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What Is Generative Design?

Generative design is a broad and holistic design methodology that includes all goal-driven and computational approaches to engineering where software is used to generate geometry based on a set of logical operations and user-defined rules.

In other words, generative design is a set of digital tools that augment your capabilities as an engineer and designer. These tools address the main engineering need to explore efficiently and effectively the entire available design space, enabling you to converge quickly to the best possible solution that meets all design requirements — both technical and non-technical.

Creo Generative Design: Ready for Prime Time

Dr. Andreas Vlahinos discusses the state of the art in generative design in general and of PTC Creo specifically.

Explore and validate design alternatives with Performance Driven Generative Design

Automatically generate optimized conceptual parts from a functional specification at the push of a button.

Carlin Uses PTC’s Creo for Design Efficiencies that Speed Lap Time

As the bar for design ingenuity keeps getting raised, the Carlin racing team needed to be intentional about choosing solutions that make most efficient use of design time.

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How to Win at Engineering with Generative Design

A generative design tool will utilize topology optimization in addition to other layers of optimization, resulting in an array of possible solutions.

Manufacturability meets generative design – flexible & reliable

Diabatix believes that generative design can always be manufacturable if executed properly. From the inception of our software ColdStream, it was clear that linking manufacturability to the very beginning of the design process is essential.

Accelerate product development of complex hood hinges with Generative Design

Automotive engineering: Enabling complex hinges for sports cars with integrated lightweight design.

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Generative Design Insights: Characteristics, Process and Sustainability

Generative Design is characterized by a high degree of automation, flexibility, and overall high speed. The considerably increased computing power, which is also available in a scalable and flexible manner employing cloud computing, even without extensive hardware of one’s own, is the cornerstone of this development and the driver of progress in the entire simulation field.

The Engineering Guide: Generative Design

What is generative design? How does work? What are the most common applications of generative design in engineering? Which generative design software should you choose?

Impact Footwear Brings to Market Customizable Flip Flops in Under 12 Months Using Design Automation & Architected Materials

Impact Footwear is a startup that developed the first customizable flip flop sandal with three different pressure zones that is manufactured-on-demand with SLS 3D printing.

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Paper: Optimised thermal management in semiconductor fabrication using AI-enabled generative design and Additive Manufacturing

This paper explores how generative thermal design and metal AM can be used in parallel to increase efficiency in semiconductor fabrication and boost the speed at which these vital components can be produced.

Paper: Breaking Grounds with Generative Design for Two-phase Cooling of Electronic Devices

This publication explores the combination of generative design and advanced two-phase cooling simulation techniques to efficiently create two-phase electronics cooling devices.

Engineering Team Passes Full-Flight Qualification for F-16 Aircraft AM Spare Part in Just 30 days

Engineers from nTopology, Origin, and Stress Engineering Services collaborated to redesign a family of F-16 aircraft hydraulic tube clamps for Additive Manufacturing. The final part was 2x stiffer than the legacy design, was easier to assemble, and was manufacturable on-demand.

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Making the Most of Generative Design

Generative design is not a magical solution to every design problem you will ever encounter. In its current, adolescent form, generative design is like every other design tool out there: to get the most out of it, you have to know the right way to use it.

A Beginner’s Guide to Generative Design

Generative design is promising to revolutionize products and the way they’re made. Drawing on cloud computing and artificial intelligence, the technology creates designs unlike anything engineers might come up with on their own. How exactly? This blog shares the basics.

Racing: Catch the Highest Performance with Lightweight Design

From load simulation via generative design to manufacturing and verification – optimization of a wheel carrier for FormulaStudent with MSC Software

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What is Generative Design?

At a high-level, Generative Design is relatively simple. It is a capability of CAD applications that autonomously generates a number of design alternatives given a set number of constraints.

Benefits of generative design

From reducing product weight to parts consolidation and reduced time to market, the benefits of generative design can be felt from the design iteration stage down to engineering for manufacturability.

Enabling Reliable Aircraft Structures with Generative Design

MSC Apex Generative Design Enables Design Project to Reduce
Two Parts Into One, and Cuts the Maximum Stress in Half

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Generative Design as a key enabler for efficiency and sustainability

Hexagon’s MSC Apex Generative Design solution provides the user with all the necessary tools within the software to import existing CAD data and manipulate it for model setup, or to create the model entirely within the software.

What is generative thermal design?

Diabatix Head of Operations, Roxane Van Mellaert, talks about the potent combination of artificial intelligence and generative design, resulting in the highly efficient and fast thermal design process that Diabatix employs.

