Design Guidelines for a Software-Supported Adaptation of Additively Manufactured Components with Regard to a Robust Production

The design of additively manufactured components requires a rethinking in the design process. This is inhibited by a lack of knowledge about additive manufacturing technologies. For this reason, a large number of design guidelines have been developed in recent years. In their present form the design guidelines are not suitable for processing in a software algorithm, since the guidelines have a certain redundancy and partly influence each other. This paper describes several steps to consolidate the existing guidelines and to prepare them in a way that they can be used in a software algorithm for a design check. Therefore, existing guidelines are collected, prioritized and quantified with regard to their relevance for a robust production. To quantify the guidelines, test specimens are developed, produced and evaluated in order to obtain a limit value for the geometric properties. With these limit values, quantifiable design guidelines can be applied to designers and software tools.