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Full-physics process simulation · Polymer 3D printing

Print it right the first time.

Material-Sim simulates the full physics of your print — heat flow, crystallinity and distortion — then compensates the part so it comes off the plate in tolerance. All in your browser.

Polymer-first Full-physics solve In your browser
results · wall_100mm_abs.simres printing
Pass 1 · printing the wall as designed — colours show temperature
nominal (as drawn)colour = temperature (°C)
What it predicts

See the part before it exists — then answer the three questions that decide the job

One full-physics solve tracks the heat through every layer as it is laid and cooled, and with it the three things that make a print succeed or scrap.

Distortion

Will it warp?

As each layer cools through solidification and the glass transition, stiffness climbs and thermal strain locks in. Material-Sim predicts the printed shape against nominal — and pre-distorts the geometry so the part prints onto drawing. Both passes play in the viewer above.

demo wall: worst deviation 0.52 mm → 0.0002 mm in 3 solves

Material state

Will it perform?

For semi-crystalline polymers, cooling rate sets crystallinity, and crystallinity sets shrinkage and stiffness. The solve tracks the material the printer actually made — not the one on the datasheet — including what bed, chamber and annealing temperatures do to it.

Print quality

Will it fail?

Unsupported overhangs, layers that never cool before the next arrives, regions that stay soft too long. The thermal history flags the quality issues you would otherwise find on the plate — while they still cost nothing.

Why Material-Sim

Built for the job, not adapted to it

Process simulation the polymer world has been missing — and the parts of it that make it usable day to day.

Polymer-first

Built for polymers, not metal

The established process-simulation tools were built for metal AM. They don't model crystallinity, glass transition, or the way your materials actually move as they cool.

Full physics

Heat, crystallinity, distortion

A properly coupled thermo-mechanical solve — the class of model aerospace trusts on composites, pointed at your printer instead of an autoclave.

First time right

It compensates, not just predicts

Most tools stop at "your part will warp." Material-Sim pre-distorts the geometry and re-solves until the print lands in tolerance — a corrected file, not just a warning.

Cloud native

Everything in the browser

No desktop install, no license server. Compute and storage run on secure cloud infrastructure, and every result is a link you can hand to a colleague.

No mesh wrangling

Automatic 3D meshing

Import a STEP file and go. No node placement, no element quality to babysit — the mesh is built for you from the geometry.

Material library

Characterised, and honest about it

Polymers from PLA to PEEK, each with a full temperature-dependent model — and every value labelled measured, literature or assumed, with its source.

How it works

CAD in, corrected part out — nothing to install

Import a STEP or STL part, choose a material and a process cycle — print, cool, release, anneal — and solve. The mesh is automatic, the solve runs in the cloud, and results open in the browser as a link you can share.

geometry → material → process → solve → compensate → results

Early access

We're onboarding early teams

Run a part through it. If the prediction is useful, we'll set your team up with projects, cloud solves and shareable results. Ask us about pricing — it scales with what you run.

Simulation
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Material Library
grades · provenance
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