Carbon, US manufacturers of the DLS 3D printing system, has announced that subscribers will now have access to an automated lattice generation tool.
我问过Phil Desimone，首席产品和业务开发官Carbon, for more information about the newly available Design Engine.
Select customers have previously used carbon’s Design Engine to produce optimized products such as protective helmets for sport and COVID-19 testing swabs. Lattices can provide a high payoff between the often competing requirements of cost, strength, and weight. These complex structures are challenging, if not impossible, to make with traditional manufacturing techniques.
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“Traditional CAD tools have not kept pace with the innovation of 3D printers and materials,” said DeSimone, Chief Product, and Business Development Officer. “On average, it can take 18-24 months to bring a consumer product to market. But when we put the best design tools, 3D printers, and materials in the hands of designers and manufacturers, we’ve seen our customers accelerate the development of innovative new products.”
3DPI: Can you tell us about any surprising applications of the lattice generation tool?
菲尔·德西蒙（Phil Desimone）: Resolution Medical leveraged the Carbon Design Engine to produce a lattice swab during the sprint to offset the shortage ofCOVID-19testing swabs (see这里更多）。在20天的时间里，该拭子是原型的，并用碳设计引擎进行了优化，并由医疗保健专业人员手中进行了优化。
此外，该软件已在生产中得到证明Specialized S-Works Power Saddlewith Mirror technology, theCCM超级钉X头盔， 和里德尔足球头盔。
3DPI: Is the release of this feature due to a push or pull, i.e., are many of your subscribers requesting this, or is the release something you are putting into the broader market for users to use AM in a more sophisticated manner?
菲尔·德西蒙（Phil Desimone）: Carbon has been using this tool for many years to derive the applications mentioned above. There are currently no design tools out there that can help design engineers speed up the design process from production to market while saving time and effort. What we’re introducing with Design Engine is a democratized technology, where engineers can design products on the fly very quickly and take advantage of the DLS printer to make products that they couldn’t make before.
碳之前知道这大流行,但become more clear to end-users: manufacturing and supply chains can’t afford to go back to pre-pandemic, antiquated methods of designing, producing, and distributing parts and products. Now that we’ve truncated the manufacturing piece with Carbon printers and materials, Carbon is on a journey to truncate the ‘idea to design’ side of the product development cycle. We are fulfilling a vision that has been talked about in the industry for years.
3DPI: Please can you quantify, probably with reference to a specific application/product, the cost and time savings, and the performance enhancement of using lattice designs from the Design Engine?
Phil Desimone：总体而言，Carbon Design Engine™平均生成晶格，平均在18秒内节省了57％的材料，并将打印时间平均减少了54％（有关更多信息，请参阅附件文档中的图像）。此外，这将对发现的应用程序数量产生10倍影响。
3DPI: How does lattice generation using the Carbon Design Engine differ from lattices’ production with nTopology software?
菲尔·德西蒙（Phil Desimone）: We, just as does nTopology, see an opportunity to accelerate the product design process. And, we hear from our customers that they are finding value in nTopology’s software.
我们的产品价值为其dFAM特性(打印ing and additive materials aware), its ability to conformally populate design spaces with a wide variety of strut and surface lattices specified by zone, transitions between zones, and features to tune performance around organic shapes (heads, feet, hands, etc.). Some of these features will be in future versions but have been used on public parts like Specialized Saddle, CCM Helmet, and others.
Use of Design Engine lattice generation by Carbon subscribers
Jeff Dalzell, Vice President of Product Creation at CCM Hockey, said, “Working with Carbon allowed CCM to leverage its innovation pipeline to launch something the industry had never seen before in the Super Tacks X helmet. Carbon technology has evolved, enriched, and accelerated our approach to product design allowing us to go from idea to production at record pace.”
“Within days of prototyping with the Design Engine, we gained creative insights into even more applications for performance-oriented lattices in our future product lines.”
“Carbon has exceptional materials and printers and now self-service design tools to take full advantage of it. It’s the perfect marriage of software, hardware, and materials,” said Dr. Jörg Gerken, Technical Director atRPM, a Carbon Production Network partner.
Carbon’s Design Engine currently can produce five types of conformal lattice. Other lattice generation options include the开源水晶, a plug-in for Rhino and Grasshopper3D developed by Aaron Porterfield of FATHOM. In academia, the application of lattice structures to 3D printing has led to the novel projects such as thisreconfigurable liquid metal lattice hand.
Lattice generation is set to be vital for expanding the adoption of 3D printing. Bradley Rothenberg, CEO and Founder ofnTopology认为工程业务大约会a third of industrial components with additive manufacturingin the next five years.
今天的碳新闻是沿着这条路的又一步。
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