Dyndrite, SLM Solutions Cooperate to Maximize Digital Manufacturing Software Tools

Dyndrite is collaborating with SLM Solutions for support of the SLM file format within its Application Development Kit (ADK). Dyndrite is a provider of a GPU-accelerated computation engine used to create next-generation digital manufacturing hardware and software.

The relationship builds on SLM Solutions’ Open Architecture Initiative, enabling Dyndrite software to directly write laser toolpath and parameters to control either single or multi-optic systems. It also enables SLM customers to design advanced materials, carry out process development and build strategies that fit their unique needs.

Dyndrite delivers an ADK which provides GPU-powered 3D CAD-to-print software development. It also provides the software power for generating toolpaths and rasterizing 3D data for additive manufacturing (AM) processes, including binder jetting, photopolymers and laser powder bed fusion (LPBF). Additionally, through an integrated Python API, Dyndrite brings full automation of CAD-to-print data workflows at a speed that is said to fulfill even the most challenging production workflows or data requirements. 

It is said the Dyndrite software enables the development of additive CAM, materials and process development, process qualification and calibration, and automated production lines.

“The future of additive manufacturing is open,” says Harshil Goel, Dyndrite CEO. “Only through democratization will the industrialization of additive manufacturing advance at a faster pace. Innovators need to rapidly experiment, protect their IP and be able to bring new solutions to market.”

SLM says it enables and promotes end-to-end AM solutions. “It’s crucial to the success of our customers that this also entails materials and process parameters as essential ingredients outside the machine itself,” says Garett Purdon, SLM Solutions vice president of North America sales. “SLM Solutions’ Open Architecture initiative enables Dyndrite and others to manipulate and make adjustments in order to provide our install base a competitive edge in their segment — adding software as a weapon in their arsenal.”

Dyndrite is incorporating SLM single and multi-optic support directly within its ADK. The companies will work together to ensure that users can fully create SLM parameters and tool paths to fit their individual needs, maximizing materials development and application or part-specific build rate strategies.