Specify the Material Deposition

Define how the material is deposited to create new layers.

Material deposition enables you to describe the depositing of material over time, either from external sources or from existing slicing data.

  1. From the Material Deposition section of the Assistant, click Material Input .
  2. Select Follow deformation to have inactive elements (elements within the mesh of the part volume that do not yet contain enough material to be activated) follow the model deformation.

    If there is significant model deformation and inactive elements do not follow the deformation, they can distort due to their connection to the motion of the active elements. When the inactive elements are activated, the distortion can cause problems with the simulation.

  3. Select Roller as the Deposition Process.
  4. Select Full as the Activation Type.

    Full activation activates an entire mesh element when the filled volume fraction reaches the Max volume fraction. Partial activation partially activates elements when they are filled to the Activation threshold.

    For example, an element that is 80% filled is considered completely filled if you set the Max volume fraction less than or equal to 0.80. This is true regardless of the activation type. However, if you chose Partial activation with a threshold of 0.05, element activation would begin at 5% fill.

  5. Click OK.

    A glyph showing the roller with the deposition process appears.



    The material deposition appears in the Scenario > Simulation Resource Set.1 > Process category of the tree.