Fronius optimizes 3D printing with curve support

Future welding Fronius optimizes 3D printing with characteristic curve support

2024-09-18 Source: Fronius | Translated by AI 2 min Reading Time

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With CMT Additive Pro, Fronius is now presenting a new, 3D-optimized welding process that scores points for its very uniform layer structure, high quality and stability.

Here, the CMT Additive Pro metal 3D printing process from Fronius is closely scrutinized. The additive manufacturing system from the Austrians works with a characteristic curve. Read here how it works and what advantages it has ...(Image: Fronius) — Here, the CMT Additive Pro metal 3D printing process from Fronius is closely scrutinized. The additive manufacturing system from the Austrians works with a characteristic curve. Read here how it works and what advantages it has ...
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It is well known that additive manufacturing can be used to produce components, spare parts and prototypes more flexibly, resource-efficiently and therefore more economically. The required components can be created virtually from "nothing", regardless of location. And with CMT Additive Pro, Fronius is now presenting an innovation that takes the whole thing to a new level, as they say. The Austrian innovation leader is also happy to provide support with its welding expertise on request. Because in its own prototyping center, layer by layer, component geometries that seemed impossible yesterday become reality.

Doing what seemed impossible yesterday ...

And additive manufacturing can fully exploit its advantages, especially where the degree of individualization is high. This is because it is also possible to print unique metal components with very complicated geometries that would be impossible to produce using conventional methods. One example of this is the acceleration of prototype construction (rapid prototyping), which enables manufacturers to quickly adapt and refine their product designs before moving on to mass production. However, Fronius emphasizes that topology optimizations that could not be produced using conventional methods are now also possible. Metal 3D printing also simplifies repair work and the on-demand printing of spare parts. It enables just-in-time component production, eliminating warehousing and storage costs. This makes companies more competitive and allows them to significantly shorten development cycles.

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The Fronius CMT Additive Pro system for the process-stable 3D printing of complex metal parts that would be difficult or impossible to produce using conventional methods.(Image: Fronius)

Component example of the possibilities offered by the CMT Additive Pro welding system from Fronius for the additive manufacturing of metal parts.(Image: Fronius)

Another application example of what can be built layer by layer with CMT Additive Pro from Fronius.(Image: Fronius)

That's what you need for good metal 3D printing:

However, the right welding path with the right welding parameters and processes is crucial for a good metal 3D printing result. The prerequisite for this is a high-performance welding system that can precisely ensure the path accuracy of the welding torch, as Fronius explains. This works with the new i-Wave Multiprocess Pro in combination with the Fronius CMT Additive Pro characteristic curve, which is optimally adapted to 3D metal printing. This Fronius innovation is available immediately. It is compatible with common robot systems for additive manufacturing and opens up a wide range of possibilities.

Predictable layer build-up due to stabilizer

With CMT (Cold Metal Transfer), Fronius has also had a particularly stable, easily controllable and comparatively cool welding process for decades. It is already the preferred process for 3D printing around the world. It is therefore only logical that the welding technology expert has now optimized CMT specifically for metal 3D printing and put the expertise it has gained into the development of Fronius CMT Additive Pro. The integrated deposition rate stabilizer ensures a constant wire feed, which leads to a uniform and predictable layer build-up. This makes the entire production process considerably more stable.

Errors in metal 3D printing are eliminated

The welding start within the build-up process is also an important criterion in metal 3D printing, as Fronius goes on to explain. Bonding errors or an excessive weld start area can impair the quality of the result. Fronius combats this risk with the Pulsed Hot Start function, which simultaneously achieves sufficient penetration and a constant layer height by starting the welding process in a pulsed arc. Everything is controlled automatically, so there is no need for manual settings.

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