nTopology
nTopology
Compliant bike seat tailored to pressure map data from the rider using nTop Platform 2.0.
Software developer nTopology has unveiled the latest version of its computational modelling platform featuring a series of new and improved toolkits.
nTop Platform 2.0 includes pre-packaged lightweighting, architected materials, design analysis, topology optimisation and additive manufacturing toolkits and also affords users the opportunity to create their own proprietary toolkits. These updates bring with them enhanced capabilities to a software platform that already allowed users to consider the geometry, performance and manufacturability of parts simultaneously.
The company believes the software updates will help to deliver greater efficiencies and scale businesses, allowing them to build reusable workflows and saving hours, days and weeks through the automation of certain tasks.
“We are excited to release 2.0 of nTop Platform,” commented Bradley Rothenberg, CEO of nTopology. “nTop toolkits enable the best engineering workflows to spread wide throughout industries, making the most advanced modelling technology accessible to any design engineer.”
nTop Platform 2.0’s Lightweighting Toolkit allows users to shell parts in seconds, regardless of the geometry’s complexity, and apply variable wall thicknesses to those shelled parts, while the Architected Materials Toolkit lets them design with multifunctional requirements like the structure, acoustics and aesthetic of parts, from the start. The Design Analysis Toolkit uses fully integrated simulation capabilities to analyse parts in a single workflow and facilitates integration with ANSYS, Nastran and other simulation tools. The Topology Optimisation Toolkit allows users to find new designs and optimise an array of performance criteria and the Additive Manufacturing Toolkit positions, orients and prepares parts for 3D printing. Users can use this function to add lattice support structures easily, slice parts and export the data directly to the machines.
The additive manufacturing capabilities will be of interest to users of many EOS machines after nTopology aligned itself with the hardware vendor’s Digital Foam programme late last month.
“The flexibility and high-performance of nTopology software and its ability to package-up customers workflows helps us and our customers to create advanced Digital Foam,” explained Fabian Krauss, Global Business Development Manager at EOS. “We use it in projects to create 3D printed products with architected materials properties tailored exactly to customer needs. It unlocks the true potential of generative design in additive manufacturing for Digital Foam and for many other applications.”