Generative design is key to heat sink innovation

How does generative design of heat sink topology increase thermal performance? Imagine what it would be like to not be limited by your brain. We are all influenced by our education and life experiences, making our brain not only biased, but also limited. In heat sink design, this notion makes innovation harder than it needs to be.

Generative Design: A Faster Approach to Design

What are you doing to advance innovation? Here's an idea - bring artificial intelligence (AI) to bear on your product design process with Generative Design. Read this blog post to learn more.

SRAM Rethinks the Bicycle Crankarm with Generative Design

Bicycle component manufacturer, SRAM, used additive manufacturing and generative design in Autodesk Fusion 360 to create a new type of bicycle crankarm.

Generative Design: Shifting the paradigm in 3D metal printing

Generative Design employs computational algorithms along with artificial intelligence and machine learning to mimic nature’s evolutionary processes. It offers new high-performance design iterations that optimise a product’s mechanical performance. Engineers can also explore design possibilities according to part constraints and requirements to deliver a first-time-right additive manufacturing solution.

Generative Design: Making the Impossible a Reality

While engineers and designers can provide the best starting points, design exploration can quickly build on those parameters and generate the most effective and refined alternatives that we may never have thought possible. The engineering simulation community is now embracing this technology more than ever before.

Generative Engineering in the Early Concept Phase

Simcenter™ Studio software is a cloud-native application that allows engineers and data scientists to find the best designs for complex systems as quickly as possible. Using artificial intelligence and system simulation, the software delivers specific systems architectures to help you make the right engineering decisions!

Topology Optimization Additive Manufacturing Constraints in nTop Platform

In the recent nTop Platform 2.24 update, we introduced the topology optimization overhang constraint for Additive Manufacturing. In this blog post, we take a deeper look at the unique capabilities of this new feature and how it allows you to create optimization workflows that are different from every other solution currently in the market.

Generative Design Powered by Embedded Intelligence: The Next Design Frontier?

The more that systems thinking becomes an integral part of how design processes are performed, the more our engineers will examine critically the interaction of the various subsystems and components inherent to an overall system, rather than in an isolated manner. This webinar will look at how model-based design and model-based development can work alongside generative design, powered by pervasive simulation for the entire product team. Is this the next major step that is needed in our industry to design, validate and support our products with advanced integrated systems that have been increasing exponentially in complexity?

Generative Design: Making the Impossible a Reality

While engineers and designers can provide the best starting points, design exploration can quickly build on those parameters and generate the most effective and refined alternatives that we may never have thought possible. The engineering simulation community is now embracing this technology more than ever before.

Generative Engineering in the Early Concept Phase

Simcenter™ Studio software is a cloud-native application that allows engineers and data scientists to find the best designs for complex systems as quickly as possible. Using artificial intelligence and system simulation, the software delivers specific systems architectures to help you make the right engineering decisions!

Topology Optimization Additive Manufacturing Constraints in nTop Platform

In the recent nTop Platform 2.24 update, we introduced the topology optimization overhang constraint for Additive Manufacturing. In this blog post, we take a deeper look at the unique capabilities of this new feature and how it allows you to create optimization workflows that are different from every other solution currently in the market.

Generative Design Powered by Embedded Intelligence: The Next Design Frontier?

The more that systems thinking becomes an integral part of how design processes are performed, the more our engineers will examine critically the interaction of the various subsystems and components inherent to an overall system, rather than in an isolated manner. This webinar will look at how model-based design and model-based development can work alongside generative design, powered by pervasive simulation for the entire product team. Is this the next major step that is needed in our industry to design, validate and support our products with advanced integrated systems that have been increasing exponentially in complexity?

Generative Design Positioning Paper

The vision for Generative Design is that it could enable a significant paradigm shift in the design processes used today by enabling designs to be computer-generated based on a proper specification of rules, requirements, and constraints. This overturns the current practice of design, where designs must first be created so they can be evaluated against their performance requirements.

Initial Thoughts Regarding Topology Optimization in Support of Generative Design

Generative Design is the use of algorithmic methods to quickly and automatically, or iteratively, transform requirements, constraints, uncertainties, and design space to create/drive viable designs or outcomes. Requirements, constraints, and uncertainties may include factors from multiple areas including: design, performance, manufacturing, usability, aesthetics, ergonomics, and cost.

Generative Design Assessment Autodesk Fusion 360 Generative Design Workflow

This paper provides an assessment of the Generative Design workflow in Autodesk Fusion 360. This assessment is based on the capability assessment model related to the Key Capability Areas of Generative Design for General Applicability and their associated criteria outlined in the intrinSIM Market Report entitled “A Vision for Generative Design”.

