CAxMan

For society, Additive Manufacturing (AM) has many advantages, external and internal shapes and structures that are hard or impossible to produce with traditional methods become feasible. This not only affects the costs of material used and energy spent.
The objectives of CAxMan were to establish cloud-based toolboxes, workflows and a one stop-shop for interoperable CAx-technologies supporting AM with respect to design, simulation, process planning and quality control. More specifically, to establish analysis-based design approaches that reduce material usage, increase weight savings through internal cavities and voids, and enhance process planning by exploiting thermal and stress analyses. All objectives were achieved expect for the one-stop-shop, where the efforts on the legal framework are continued in H2020 project CloudiFacturing.