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A Look Ahead piece in the September 2016 issue of Cutting Tool Engineering magazine looks at a topography-based, design-optimization tool kit aimed at simplifying design for manufacturing.
In the age of lightweighting and cost-cutting, components are regularly being designed and redesigned to give them optimal weight and strength in the fewest possible manufacturing steps. The 2016 version of solidThinking Inc.’s Inspire design-optimization software features a new PolyNURBS tool kit that allows part designers and engineers to create free-form solid geometry that is smooth and continuous by wrapping topology results with NURBS geometry. Users can then flow optimized designs into products that can be 3D-printed.
Models in Inspire 2016 show a component designed for strength (left), with optimized geometry (middle) and the final design model (right). Image courtesy solidThinking.
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