MACHINE SIMULATION OF ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING TOOL PATH.

Additive technology (AT) has emerged as a key enabling technology, with its ability to shorten product design and development time. The paper presents the programming and program verification using machine simulation of additive manufacturing tool path in CAD/CAM and Vericut environment. A procedure for configuring and preparing of a virtual machine for several additive process simulations has been proposed. The paper analyses the available programming software for generating G code from the STL file as well as the possibility of simulating the virtual machine when working according to the generated program. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]