Check out this video on 'Computational Design for Large Gas Turbine Engines' from our recent computational design presentation at CDFAM - Computational Design Symposium. Our CEO, Bradley Rothenberg, and Andrew Kappers from Siemens Energy gave an overview of computational design and implicit modeling for product development. Check it out here: https://lnkd.in/eX-pMjRP #ntop #computationaldesign #implicitmodeling
nTop
Software Development
New York, NY 34,303 followers
Innovate. Iterate. Create.
About us
Design software for high-performance engineering.
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http://ntop.com
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- Software Development
- Company size
- 51-200 employees
- Headquarters
- New York, NY
- Type
- Privately Held
- Founded
- 2015
- Specialties
- CAD, 3D Printing, Additive manufacturing, Mechanical engineering, Industrial design, Product development, and Generative design
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Ready to take your designs to the next level? 🌐 Field Optimization with nTop is your gateway to unparalleled performance. nTop’s Field Optimization tools let you control and fine-tune lattice thickness, shell structures, and Voronoi patterns for lightweight designs that meet your exact performance needs. Whether it's for strength, stiffness, or weight reduction, these optimizations make your designs smarter and more efficient. 🚀 Why It’s a Game-Changer 🚀 - Tailored Design: Dynamically adjust key properties like lattice thickness and shell structure, lattice density distribution to meet specific performance requirements. - Precision Optimization: Optimize for multiple design criteria, ensuring your structures are lightweight, strong, and perfectly suited for their intended use. With nTop, you can seamlessly integrate field optimization into your design process, ensuring every aspect of your product is finely tuned for excellence. Step into the future of design with nTop. Explore field optimization today! https://lnkd.in/enFn2CRS #nTop #FieldOptimization #ComputationalDesign #GenerativeDesign
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We recently released a new visual update in nTop; adaptive resolution! Adaptive resolution increases rendering speed and quality for complex implicit models by dynamically adjusting the display resolution based on your view. 🔍 Get more precise feedback on your parts designed in nTop. Learn more about it here: https://lnkd.in/dGXhug-f #nTop #computationaldesign #visualupdate
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Check out the presentation Bradley Rothenberg and Andrew Kappers gave at CDFAM NYC on 'Computational Design for Large Gas Turbine Engines'!
https://lnkd.in/e756DthA Bradley Rothenberg from nTop & Andrew Kappers from Siemens Energy tag teamed their presentation on 'Computational Design for Large Gas Turbine Engines' showcasing the power of #ComputationalDesign with implict modeling and communication of complex geometries. "Computational design is literally a process of creating algorithms that capture design logic, allowing the computer to process shapes instead of manually drawing them" Brad Rothenberg, nTop "Implicit modeling is out of the R&D space now; it's beyond that. It's tested, it's in serial production, and it's in service." Andrew Kappers, Siemens Energy: Check out the full presentation : https://lnkd.in/e756DthA https://cdfam.com/24-nyc/
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Export your parts designed in nTop directly into Fusion 360 with the nTop for Autodesk Fusion plug-in 🔌 This app enables Fusion users to insert volumetric models created in nTop into their Fusion designs for manufacture. With this integration, you can: - Avoid meshing processes by importing implicit models from nTop directly into Fusion - Access Fusion's metal powder bed fusion process simulation capabilities to predict potential build failures and create compensated models Learn more here: https://lnkd.in/epXYrjMv #nTop #AdskFusion #integration
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We're excited to share that Blanca Aguado, our Chief Operating Officer, will be speaking at #AU2024 this year about Manufacturing Automation & AI Partners in Fusion! We hope to see you there! Enroll here: https://lnkd.in/eFHQBDGs @adskFusion #AU2024 #nTop
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I’m excited to be speaking this year on Manufacturing Automation & AI Partners in Fusion. Looking forward to sharing how nTop and Autodesk are working together to help engineering teams accelerate product development timelines via computational design. If you're attending the conference, please join us on Thursday, 10/17 https://lnkd.in/dg-VRbiK #AU2024 #autodesk #nTop
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For the same reason implicit modeling excels at lattices, it can create complex arrays and patterns at virtually no extra cost. We're talking arrays of tens, hundreds, thousands, or more (and not just identical ones). The output can be combined with other geometry and modified as any other object would be. Design parameters (not just offsets!) can even be varied throughout space within the array while maintaining the same computation speed. #implicitmodeling is changing what geometric complexity in CAD means and I can't wait to help push the frontier further. I decided to start making this simplified scale model of an adjustable exhaust nozzle as an experiment, in nTop, from scratch. It's inspired by the F-15 design and I've had a super fun time building it out. The current iteration is fully parametric, meshes super fast, and even includes a basic encoding of the main linkage with two angle inputs. This way, we can run (meshless!) CFD on it in different configurations. If I want to export it to other software, I have several options, and the .implicit file is just 123kB. What new #implicitmodeling features for arrays and patterns would you like to see in nTop?
