In recent decades Additive Manufacturing (AM) has matured to a new, but viable alternative to traditional construction methods in certain areas of the industry. To follow up these developments and satisfy the needs of the industry, significant effort was already made to provide design frameworks better suited for the peculiarities of the technology. Fabrication Information Modeling (FIM) represents such a framework, which provides tools to extend the classical Building Information Modeling (BIM) with manufacturing models for AM, including the generation of print paths for 3D printers. The work done in this thesis aims to enhance FIM by providing a way to generate volumetric models based on the print path and to conduct numerical simulations on them. Physical insight to the behaviour of the ”as-planned” geometry then could be used to improve the print path design. To facilitate the later automation of finding best designs, some overall physical performance measures were suggested and made available in a simple file format as simulation output.     «

In recent decades Additive Manufacturing (AM) has matured to a new, but viable alternative to traditional construction methods in certain areas of the industry. To follow up these developments and satisfy the needs of the industry, significant effort was already made to provide design frameworks better suited for the peculiarities of the technology. Fabrication Information Modeling (FIM) represents such a framework, which provides tools to extend the classical Building Information Modeling (BIM)...     »