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Optimize or Generate?
Industry insiders explain the difference between the two approaches.
3D Printing Deployed in the War on Head Lice
Enventys Partners, Stratasys leverage additive manufacturing to reduce costs, design constraints and lead time on new head lice treatment.

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Technology Focus: Designing for Optimization & Simulation
Simulation is pervasive, with people from different departments and backgrounds discovering new ways to put it to use, in all of its varied forms.


Generative Design Pushes Workstation Performance
June 11, 2024
The design process requires the right hardware to support higher data and simulation workloads.
DfAM: Nine Best Practices
April 9, 2024
Here are nine tips to boost your design for additive manufacturing approach.
Optimize or Generate?
May 17, 2021
Industry insiders explain the difference between the two approaches.
Raytheon Technologies and Army Research Lab Pick 3D Systems’ Metal Additive Manufacturing Solutions
February 12, 2021
3D Systems’ DMP Factory 500 solution will be part of research effort to develop topological optimization that accounts for heat transfer.
ParaMatters 4.0 Generative Design Software Opens New Door to Automation
October 22, 2020
Autonomous generative design platform offers structural and thermal design and analysis, support structures and build orientation optimization for entire design-to-manufacturing process with various loading conditions.
MX3D Makes 3D-Printed Robotic Arm, Lenovo and AMD Partner for New Workstation, Autodesk Releases Generative Design Extension, More
July 15, 2020
MX3D Makes 3D-Printed Robotic Arm, Lenovo and AMD Partner for New Workstation, Autodesk Releases Generative Design Extension, More
Autodesk Fusion adds ECAD tools, Siemens develops CAD for VR, JPR publishes CAD report, more
February 6, 2020
Autodesk Fusion adds ECAD tools, Siemens develops CAD for VR, JPR publishes CAD report, more
Digital Twin Helps RCR Race to the Finish Line
December 2, 2019
Simulation and technology advances like the digital twin give RCR drivers an edge in horsepower and performance.
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Editor’s Pick: Tap Into More Powerful Simulation of Coupled Multiphysics Phenomena 
November 20, 2019
New features in COMSOL Multiphysics Version 5.5 include simplified shape and topology optimization; new options for nonlinear shell analysis; a new interface for pipe mechanics; and more.
ParaMatters CogniCAD Walkthrough
September 1, 2019
Setting up topology optimization problems is clear-cut in CogniCAD.
Increasing the Productivity of Metal AM via Partnership
July 26, 2019
nTopology’s partnership with Betatype yields 28% reduction in build time for rocket nozzle part.
Volkswagen Reshapes Classic Microbus with Generative Design
July 16, 2019
VW uses Autodesk Fusion to design the steering wheel, wheel, side mirror arm, and seat support for the new Type 20 concept minivan
ANSYS 2019 R2 Strengthens Digital Thread Between Design, Engineering and Manufacturing
June 7, 2019
Latest ANSYS release accelerates digital transformation across every industry.
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Field-Driven Design for Rapid Engineering and Collaboration
May 29, 2019
A new approach to multifunctional design uses fields to encapsulate shape, physics and manufacturing process in a single, unified environment.
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Re-evaluating Computer-aided Optimization
February 21, 2019
Traditionally design engineers take the lead in defining the shape of a product, but emerging generative design tools give software unprecedented autonomy.



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