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Congratulations Fynn-Henrik Duus on your master thesis! ✨ 'Concept development for the integration of mechanically highly resilient lattice structures in structural optimization using nTop's "implicit field technology" for additive manufacturing processes.' Awesome way to apply Field Optimization to a part like the GE Jet Engine Bracket. Thank you to Jaco Beckmann and Jens Telgkamp for sharing this work and advancing computational design methods!
𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗚𝗘 𝗝𝗲𝘁 𝗘𝗻𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗕𝗿𝗮𝗰𝗸𝗲𝘁 𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗯𝗲 𝗶𝗺𝗽𝗿𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗱 𝗯𝘆 𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗻𝗧𝗼𝗽 𝗻𝗼𝘄𝗮𝗱𝗮𝘆𝘀 More than 10 years ago, in 2013, the GE Jet Engine Bracket Challenge was organized as an open crowdsourcing competition by GE and GrabCAD. The idea was to identify new component designs for improved sustainability through greater design freedom by using additive manufacturing. Therefore, the challenge was awarded to redesign an existing titanium bracket for an aircraft engine in order to minimize aircraft weight, thereby improving fuel consumption and CO2 emissions. In the end, the bracket designed by M. Arie Kurniawan from Indonesia was chosen as the 2013 winner from almost 700 designs submitted from 56 countries. More than ten years later, advanced structural optimization software has made it possible to create new, improved lightweight designs with integrated lattice structures. By using nTop's advanced field optimization approach, not only was it possible to reduce the weight by over 83% compared to the original bracket. In direct comparison to the winning component from 2013, the von Mises comparative stresses were reduced by almost 28% while maintaining the same weight. Consequently, software developments in recent years have enabled completely new design solutions in the field of lightweight construction and heat exchanger improvements through the use of perfectly designed internal lattice structures combined with the high design freedom offered by additive manufacturing processes. This impressive development over the last ten years raises an exciting question: What will be possible in another ten years from now on? If you are interested in the nTop software, Bradley Rothenberg will present his engineering design software at the HAW Hamburg in two weeks on the 25th of October 2024 in the lecture “Topology Optimization and Design Rules for Additive Manufacturing” by Prof. Dr.-Ing. Jens Telgkamp. The presented results are from the submitted master thesis of our Hamburg University of Applied Sciences student Fynn-Henrik Duus with the title: Concept development for the integration of mechanically highly resilient lattice structures in structural optimization using nTop's “implicit field technology” for additive manufacturing processes. The research carried out in this master's thesis was supervised by Prof. Dr.-Ing. Jens Telgkamp as first examiner and Jaco Beckmann as second examiner. If you have any questions or if you would like to attend the nTop presentation on 25th of October 2024 in Hamburg, please do not hesitate to reach out!
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I have always believed that ‘Together, we can do more’. A great example of how collaboration can push our industry forward is the marine engine cylinder head by Wärtsilä. Our collaboration with nTop and Nikon SLM Solutions allowed Wärtsilä to overcome important challenges and make the unprintable printable! Carolyn Schwaar wrote an excellent piece about this amazing project, that I encourage you to read. #3DPrinting #Metal3Dprinting #3DPrintingChallenges