# Additive Manufacturing Modeling

**URL:** <https://community.freefem.org/t/additive-manufacturing-modeling/609>\
**Category:** General Discussion\
**Created:** [October 9, 2020, 2:43pm UTC](https://community.freefem.org/t/additive-manufacturing-modeling/609 "2020-10-09T14:43:11Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Stephan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8baadc/32.png) [@Stephan](https://community.freefem.org/u/Stephan)\
**Post date:** [October 9, 2020, 2:43pm UTC](https://community.freefem.org/t/additive-manufacturing-modeling/609/1 "2020-10-09T14:43:11Z")

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Hello everyone,  
I am very new to FEM programs and am currently trying to study the process of additive manufacturing of metals. Ultimately, I am trying to have a multi physics solver that is able to model the thermal properties, as well as the mechanical properties of the additive manufacturing process of powder bed fusion. However, as mentioned before I am new to all of this and only have limited experience with C++. Any kind of help in terms of where to start or which functions of the software to use would be appreciated and helpful. I am a little overwhelmed with the complexity of the issue.  
Thank you for your time.

Stephan

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**Author:** ![Jonas\_Zille](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/53a042/32.png) [@Jonas\_Zille](https://community.freefem.org/u/Jonas_Zille)\
**Post date:** [July 11, 2021, 4:40pm UTC](https://community.freefem.org/t/additive-manufacturing-modeling/609/2 "2021-07-11T16:40:37Z")

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Hi Stephan,  
I am working on different additive manufacturing models. In FreeFEM I have some modified inherent strain models for the layerwise build-up and i am working on some other fluid models of the meltpool. If you are still interested in this topic you can contact me.

Jonas