The initial temperatures of the components in an additive manufacturing environment affect the heating and cooling cycles and processing speed for a part. For example, a warmer environment requires less heat input to fuse each new layer. A high temperature might also change the residual stress results or allow reduced annealing time after manufacturing. The starting temperature entries create initial temperatures for both the thermal and structural analysis cases. If part positioning data from a DELMIA manufacturing process is available, it is used to automatically apply the temperatures to the part and supports. You can edit the automatic selections or manually select components if part positioning data is not available. The temperature of the manufacturing chamber (also shared from the DELMIA machine setup when available) is applied to the part ands supports. It is also used as the default temperature for the build tray in the thermal case. You can specify a different temperature for the tray. For example, if your process uses a heated tray to increased processing speed. For use in the structural case, you specify a melting temperature for the additive material used to produce the part and the supports. The build tray temperature (chamber temperature or the temperature you specified) is reused from the thermal to the structural case. | ||||||