Bruce Jenkins | Ora Research Cyclone Racing, Iowa State University’s Formula SAE team, consists of 40+ active members who design, build, test and race a formula-style race car each year to compete with approximately 80 teams representing seven different countries at the Formula Lincoln event and some 30 different teams at the Formula North event. […]
Webinar: 7 Simple Strategies to Design More Efficient Parts and Products Today
What keeps you up at night? Balancing and managing huge lists of requirements can quickly become a significant challenge. Recently, new tools, methods, and strategies have been introduced to alleviate some of these challenges. This webinar will give attendees an introduction to a number of tools and methods to help increase the…
Engineering students build a better steering mount
Michael SÜß, a Research Fellow at the Technische Universität in Dresden, is currently working on his PHD, which focuses on design guidelines for additive manufacturing/electron beam melting. When looking for a demonstrator to design as a portion of his research, SÜß thought back to his time working on a Formula Student team. “I wanted to […]
Proving additive manufacturing for aerospace replacement parts
Doug Hedges, the President of Sintavia, is a mechanical engineer and an additive manufacturing professional. His experience includes part manufacture approval (PMA), designated engineering representative (DER) repairs, OEM part manufacture and design, and large-scale jet engine maintenance, repair, and overhaul (MRO). Recently, Doug set out to prove the ability to additively manufacture aerospace replacement parts. […]
Motion and visualization capabilities headline 2017 release of solidThinking Inspire and Evolve
For the 2017 release, the solidThinking product teams focused on improving current product usability and adding multiple customer requested features. Jim Hassberger, President of solidThinking noted, “Inspire was the first tool to market that focused on putting generative design in the hands of design engineers and it continues to be a world-class product. The latest […]
Webinar: Design Value into 3D Printed Parts
Watch On-Demand Now! Go Here>> This Webinar originally broadcast Wednesday, September 21, 2016 2:00pm EST/11:00am PST We all know additive manufacturing offers many benefits, some of these include design flexibility, on-demand production, lightweight production, less waste, short lead times, and more. However, just because we CAN produce something additively, does not mean we SHOULD. Producing…
Webinar: Five Steps to Optimize Casting and Eliminate Defects
Traditionally, engineers had a hard time predicting defects with their cast designs. With simulation, engineers can now predict defects from porosity and cold shots to air pockets. In this webinar you will learn how casting simulation can help: Place casting in-gates Place feed and risers Determine if continuous in-gates or fan in-gates are needed Determine…
Escalate Design with Topology Optimization: Design Lighter, Faster and Stronger
Fill out the form below to watch on demand. Too many structural components are designed with more weight and material than what’s actually required. With topology optimization, structurally efficient parts are easy to design — saving cost, strengthening durability, and improving safety. Learn how to enhance your design process by starting with the ideal shape…
Design optimization: Topology and much more
Topology optimization and its seductive biomorphic shapes are what many think of when they hear the word “optimization” in engineering design. But topology optimization is just one kind of structural optimization—and that, in turn, is only one of five broad classes of optimization technology available to engineers today. Equally if not more valuable, depending on…
Topology design program is faster, more accurate and supports assemblies
The latest generation of Inspire combines faster geometry functions with an updated user interface and expands the scope and complexity of problems it can address. Several new functions have been added based on the most common requests from the Inspire user community. These include: fasteners (bolts or screws), joints (pins or sliding pins), and contacts…
The Evolution of CAD
by Darren Chilton, Program Manager, Product Strategy and Development, solidThinking Designers seeking a solution for creating products for additive manufacturing, look no further than hybrid modelers. Without the…
Create Radically Better Products with Design Optimization and 3D Printing
Designing for additive manufacturing requires a new mindset. Simply designing traditional parts and producing with additive manufacturing will likely result in more costly, slower to produce results. In order to truly benefit from the advantages of the additive process, designers must think differently when designing parts. Topology optimization is a technology that generated ideal structural…
Software enables design freedom for additive manufacturing
The combination of topology optimization software and additive manufacturing can help you create a new generation of exciting products. Tony Norton and Chad Zamler • solidThinking 3D printing…
SolidThinking Introduces Inspire 2014
Engineers and designers are under constant pressure to design innovative products. They are also under the gun to get these new products to market faster than ever. In order to empower them to accomplish these goals, design and simulation software tools are being increasingly used to optimize products early in the conceptual phase of development, […]
Inspire 2014 helps you design for additive manufacturing
The design goals of reducing weight and material usage are not just for aerospace and automotive applications, although this trend gained prominence through these industries. These goals can…
How to cut 45% of weight out of a 3D printed metal bike frame
Back in February of this year, Renishaw told the story of how it used metal based additive manufacturing to 3D print a metal bike frame. Additional information is…
Introducing solidThinking Evolve 2014
The Next Generation of Industrial Design Software is Here! solidThinking Evolve 2014 See it live in our FREE Webinar With the release of solidThinking Evolve 2014, we have introduced a new level of usability and efficiency. Model and render like never before with our class-leading new features. solidThinking Evolve builds on our prior releases by […]
Structural Topology Optimization: The opposite of FEA
Most of the big CAE vendors are enthusiastic proponents for the democratization of simulation. In fact, Googling the term leads to a treasure trove of results—and shows that each of the CAE vendors seem to have entirely different ideas about what democratization involves. While everyone seems to agree that democratization involves making simulation more available…
Software helps you design for 3D printing manufacturability
When used together, 3D printing and topology optimization can deliver objects with minimum mass, which will save money in raw materials. Topology optimization and additive manufacturing are…
Too Many Updates to Mention
There is another 3D modeling and rendering software news to report — solidThinking Version 8.0 – that touts dozens of improvements for both PC and Mac users. Here are some that might be of interest. The latest version of the software includes photorealistic rendering capabilities and the ability to exchange data with leading CAD/CAM/CAE software.…