3D printing (additive manufacturing) will have a huge impact on future society. The vision is that you no longer need big factories, expensive tooling and long complicated production facilities to produce high end product. Manufacturing is brought back locally, with labor and environmental benefits as a result.
All nice and well, but how do you optimally design for 3D printing? One important tool is Topology Optimisation, a software tool that helps in creating complex, lightweight and stiff optimised components.
11. Topology optimisation
“is a mathematical approach that
optimises material layout within a given
design space, for a given set of loads and
boundary conditions such that the
resulting layout meets a prescribed set of
performance targets.”
27. Altair
Established name | Powerful engine | 3D printing mindset
Concept Engineer Simulation Engineer
For inspirational
optimisation studies
Industry standard
Increased functionality,
requires a specialist
28. Autodesk
Focused on 3D printing | Generative Design | Lattice structures
CAD integrated Lattice structures
Trained as automotive engineer, always at the forefront of innovation.
Weather it is electric vehicles, autonomous driving or 3D printing.
...while driving a Harley Davidson Electra Glide across the Nevada desert on the Extraterrestrial Highway. Almost running out of gas in the late evening fueled a brainstorm about a solar charged electric adventure motorcycles.
Days later a testdrive on an electric motorcycle was arranged.....while not impressed by that product, the potential was was clearly there.
Electric Motorcycles
Silent high performance riding = addictive
Achieving CO2 + emission targets with conventional tech => expensive
Polluting becomes socially unaccepted
Modern + high-tech image
Applicable to local manufacturing
Industrialization marked a shift to powered, special-purpose machinery, factories and mass production. The iron and textile industries, along with the development of the steam engine, played central roles in the Industrial Revolution, which also saw improved systems of transportation, communication and banking.
Design objectives:
Lightweight
Function and part integration
Topology optimized design