Abstract
GibbsCAM, 3D Systems’ software product, is a full-featured CAM system that provides powerful CNC programming, capabilities, and solutions, delivering high quality parts without sacrificing ease of use. Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) collaborated with GibbsCAM to evaluate their toolpath generating software being developed for both blown powder and hybrid CNC/additive manufacturing machinery. The current approach in toolpath solutions for additive manufacturing is to utilize subtractive toolpaths created by existing CAM software and reversing it for additive manufacturing applications. GibbsCAM is working to develop a full solution to mitigate the challenges that arise with this approach and deploy a fully customized solution for producing quality, reliable components for a range of different DED systems. When successful, this will be an automated solution deployed through a future release of GibbsCAM software.
