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.
Coldstream reduces design cycle time, enabling rapid iterations and optimizations that are crucial in the fast-paced EV market.
The thermal resistance improvement of 55% in the generative design CPU cooler is proof of the game-changing potential of the technologies presented in this blog.
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.
The application of generative design is fundamentally transforming how cooling components are designed and produced.
A 55% lower thermal resistance compared to the conventional design showing a potential to improve CPU performance and safety.
Automotive engineering: Enabling complex hinges for sports cars with integrated lightweight design.
This blog highlights why Diabatix is passionate about generative design and why they believe it is a game-changer in dealing with the design of cooling components.
Generative Design starts with counterintuitive design alternatives. It leads to state-of-the-art products that defy conventional design and manufacturing methods.
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.
ColdStream software integrates generative design to push the boundaries in the creation of cooling components.
Automatically generate optimized conceptual parts from a functional specification at the push of a button.
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.
This webinar explores the capabilities of Generative Design to take advantage of the cloud and introducing Creo Ansys Simulation; the 2nd product created as a result of the Creo-Ansys partnership.
MSC Apex Generative Design is a highly automated optimization tool for generating fast and easy lightweight, optimal designs.
From load simulation via generative design to manufacturing and verification – optimization of a wheel carrier for FormulaStudent with MSC Software
Read this conversation between Engineering.com's Roopinder Tara and Andreas Vlahinos regarding the state of the art in generative design in general and PTC Creo specifically.
Learn how generative design can be used to optimize the performance and functionality of roll-bonded cold plates.
MSC Apex Generative Design Enables Design Project to Reduce
Two Parts Into One, and Cuts the Maximum Stress in Half
Topology optimization software frees the engineer from having to guess the overall shape or form of the part. A poor guess can lead to a dead end. This is why so many designs resemble one another.
Generative design is the embodiment of iterative design. When an engineer is faced with a particularly challenging weight, strength, or assembly constraint for a part, he or she may employ generative design processes to radically rethink and refine the solution.
AI, machine learning, and other digital tools are changing what’s possible for architecture. Bill Allen shares his thoughts.
A topology study featuring Solidworks.
The most advanced AI today doesn’t put much faith in human intuition. It should.
This blog focuses on lean product design methods, which enables creation of lightweight products meeting all their functional requirements at a reduced cost & time. The technologies that will be reviewed in this blog are Generative design and Topology Optimization.
Generative design is a design exploration process that uses AI to create a wide range of solutions and ideas for complex problems. Will AI take over the design world as we know it?
Learn why artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) are critical to the future of design.
Download this new white paper to learn more about the impact of emerging Generative Design tools and practices as a way to jumpstart innovation and eliminate much of the complexity surrounding iterative design workflows.
As product complexity increases and businesses seek opportunities for growth, simulation moves to the forefront for strategic capabilities around the Digital Twin, for predictive maintenance and closed-loop development, as well as additive manufacturing, and generative design.
Generative design is a design exploration process that uses AI to create a wide range of solutions and ideas for complex problems. Will AI take over the design world as we know it?
Learn why artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) are critical to the future of design.
Download this new white paper to learn more about the impact of emerging Generative Design tools and practices as a way to jumpstart innovation and eliminate much of the complexity surrounding iterative design workflows.
As product complexity increases and businesses seek opportunities for growth, simulation moves to the forefront for strategic capabilities around the Digital Twin, for predictive maintenance and closed-loop development, as well as additive manufacturing, and generative design.
AI-driven generative design will change how and what engineers design in the future, forever.
Learn all about generative design for thermal engineering. Download now generative design related papers and publications covering everything from cooling design and flow optimization to state-of-the-art methods.
This episode of The Cool Parts Show looks at FUV parts before and after their redesign for AM. We show replacement parts made additively that may look crazy but perform the same function as their conventional counterparts with less weight and perhaps considerably fewer manufacturing steps.
Design for additive manufacturing (DFAM) goes beyond design for manufacturing (DFM). It's not just about creating a part that can be 3D printed, but one that takes advantage of 3D printing's unique benefits.
Generative design is widely regarded as the Holy Grail of design engineering automation. Simply press a button, and have artificial intelligence create an optimized part. It's a supremely difficult challenge, and, like autonomous driving, is much more difficult than it appears. Engineering.com's design engineering expert Roopinder Tara discusses the state-of-the-art in generative design with Jim Anderton.
This blog post details how an AI-powered generative design tool, ColdStream, can significantly reduce engineering time. Let’s go over more details about each one of the approaches.
Dr. Andreas Vlahinos discusses the state of the art in generative design in general and of PTC Creo specifically.
Automatically generate optimized conceptual parts from a functional specification at the push of a button.
A generative design tool will utilize topology optimization in addition to other layers of optimization, resulting in an array of possible solutions.
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.
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.
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?
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.
This publication explores the combination of generative design and advanced two-phase cooling simulation techniques to efficiently create two-phase electronics cooling devices.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Bicycle component manufacturer, SRAM, used additive manufacturing and generative design in Autodesk Fusion 360 to create a new type of bicycle crankarm.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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?
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.
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.
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” 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.
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.
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.
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.
Generative design replicates natural world's evolutionary approach with cloud computing to provide thousands of solutions to one engineering problem.
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.
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.
A presentation by CIMdata's Dr. Keith Meintjes at the 2018 CAASE conference.
A Digital Engineering Webcast from November, 2018.
This presentation illustrates the Generative Design requirements assessment using the ASSESS assessment model and intrinSIM quantification method.
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.
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 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 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.
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.
