Design lighter components with generative design

Engineers use generative design to get lighter components that use less material

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Based on loads, design space and manufacturing process, the tool suggests component shapes that need less material and still hold. Designers see solutions they would not have come up with themselves and save weight and material, especially on brackets, mounts and housing parts.

Is this for you?

  • You design components where weight or material use matters, such as brackets, levers, mounts or fixtures.
  • Loads, design space and manufacturing process can be described clearly.
  • You have FEA expertise in-house and can make prototypes or have them made.
First step today

Take a simple, non-critical bracket from your existing parts and use the template below to write down the requirements the way a generative design tool needs them. Ask for a rough preliminary sizing and check the calculation yourself.

How to go about it

  1. Define load cases, design space and manufacturing
  2. Provide the CAD design space and material data
  3. Have shape variants generated
  4. Recalculate variants and clean up the design
  5. Make and test a prototype
  6. Feed test results back into the specifications

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