Accelerating Time to Market for Purpose-Built AM Software

Recorded at CDFAM Computational Design Symposium, NYC 2024Presentation AbstractFor the additive manufacturing industry to grow, unlocking production applications is critical. Building web applications targeting the AM industry is needed to make 3D printing easier to use in production settings. However, developing cloud-based applications that deal with complex geometries and CAD-like capabilities typically requires specialized expertise and a lengthy development process. This talk describes how two AM startups worked together to bring a web application for additive manufacturing to market in a compressed timeframe. We will present General Lattice’s Frontier web application for digital materials and describe their use of the Metafold implicit geometry kernel API. This collaboration allowed General Lattice to focus on their differentiated IP: offering validated materials and geometries from partner vendors to facilitate expedited path to commercialization.Speaker BiosDaniel is an entrepreneur and mathematician with extensive experience in geometric computing for the Additive Manufacturing industry. Before co-founding Metafold, Daniel held numerous roles in engineering firms working on complex geometric challenges in large-scale commercial construction. He is passionate about solving problems arising in industry with geometry and computation.Marek Moffett, co-founder General Lattice, leading General Lattice’s computational design and additive manufacturing team, focusing on the generation of lattice architectures and DFAM techniques. Leveraging years of research across several aspects of latticing, my goal is to deliver advanced material solutions to the industry, ultimately driving a wide spread adoption of superior performing products.CDFAM Computational Design Symposium series brings together leading experts in computational design from industry, academia and software development for two days of knowledge sharing and networking. Visit CDFAM.COM to learn about upcoming events around the world. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.designforam.com