Mar 28, 2017 | By Tess
Colorado-based Frustum, a developer of functional generative design and topology optimization software, has announced that, as part of the Siemens’ PLM Solution Partner Program, it will be offering its innovative design generator tools through Siemens’ NX software. Frustum’s new integrated module will allow engineers and designers to more efficiently optimize topologies for CAD-designed parts, which in turn could allow for the creation of more advanced and higher-quality 3D printed parts.
Generative design is a form of technology that is capable of automatically creating a number of designs based on a given set of parameters (material, function, weight, etc.). Once design are generates, users can then select a preferred one before tweaking it to perfection. By essentially removing the manual design step, generative design software offers a number of benefits, including significant time reduction. Frustum’s topology optimization software fits into this category, but is also equipped to automate a part’s weight and material reduction, while still maintaining its structural integrity.
By combining Frustum’s topology optimization with Siemens’ latest release of its NX CAD software (which itself uses convergent modeling), users will have the benefit of generating optimized designs that can be easily edited and prepared for additive manufacturing.
Bob Haubrock, senior vice president of Product Engineering Software for Siemens PLM Software, said: “Siemens is excited to offer our NX customers this truly innovative topology optimization solution from our partner Frustum. Frustum's unique technology, now fully integrated with NX and its exclusive Convergent Modeling, fits with Siemens' approach and vision to free industrial designers and engineers to create the next generation of parts and products that closely match customer needs, reduce energy consumption, and drastically reduce the cost and time to market for these innovations."
Using Siemens’ new NX CAD software, industrial designers and engineers will reportedly be able to consider and integrate a number of factors into a part’s design, including performance, structural strength, weight, in record time. That is, 3D printable parts can be optimized and even validated before they are sent to the printer. This in turn, will help to cut back on costs from part redesign, supports, and even post-processing.
"As a partner with Siemens PLM Software, we are thrilled to be part of the Siemens' NX solution," commented Jesse Coors-Blankenship, founder and CEO of Frustum. "This is great recognition for the power of our technology and optimization framework, which removes some of the barriers associated with additive manufacturing. We are excited to enable Siemens' NX customers to design fully optimized parts, ready for 3D printing, as well as empower them to move beyond the boundaries of traditional CAD geometry."
Frustum and Siemens’ software partnership is said to offer “demonstrable benefits” to a number of industries—aerospace, automotive, heavy machinery—that are increasingly relying on additive manufacturing to create strong, lightweight, and efficient parts.
Frustum has been a part of Siemens’ next47 partner program, which supports startups with innovative tech solutions, as well as its Frontier program, which is specifically geared to supporting projects in the fields of 3D printing, robotics, and augmented/virtual reality.
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