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Additive manufacturing is creating new possibilities for designing advanced products, but there are still challenges to overcome to ensure quality of advanced applications—from aerospace to medical. In this article, we explore how to take advantage of the latest metrology technologies.
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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?
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The founding mission of polySpectra is straightforward: to create engineering-grade materials for additive manufacturing that help designers, inventors, and engineers make their ideas real. That last word is really key for us. We only focus on what’s real, what’s possible; and if it’s not possible today, we focus on how to make it possible tomorrow.
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This article shares an example of using nTopology to optimize a part and export it as a CAD body, then using Abaqus to calculate the stress intensity factor of cracks that develop perpendicular to the highest tensile principal stress.
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As technology advances, limitations of legacy systems become more apparent. With the increase in design complexity, the weakest link in many additive manufacturing (AM) workflows today is the technology used to transfer design data between systems. Here’s how we can bypass this roadblock.
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Integrated into the nTopology software interface, the nTop Notebook packs unique capabilities. This article dives into the core elements and evolution of the Notebook and introduces some recent features to help increase productivity.
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Understanding Design for Additive Manufacturing is essential if you use 3D printing anywhere in your production process. But where should you begin? This guide explains the basics of DfAM and introduces the intermediate and advanced concepts you need to succeed.
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Effective thermal management is crucial if you design products with electrical components. Discover how 3D printing can enable you to take your thermal management efforts to the next level by creating more compact and efficient heat exchangers.
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Architected materials and additive manufacturing unlock new opportunities for managing impact absorption. You can maximize your control over the collapse with the right tools and design methodology.
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Download this free guide to learn how to maximize the impact of your lightweighting initiatives through smart design.
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This guide explores how additive manufacturing, when combined with advanced engineering design software, can enable thermal engineers to address this need for more efficient and compact HEXs.
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This video shows you how to set up and reuse a structural analysis custom block. The presenter sets up a single load structural analysis workflow, condenses it into a custom block, then imports the custom block in a different file and runs simulations across multiple parts.
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Additive manufacturing enables you to create next-generation heat exchanger designs to meet increasing product requirements. This article guides you through the engineering design techniques you need to know and how to get started.
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Working with CAD assemblies in nTopology has become easier. The new version of the Import Part block preserves assembly component metadata and hierarchy.
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Read more about nTopology’s 3rd generation latticing technology.
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This report documents the design process of a Fuel Cooled Oil Cooler (FCOC) from initial design in CAD, process steps in nTopology, 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.
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In this webinar, Professor Olaf Diegel presents a workflow for designing a gyroid-based radiator, a type of air-to-liquid heat exchanger, in nTopology.
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Accurate mesh generation is a critical step of every engineering design workflow that involves FE analyses, CFD simulations, or Additive Manufacturing. Here, we give you practical tips and design considerations for meshing parts with complex geometries, like lattice structures, using nTopology’s powerful meshing capabilities.
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Filtering contaminants from high-temperature and high-pressure flows can often justify the use of additive manufacturing, especially when the performance enhancements provided by advanced design techniques are considered. This article demonstrates this through two design examples and describes how these techniques can apply to other applications, such as boosting reaction rates in catalytic processes.
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In this nTop Live, Andrew Sartorelli, Product Manager at nTopology, shows you how to import topology optimization results from Altair Optistruct® and automatically reconstruct the geometry to produce a manufacturable part.
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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.
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Field-Driven Design is a methodology enabled by the unique capabilities of nTop Platform. Field-Driven Design is a radically better way to generate & control complex part geometry for engineering, manufacturing, and product development.
This whitepaper describes the general concepts of Field-Driven Design, how to create and use fields in nTop Platform, and how to use this unique design methodology to unlock new applications.
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Over the past 12 months, nTop Platform has evolved into an advanced engineering product development platform. Engineering teams are using our software to tackle the most challenging problems. With 2020 soon coming to a close, now is the perfect time for an end-of-the-year retrospective. Here are the nTop highlights of the year.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Titanium is the blank canvas on which advanced additive designs can be placed.
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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.
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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.
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This document describes the modeling technology used in nTop Platform, and explains how this differs from the approach used in current CAD systems. As we will see, nTop uses a completely different approach to solid modeling, which delivers large and sustainable advantages in reliability, speed, and scalability.
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Maiki Vlahinos, Senior Application Engineer at nTopology, describes the simulation-driven methodology he followed to improve the performance of an advanced heat exchanger by 300%; specifically, a Fuel Cooled Oil Cooler for aerospace applications.
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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.
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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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Engineers can now use additive manufacturing, topology optimization and computational fluid dynamics (CFD) to build, shape, optimize and evaluate designs that were previously impossible to produce.
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Creating complex geometry simply and mixing lattice structures with easy in nTop Platform.
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Software solutions like nTop Platform enable engineers to design medical implants that are biologically-relevant and optimized for osseointegration.
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Learn how nTopology's generative design software, nTop Platform, allows engineers to automate workflows, optimize designs, and go right to manufacturing.
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Complex modeling operations, often seen as risky or fragile in traditional CAD software, do not fail in nTop Platform. Because of automation, things like large scale fillet operations can be condensed to a property or variable as part of a separate modeling operation.
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Everyone wants lighter parts, be it for quicker cars, cheaper air travel, or simply bragging rights at your next group bike ride. But it's often difficult to know where to start, with the endless combinations of materials, processes, and design tools available today. Here's a list of 5 techniques to get you started on putting your parts on a diet.
