US 3D printer OEMCarbon购买了生成设计软件开发人员paramatters. The move marks the California-based photopolymer 3D printing specialist’s first acquisition.
The ParaMatter purchase expands the topology optimization capabilities of Carbon’s software offering in a way that should allow users to create better products in less time. Using its improved program portfolio, Co-founder Phil DeSimone says the firm will now be able to address a gap in the market for a modern design platform that enables users to take full advantage of 3D printing in new product iterations.
“We recognize the critical role software design tools play in our customers’ digital transformation,” says DeSimone. “For far too long, designers have settled for software design tools that adhere to the limitations of traditional manufacturing. Many design tools of yesterday are not optimized to take advantage of industry innovations, including advanced 3D printing materials and manufacturing processes.”
Digital Light Synthesis technology
Based in California, Carbon is a developer of 3D printers, materials, and software that revolve around its Digital Light Synthesis (DLS) technology. The process works by using Digital Light Projection and oxygen-permeable optics to cure polymer resins into parts. To facilitate the production of products with engineering-grade mechanical properties, materials used with Carbon’s systems are usually embedded with heat-activated programmable chemistries.
The performance of Carbon’s machine portfolio, which currently includes theM1,M2， 最近的M3和大幅面L13D打印机也通过其软件产品进行了优化。今年早些时候，该公司推出了碳设计引擎，该计划致力于帮助自动化开发格子组件的过程。
Carbon说，其设计引擎功能强大的基于云的计算工具可以在几分钟内生成先进的保形晶格，其特征是令人印象深刻的影响吸收特性。随着其收购，该公司现在将扩大其软件的能力和可寻址市场，而Paramatters Cognaticad用户已经包括Google，Renishaw，Volkswagen等。
碳的扩展软件产品
According to Carbon, most software platforms used for designing and manufacturing tend to be programmed to address the constraints imposed by traditional manufacturing methods. As a result, whether designed to optimize injection molding, casting, or subtractive production processes, such programs don’t allow adopters to iterate products as quickly as they could with 3D printing.
该公司特别说，传统的CAD和CAE工具“笨拙且效率低下”，同时“相互融合不足”。由于这些工具是专门针对添加剂制造的，Carbon还声称它们需要高水平的专业知识来运行并最终导致浪费。雷电竞充值
As such, the company views its acquisition as a means of meeting a market need. Building on the Carbon Design Engine, the firm’s Paramatters purchase has expanded its software’s topology optimization capabilities. It’s thought that doing so will unlock the automated creation of more complex, higher-performance parts.
In practice, the firm’s revised program is set to feature a five-step workflow that allows users to go through design analysis, validation, and CT scanning stages, in a way that should improve part manufacturability. With the addition of ParaMatters’ technology, Carbon believes its software’s manufacturing, inspection, and post-production simulation features could also unlock part consolidation opportunities.
“软件是我们思想到生产平台的骨干，我们认为Paramatters的生成设计功能是我们设计软件的关键扩展，” Carbon CTO Craig Craig Carlson补充说。“通过扩大针对添加剂制造优化的软件功能，我们正在授权一代设计师和开发人员创建具有先进几何形状和改进性能特征的更好的最终用途产品雷电竞充值。”
借助拓扑优化软件，用户可以根据针对各种制造过程的定义参数集快速迭代设计，并且该技术也继续在3D打印中获得吸引力。nTopology’s generative design platform, for instance, which allows adopters to bypass the limitations of conventional design tools, is set to be bolstered bynew engineering DFAM tools.
Another option for those seeking an accessible means of uncovering designs that reduce weight, increase structural integrity, and extend durability at a reduced price, there’s also the Generative Design Extension for Autodesk Fusion 360. Much like ParaMatters’ software, the program is marketed as being capable of enabling part consolidation while also identifying material and other cost-cutting opportunities.
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