Additive technologies and application of the STEP-NC protocol

Abstract

The paper presents an approach for applying the STEP-NC protocol in additive manufacturing. The ISO 10303 AP238 standard is used, which enables the implementation of geometrical information about material addition layers as input data for the generation of STEP-NC programs. The methodology for applying the STEP-NC protocol in additive manufacturing is also given. For verification and simulation of the generated programs for additive manufacturing, the STEP-NC Machine environment and us own configured machines for additive manufacturing within this software are used.

Keywords

• additive manufacturing
• programming
• cad/cam
• step-nc
• verification
• virtual machine
• simulation