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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...