Additive manufacturing (AM) — especially the latest metal-based 3D printing hardware — offers the ability to produce lattice-filled parts, asymmetrical shapes, and organic geometry for end-use parts. But without suitable CAD and FEA software for AM, designers may not be ...
Read More »Autodesk and America Makes Held Event to Promote Design for Additive Manufacturing
Additive manufacturing still has many gaps to fill to reach maturity. Part of the evolution may be the development of AM-aware simulation tools and design programs.
Read More »Panel Discussion on Industrial 3D Printing: Printable Geometry, Certifiable Parts, and Preventable Failures
Last week, DE hosted a LIVE roundtable talk on industrial 3D printing, featuring Professor Timothy Simpson, Pennsylvania State University; David Sher, Analyst, SmarTech Markets Publishing; and Ryan Lozier, AM Engineer, Caterpillar Inc. Sher, who recently published a report titled Opportunities ...
Read More »Before You Hit 3D-Print: A LIVE Roundtable on Industrial 3D Printing
3D printing or additive manufacturing (AM), once thought of as a prototyping technology, has graduated to become a way to manufacture end-use parts. Pioneering automotive and aerospace firms are using it to build lightweight shapes with lattice structures, to consolidate ...
Read More »GTC 2017: The Prospect of Voxel-Based 3D Printing, Optimization, and Simulation
On May 8, just as the 2017 NVIDIA GPU Technology Conference (GTC) was kicking off, a notice popped up in the NVIDIA DesignWorks forum. “We are pleased to announce the first release 1.0 of NVIDIA GVDB Voxels went live,” it ...
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