Fibrify® Software allows you to execute the entire additive manufacturing process, from optimal parts design to high-volume production.
Fibrify® seamlessly integrates CAD import, fiber layup creation, FEA material orientation pre-processing, and production system control for efficient manufacturing execution.
Use your geometries and sketches for versatile fiber designs, reinforcing your most complex features. Combine 2D plies into 3D composite parts for optimal designs, employing parametrized layer distribution through thickness.
Pre-process your geometry and part orientation and integrate them with your FEA/FEM simulation tool. Automate part design optimization through FEM validation, speeding up development and increasing design confidence.
Once you have achieved the optimal design you can manage your parts prototyping and full scale manufacturing. Fibrify® Production integrated cloud software acts as your manufacturing execution system.
Experience the freedom to place fibers as needed. Fibrify® Design Suite facilitates creating parts using continuous fibers and thermoplastic materials.
Optimize and validate through FEA/FEM simulations the optimal part design and greatly speed up your product development time.
You can start with prototypes and move on to manage full-scale production using fibrify® Production. At the comfort of your desk you can monitor and oversee production until completion.
Fibrify® Design Suite is an in-house developed software solution providing advanced fiber design, fully leveraging the performance of the continuous fibers, resulting in ultra-lightweight parts. The design software prepares your complex composite part for FEA validation to aid in optimizing and validating the design.
Import a CAD file
Create the printed solid
Create the fiber layup
Validate with FEA
Adapt design if needed
Generate machine execution code
• Standard CAD tools
For part modeling, leverage built in CAD tools to achieve the final geometry for your composite part.
• Tailored Reinforcements
For your part reinforcements use individual tape paths along geometrical features. Tailor the paths using custom sketches, part faces, and solids.
• From Path to Ply
Automatically bundle the individual reinforcements created for each section of your part.
• From Ply to Vertical Distribution
With the plies now generated you're ready now to distribute them along your part to finally start assessing the part performance.
• Design iterations
Once you've assessed the part performance, seamlessly reiterate on your part design and reinforcements to achieve your desired requirements.
• Unlock complex geometries
For complex out-of-plane parts reshape your vertical distribution into the volume to achieve 3D reinforcements.
Fibrify® Production is a cloud-based manufacturing solution developed by 9T Labs. Fibrify® production lets you remotely manage and monitor your composite production, no matter where you are. It guarantees a seamless workflow, complete traceability, and thorough data collection for your processes.
Send build plan from fibrify® Design Suite to Build Modules
Execute prototyping batch
Gather data to optimize for series production ramp-up
Ramp up production
Optimize product lifecycle
• Fibrify® Design Suite Integration
Seamlessly integrate with fibrify® Design Suite, allowing you to send design files directly to your machines through cloud storage or over a local network, streamlining the transition from design to production.
• Composite Production Integration
Fibrify® Production isn't limited to a single machine. Connect multiple Build and Fusion modules to distribute tasks and manage workflows efficiently.
• Control the Production Process
Monitor your composite manufacturing processes from anywhere with fibrify® Production. Use any compatible device as a monitoring tool.
• Production Queue & History
Each machine connected to fibrify® Production has its unique production queue and history. Easily track past projects and queue new ones, letting fibrify® Production streamline your operations.
• Statistics & Diagnostics
Track the efficiency and material usage of your machines. Fibrify® Production provides real-time data and comprehensive logs for each production job, helping you optimize your processes.
• Secure and Private
9T Labs prioritizes your data security. All file transfers and communications within fibrify® Production are encrypted (SSL) and authenticated to protect your proprietary designs and information.
At 9T Labs, we do not develop and offer an FEA software. We offer our fibrify® Design Suite (fibrify DS) software for fiber placement. fibrify® includes a direct integration with the most common commercial FEA tools like ANSYS ACP, an FEA preprocessor for composites simulation, or Abaqus. At the moment, fibrify® DS guarantees full integration with ANSYS FEA software, interfaces for more commercially available FEA tools like Nastran could be developed, but are not yet available.
Fibrify® Design Suite (fibrify DS) is compatible with parametric file formats like STEP and IGES. It also works with CATIA V4/V5, CREO, Parasolid, and SolidWorks. When modeling, fibrify® DS saves files as SpaceClaim scdoc files.
For FEA simulation tools, fibrify® uses HDF5cc as a native simulation interface. Ansys Mechanical and ACP are utilized for anisotropic structural simulation.
Fibrify® Design Suite supports the creation of oriented fibers using various tools. These tools generate fibers from model contours and infills, offer dedicated support for hole fibers, and allow grouping fibers into plies applicable to model layers. There are additional features for fine-tuning fiber deposition.
To generate toolpaths for the Build Module, fibrify® Design Suite enables exporting toolpaths as GCode containing polymer and fiber deposition paths. Additionally, it seamlessly interfaces with fibrify® Production, allowing for uploading build jobs directly to a target machine or specific projects.
