Predict FDM Part Performance Before You Print with NoviPath

Every engineer who prints a load-bearing bracket, fixture or production aid asks the same question: will it hold? Today the answer is to add material and hope, or to print it, build a rig and break it.

General-purpose FEA does not answer it, because it treats a printed part as a solid block. An FDM part is built filament by filament, and its strength depends on orientation, raster angle, contours and layer direction. Two beams with the same geometry, material and printer, differing only in toolpath, can deflect six times differently under the same load.

NoviPath by Novineer, integrated with GrabCAD Print, reads the actual toolpath and simulates the part as it will be printed. Add loads and restraints, and in minutes you get deformation, stress, failure load and location, and safety factor. Behind it: more than 1,500 physical tests on Nylon 12CF, Antero 800NA and ULTEM 9085 across the F900, Fortus 450mc and F3300.

In 45 minutes you will see:

•  How Stratasys customers qualify load-bearing FDM parts today, and what it costs them
•  Why generic FEA misses for FDM, and the material testing behind toolpath-aware prediction
•  A live run in GrabCAD Print: apply loads, read results, change orientation or toolpath, rerun
•  NoviPath predictions against destructive tests, including a part that shed up to 35% of its weight with safety factors intact

So join Stratasys and Novineer on Thursday, 12 November 2026,  7:00 PT / 9:00 CT / 10:00 ET / 15:00 GMT / 16:00 CET.