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Due to the separation of part design and pre-processing in the industrial context of additive manufacturing, design changes caused by part orientation determination lead to time-consuming iterations. This work provides an approach to determine the optimal part orientation and post-processing surfaces in CAD-Systems, based on native 3D CAD data, to overcome these shortcomings. The authors identified relevant parameters being influenced by part orientation and propose a method to solve the multi-criteria optimization problem of the part orientation. An application example is implemented using the programming language C# and the NX Open API of the CAD-system Siemens NX 12 by vendor Siemens PLM Software is used for validation purposes.
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Krückemeier, S., Staudter, G., Anderl, R. (2021). Determining the Optimal Orientation of AM-Parts Based on Native 3D CAD Data. In: Trzcielinski, S., Mrugalska, B., Karwowski, W., Rossi, E., Di Nicolantonio, M. (eds) Advances in Manufacturing, Production Management and Process Control. AHFE 2021. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 274. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-80462-6_1
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