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Analyze draft angles across your model to ensure it can be successfully molded or casted. The new draft analysis visualization color areas of your model based on a specified draft angle relative to a pull direction, helping you verify your design to meet manufacturability requirements. ✅ #nTop #UI #molding

Dr.-Ing. Max Gaedtke, founder and CEO of cloudfluid, presents how cloudfluid in collaboration with nTop revolutionizes the design process by seamlessly integrating flow simulations early on. Through lattice Boltzmann methods and high-performance graphic cards, cloudfluid offers unparalleled speed, eliminating the need for specialized hardware and reducing simulation time by 250 times. Say goodbye to complex meshing processes, as cloudfluid's voxel meshing algorithms generate meshes in seconds, enabling rapid prototyping and validation. Check out the presentation here: https://lnkd.in/eqQsx--P #nTop #cloudfluid #CFD #integrations

Identify regions in your model where angles may exceed the printable threshold with the new overhang angle visualization. This will help you make changes as you inspect the design for manufacturability ✅ #nTop #UI #3dprinting

Today, engineering teams in all industries are facing continuous pressure to create higher performing products with shorter – and less expensive – development cycles. 💡 In this recording, we will share how Computational Design is helping leading engineering teams generate, visualize, explore, and evaluate vast design spaces rapidly, so they can identify better solutions to their most challenging engineering problems. This approach shifts the focus from documenting a single design idea to building flexible computational models that support broad changes in form, so you can adjust key parameters of the system and quickly evaluate varying design possibilities. Aleksansdr Souk, Senior Mechanical R&D Engineer at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, will also share how they used a computational design approach to engineer a lower-cost, lower-lead-time component of a laser benchtop system currently produced using beryllium. The NASA team sought to replace beryllium with A6061-RAM2, a general-purpose additive manufacturing (AM) aluminum alloy with an elastic modulus less than half of beryllium. Check out the webinar here: https://lnkd.in/e34ar8MR #nTop #computationaldesign #NASA #thermal

We are thrilled to welcome Andrew Hanno as our new Vice President of Marketing at nTop! 🙌 Andrew brings deep expertise in digital marketing and SaaS, with a focus on industrial AI. As VP of Marketing, he will be responsible for our worldwide brand, demand generation, and product marketing functions at nTop. We are confident that his expertise and vision will help us accelerate our mission to transform engineering and product development through computational design. Welcome to the nTop team, Andrew! 🤝

-- Weight vs. Strength: The Constant Struggle in Motorsport & Aerospace -- In high-performance industries like motorsport and aerospace, the mantra is simple: "lighter is better." Every gram saved translates to improved performance, increased efficiency, and reduced fuel consumption. However, this relentless pursuit of lightweighting often comes at the expense of structural integrity. This is where computational design and design exploration really shine. By leveraging the power of computational design, engineers can explore complex, organic geometries that maximize strength while minimizing weight. This enables them to: - Optimize for specific loads: Design components that are strongest where they need to be and lighter where they don't. - Explore unconventional topologies: Unlock innovative designs that were previously impossible to manufacture. - Reduce development time: Iterate quickly and efficiently, accelerating the design process. nTop empowers engineers to push the boundaries of what's possible, creating lighter, stronger, and more efficient components that give their teams a competitive edge. #nTop #Aerospace #Motorsport #Lightweighting #Engineering #Design #ComputationalDesign #Innovation #Performance

Bradley Rothenberg talks about computational design and how Nvidia's Inception program empowers it. Check it out here 👇

Learn how nTop's automated geometry reconstruction, robust manufacturing constraints, and end-to-end optimization capabilities can significantly speed up your design cycles. 💡 Evan Pilz, Senior Application Engineer from nTop presents on how nTop tackles traditional pitfalls in topology optimization, such as geometry extraction and manufacturing constraints. He'll also share new topology optimization constraints added in nTop for different manufacturing methods such as additive manufacturing and 3 and 5 Axis Milling. Check out the presentation here: https://lnkd.in/e_3Cq_dz #nTop #computationaldesign #topologyoptimization

#ComputationalDesign is all about fast iterations. It's about taking design intent and engineering first principles and encoding them into a design that can be iterated hundreds or thousands of times. #implicitmodeling is like a super power that makes these things possible without having to worry about broken model trees and surface-surface intersections. In this latest nTop-only model, I have a wing with a spatially driven NACA airfoil profile. The special part is that airfoil profile comes directly from the NACA airfoil equations and is *completely spatially varying*. This means the four digit code, scale, and attack angle can change along the wing (and are not just stretched and distorted!). The ribs and spars are automatically created too, with all their own parameters, and slot together for prototyping. We can even integrate lift and drag coefficients over the whole wing to estimate overall performance (not to mention the derivative information we can access). I love this example because it's a clear case of encoding design rules directly into a computational model. We're working hard at nTop to make implicit modeling and building computational models easier next year, so I can't wait to see what other cool applications people come up with. ✈️

Wishing You a Wonderful Holiday Season! 🎄✨ As the year draws to a close, we at nTop want to take a moment to express our gratitude to all of our colleagues, clients, and partners. 🤝 Your support and collaboration has been invaluable, and we couldn't have achieved our goals without you. 🙌 This holiday season, we hope you find time to relax, recharge, and spend quality moments with your loved ones. May the spirit of the holidays bring you joy, peace, and inspiration for the year ahead. Thank you for a fantastic year, and here's to many more successes together in 2025! ✨ Warmest wishes, nTop 🚀