic Importance of Nikon SLM Solutions NXG and Dyndrite
By adding advanced support for Nikon SLM Solutions’ NXG in collaboration with Nikon SLM, Dyndrite continues to expand its footprint in the metal additive manufacturing space, further cementing its role as the go-to platform for forward-thinking manufacturers seeking advanced digital solutions.
The connection of Dyndrite’s software with Nikon SLM Solutions’ cutting-edge hardware highlights the companies’ shared mission to push industry limits while empowering customers to adopt best-in-class, adaptable solutions.
“Dyndrite shares our customer-centric vision,” said Dr. Simon Merkt-Schippers, EVP of product management at Nikon SLM Solutions. “Through open architecture and this partnership, we provide our customers access to the most powerful solutions available while supporting their specific needs, ultimately bringing low end-part costs and accelerated end-to-end production closer to reality.”
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