Porosity analysis

This example shows how to use PyAdditive to determine porosity for a given material and machine parameter combinations.

Units are SI (m, kg, s, K) unless otherwise noted.

Perform required import and connect

Perform the required import and connect to the Additive service.

from ansys.additive.core import Additive, AdditiveMachine, PorosityInput, SimulationError

additive = Additive()

Select material

Select a material. You can use the materials_list() method to obtain a list of available materials.

print("Available material names: {}".format(additive.materials_list()))

Available material names: ['316L', 'AlSi10Mg', 'IN625', '17-4PH', 'Al357', 'Ti64', 'CoCr', 'IN718']

You can obtain the parameters for a single material by passing a name from the materials list to the material() method.

material = additive.material("316L")

Specify machine parameters

Specify machine parameters by first creating an AdditiveMachine object and then assigning the desired values. All values are in SI units (m, kg, s, K) unless otherwise noted.

machine = AdditiveMachine()

# Show available parameters
print(machine)

AdditiveMachine
laser_power: 195 W
scan_speed: 1.0 m/s
heater_temperature: 80 °C
layer_thickness: 5e-05 m
beam_diameter: 0.0001 m
starting_layer_angle: 57 °
layer_rotation_angle: 67 °
hatch_spacing: 0.0001 m
slicing_stripe_width: 0.01 m

Set laser power and scan speed

Set the laser power and scan speed.

machine.scan_speed = 1.2  # m/s
machine.laser_power = 250  # W

Specify inputs for porosity simulation

Create a PorosityInput object containing the desired simulation parameters.

input = PorosityInput(
    machine=machine,
    material=material,
    id="porosity-example",
    size_x=0.001,  # meters
    size_y=0.001,
    size_z=0.001,
)

Run simulation

Use the simulate() method of the additive object to run the simulation. The returned object is either a PorositySummary object containing the input and the relative density of the simulated sample or a SimulationError object.

summary = additive.simulate(input)
if isinstance(summary, SimulationError):
    raise Exception(summary.message)

Print relative density

print(f"For {summary.input.material.name} with \n", summary.input.machine)
print(f"\n    relative density = {round(summary.relative_density, 5)}")

For 316L with
 AdditiveMachine
laser_power: 250 W
scan_speed: 1.2 m/s
heater_temperature: 80 °C
layer_thickness: 5e-05 m
beam_diameter: 0.0001 m
starting_layer_angle: 57 °
layer_rotation_angle: 67 °
hatch_spacing: 0.0001 m
slicing_stripe_width: 0.01 m


    relative density = 0.99999