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

3D打印的出现，工业上称为添加制造(AM)，正在颠覆零部件的制造方式。AM有能力为多种跨部门技术制造日益复杂的设计。例如，在航空航天领域，可以显著减少材料消耗和废品来实现新部件。目前的减法通常会导致高达95%的原材料变成碎屑和碎屑形式的废金属。由于设计自由的限制，传统的制造方法也可能导致过度工程化的部件。Gen3D的针对添加制造的设计(DFAM)的愿景是基于保持通常不同的‘设计’和‘制造’方面之间的平等平衡。这一愿景是通过独特的Gen3D软件平台实现的。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来生成或修改几何图形。只能创建可制造的几何图形。用户只需描述部件的功能或为软件提供已存在的几何图形，即可返回可制造的设计输出。此外，该软件不限于单一的AM工艺，可应用于多种AM技术，包括粉末床熔合、立体光刻和熔融沉积建模。这一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，这些将嵌入Gen3DS独特的软件中。这将实现并加速液压执行器和热交换器等流体流动部件的首次DFAM。它将改变复杂的流体流动部件使用新设计环境(类似于数字“白板”)实现的方式，在这种环境中，设计师可以灵活、快速地更改和调整设计，同时遵守核心可制造性规则。这将第一次确保设计在功能上最优，显著减轻重量，并可在一次设计迭代中制造，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.