Innovative Software for Designing Additively Manufactured Fluid Flow Components (Influunt)

3D打印的出现，工业上称为增材制造（AM），正在颠覆组件的制造方式。AM有能力为多种跨部门技术制造越来越复杂的设计。例如，在航空航天领域，新部件的生产可以显著减少材料消耗和废料。目前的减成法通常会导致高达95%的原材料变成碎片和切屑形式的废金属。由于设计自由度的限制，传统的制造方法也可能导致过度设计的组件。Gen3D的增材制造设计（DfAM）愿景是基于保持“设计”和“制造”之间经常不同的方面之间的平衡。这一愿景通过独特的Gen3D软件平台得以实现。该软件可以使用受一系列专有制造过滤器约束的优化算法生成或修改几何形状。只能创建可制造的几何体。用户只需要描述零件的功能或为软件提供现有的几何形状，即可返回可制造的设计输出。此外，该软件不仅限于单一的增材制造工艺，还可以应用于多种增材制造技术，包括粉末床熔融、立体光刻和熔融沉积成型。这个雄心勃勃的颠覆性项目将开发新的设计规则、算法和软件功能，并嵌入Gen3Ds独特的软件中。这将实现并加速流体流动部件（如液压执行器和热交换器）的首次正确DfAM，并将改变复杂流体流动部件的实现方式，使其使用新的设计环境（类似于数字“白板”），设计人员可以灵活快速地更改和调整设计，同时遵守核心可制造性规则。这将首次确保设计在单一设计迭代中实现功能优化、显著轻量化和可制造性，从根本上改变工程师的设计方式。

The emergence of 3D printing, industrially termed additive manufacturing (AM) is disrupting how components are manufactured. AM has the capability to manufacture increasingly complex designs for a multitude of cross-sectoral technologies. For example, aerospace where new components can be realised with significantly reduced material consumption and scrap. Current subtractive methods can often result in up to 95% of the raw material being turned into scrap metal in the form of chips and swarf. Traditional manufacturing methods can also lead to over-engineered components due to limitations in design freedoms.Gen3D's vision of design for additive manufacture (DfAM) is predicated on maintaining in equal balance the connection between the often-disparate aspects of 'design' and 'manufacture'. This vision is realised through the unique Gen3D software platform. This software can generate or modify geometry using optimisation algorithms that are constrained by a series of proprietary manufacturing filters. Only manufacturable geometry can be created. A user only needs to describe the function of the part or provide an already existing geometry for the software to return a manufacturable design output. Furthermore, the software is not limited to a single AM process and can be applied to a multitude of AM technologies including powder bed fusion, stereolithography, and fused deposition modelling.This ambitious and disruptive project will develop new design rules, algorithms and software features that will be embedded within Gen3Ds unique software. This will enable and accelerate the right-first-time DfAM of fluid flow components, such as hydraulic actuators and heat exchangers.It will transform how complex fluid flow components are realised using a new design environment (akin to a digital 'whiteboard') in which the designer can flexibly and quickly alter and adapt designs whilst simultaneously adhering to core manufacturability rules. This will, for the first time, ensure that designs are functionally optimally, significantly light-weighted and manufacturable in a single design iteration fundamentally changing the way engineers design.