- Powerful multi-physics sintering simulation software is now
trusted by users at more than a hundred Desktop Metal binder jet 3D
printer companies globally
- Simulation software predicts and corrects for shrinkage and
distortion in part designs in as little as 20 minutes, delivering
sinter-ready, printable geometries
- Now with scan-based adjustments, Live Sinter allows users to
fine tune their simulation results based on one or multiple scans
to further dial in part accuracies
- Live Sinter also automates the generation of live, metal
sintering supports or ceramic sintering setters, including floating
setter inserts
- By combining sintering simulation with scan-based adjustments
and easy-to-use automated corrective tools, Live Sinter remains a
unique tool for optimizing metal binder jetting parts
production
Desktop Metal, Inc. (NYSE: DM), a global leader in additive
manufacturing technologies for mass production, today announced
significant updates to Live Sinter — a powerful multi-physics
sinter simulation software application that automates the
generation of sinter-ready, printable geometries, as well as
supports, setters, and inserts, to make repeatable, volume
production of high-precision end-use metal parts through binder
jetting more accessible.
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Live Sinter simulation software predicts
and corrects for shrinkage and distortion in metal parts 3D printed
with binder jetting technology. Sinter-ready, printable geometries
are provided in as little as 20 minutes and deliver highly accurate
final part results. (Graphic: Business Wire)
Launched in the fall of 2020, Live Sinter is now trusted by
users at more than a hundred companies globally, and the software
is a key enabler of Desktop Metal’s AM 2.0 binder jetting
solutions, making them easier to adopt and ramp to production for
customers without any prior powder metallurgy or sintering
expertise.
Live Sinter’s powerful multi-physics simulation and compensation
software delivers sinter-ready, printable geometries that maintain
tight shape and dimensional tolerances. After scan-based
adjustments, Live Sinter enables correcting for complex distortion
effects, yielding parts that consistently fall well within 1% of
target dimension with as low as +/- 0.3% deviation, avoiding
distortion, warping, and other common sintering challenges, as well
as the cost and time associated with supports or setters.
“Within the field of sinter-based additive manufacturing, Live
Sinter stands alone for its ease of use and functionality,” said
Ric Fulop, Founder and CEO of Desktop Metal. “No other solution
offered today combines our powerful, rapid multi-physics simulation
with scan-based adjustments and automated support and setter
generation. Customers continue to report their absolute delight
with this tool to us, and we look forward to continuing to invest
in advancing Live Sinter to make sinter-based manufacturing
accessible to an ever wider audience, including metal injection
molding customers.”
A Key to Metal Printing Success
Live Sinter is a critical companion to Desktop Metal’s portfolio
of metal binder jetting systems, which produce parts that must be
sintered in a furnace to fuse the particles into a high-density
material.
Desktop Metal offers the broadest portfolio of metal binder
jetting systems, including the Shop System, X-Series and Production
System P-1 and P-50. Several of these systems include Desktop
Metal’s furnace, which simplifies and reduces costs associated with
the sintering process across a range of geometries and materials
for businesses new to binder jetting. The Company’s printers
support processing 30 metals across volume production, specific
customer applications, or research and development. Learn more at
https://www.desktopmetal.com/materials.
The Shop System is now the world’s best-selling metal binder jet
printer, and Live Sinter has been a critical component of that
turnkey printer’s ease of use and success.
“One of my biggest worries investing in this technology was the
furnace and the frustration of failing that far into the process
during sintering. Using Live Sinter, I’m blown away at our success
with the sintering furnace,” said Neil Glazebrook, Vice President
of 3D Solutions at ABCorp in Boston. His company invested in a Shop
System and Desktop Metal Furnace in 2021 for the production of
17-4PH stainless steel parts. The company had no prior sintering
experience. “I don’t have to use sintering supports anymore, so I
don’t have to charge for supports. I use Live Sinter for
everything, and it makes it more competitive.”
“We’ve found Live Sinter to be an extremely valuable tool for
FreeFORM. The ability to print, scan, adjust, reprint, etcetera,
has reduced our lead time by helping us yield product in spec
faster than a traditional trial and error loop. The ability of the
software to predictively deform products prior to first
manufacturing or to take first-off parts and make adjustments have
resulted in our customers getting to market faster with product so
they can move on to their next development,” said Chris Aiello,
Co-Founder, FreeFORM Technologies of St. Marys, Pennsylvania.
FreeFORM owns three Shop System printers, as well as a Production
System P-1 and an InnoventX.
Sean Harkins, President, AmPd Labs, in Houston, Texas, owns a
Shop System and says Live Sinter is an essential part of his
company’s success with it. “We use it all the time now, and it’s a
dramatic change. We simulate, print, scan and reprint and it comes
out perfect,” he said.
To learn more about Live Sinter, visit
https://www.desktopmetal.com/products/livesinter
About Desktop Metal
Desktop Metal, Inc., based in Burlington, Massachusetts, is
accelerating the transformation of manufacturing with an expansive
portfolio of 3D printing solutions, from rapid prototyping to mass
production. Founded in 2015 by leaders in advanced manufacturing,
metallurgy, and robotics, the company is addressing the unmet
challenges of speed, cost, and quality to make additive
manufacturing an essential tool for engineers and manufacturers
around the world. Desktop Metal was selected as one of the world’s
30 most promising Technology Pioneers by the World Economic Forum
and named to MIT Technology Review’s list of 50 Smartest Companies.
For more information, visit www.desktopmetal.com.
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