A Vision for Generative Design

“A Vision for Generative Design” is a software independent intrinSIM market research paper that explores the potential paradigm shift enabled by Generative Design and what is required to enable that design paradigm shift. This market research paper looks at the key capability areas required to support a paradigm shift and proposes a capability assessment model with detailed assessment criteria for each of the key capability areas.

“Generative Design” – What’s That?

The term “generative design” has been used in architecture and civil engineering for more than a decade. It is now gaining currency in the mechanical design (MCAD) world.

Generative Design: Advice from Algorithms

CAD programs are ideal for design engineers who need to express their concepts, whether the shape of an automotive part or the housing of a smartphone, in detailed 3D geometry. Dassault Systèmes’ SolidWorks and CATIA, Autodesk Inventor, Siemens PLM Software’s Solid Edge and PTC’s Creo Parametric exemplify such programs.

White Paper: The Next Generation of Design

In today’s design environment, it’s increasingly necessary to combine multiple file types in a single project. If you need to work with parametric, direct and facet modeling within the same project, some CAD platforms require you to move design data across multiple pieces of software.

What Generative Design Is and Why It’s the Future of Manufacturing

Generative design replicates natural world's evolutionary approach with cloud computing to provide thousands of solutions to one engineering problem.

An Introduction to Generative Design

Generative design is opening new opportunities for solving design problems — and turning traditional workflows upside down, moving simulation ahead of model creation. Understanding the basics of the technology can help you decide if it’s time to share your AEC or MCAD workload with generative design tools.

Initial Thoughts regarding Topology Optimization in support of Generative Design

Topology Optimization that accounts for Additive Manufacturing constraints is a solid beginning for Generative Design. But Generative Design is more than this and may include multiple forms of Design Optimization.

Optimization: From Generative to Human-Assisted Design, and Machine Learning

A presentation by CIMdata's Dr. Keith Meintjes at the 2018 CAASE conference.

Generative Design: Your AI Partner in Product Development

A Digital Engineering Webcast from November, 2018.

Generative Design Use Case Requirements Assessment

This presentation illustrates the Generative Design requirements assessment using the ASSESS assessment model and intrinSIM quantification method.

Understanding a Generative Design Enabled Design Process Paradigm Shift

From CAASE 20: The vision for Generative Design is to enable a significant paradigm shift in the current design processes through the creation of algorithmically-generated designs by Design Engineers in the early concept design stage.

Whitepaper: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Generative Design

Generative Design is an innovation that significantly alters this way of thinking. It leverages topology optimization, artificial intelligence, and advanced simulation which automatically creates multiple viable design alternatives by specifying simple design criteria.

Generative Design with Complete Control

Generative Design is a holistic methodology that augments the capabilities of engineers with digital tools, enabling them to innovate faster. In this 20+ page guide, we explain how you can use nTop Platform as a powerful Generative Design toolbox that gives you complete control over every aspect of your design workflows.

Generative Design Tools That Put You In Control

Generative Design is getting a lot of attention — but what is it exactly? Here is why the current Generative Design concepts fall short and how nTop’s alternative approach enables you to unlock its full potential today.

Custom Generative Design Workflows using nTop Platform

In this webinar, Yamaichi Special Steel explains how they combined the advanced capabilities of nTop Platform with their own custom software (Cognitive Additive & OptiBot) to create a generative design workflow tailored to their needs.

How Generative Design Could Reshape the Future of Product Development

Smart algorithms won’t just lead to better products—they could redefine how product development is done.

What is Generative Design?

This article focuses on the application of Generative Design to mechanical engineering. Note that Generative Design also refers to the autonomous generation of electrical schematics based on diagrams, as well as placing components and routing traces through circuit boards that are based on diagrams.

Design for Additive Manufacturing (DfAM) for Metal Processes

In this speaker series, experts in the field of Design for Additive Manufacturing will discuss applications for metal 3D printing and the constant trade off between engineering requirements and design for the manufacturing process.

Generative Design

Ian Symington, NAFEMS Technical Officer, reached out to members of the NAFEMS Vendor Network nafe.ms/vendor to get their thoughts on Generative Design.

Unlocking Advanced Heat Exchanger Design and Simulation with nTop Platform and ANSYS CFX

This report will document the design process of a Fuel Cooled Oil Cooler (FCOC) from initial design in CAD, process steps in nTop Platform, and final Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) analysis steps in ANSYS CFX. This document should serve as a reference for nTopology users to perform similar simulations on their own designs.

How nTop Platform was used to design, analyze and print a fuel-cooled oil cooler

nTop engineers designed, analyzed and printed a fuel-cooled oil cooler using nTop Platform, ANSYS CFX and a new additive aluminum alloy developed by HRL Laboratories. This blog takes you from start to finish in the series that began in late 2019.

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