Various Consequences

This little octet truss example cube moved from "First to Try" to "Successfully Printed" on my Shapeways store . They ...

I really like his 3-D printed titanium part at about the 8 minute mark, and the chainsaw clutch at minute 10 is pretty neat too. The eig...

I was recently excited to learn about the OpenLSTO and InverseCSG projects, and that got me thinking: can we automate topology optimizat...

Optimized 3D Cantilever from OpenLSTO Tutorial I was excited to see this short mention of a new open source topology optimization code i...

From The Design of Michell Optimal Structures Here is an interesting paper from 1962 on the design of optimal structures: The Design of ...

Interesting video of a talk by Ole Sigmund on optimizing topology for fluid mixing or heat transfer.

This post summarizes the steps to install ToPy in Fedora 26.

Topology Optimization Data Set for CNN Training Neural networks for topology optimization is an interesting paper I read on arXiv that i...

Helical Extruder Gear for Printrbot with Optimized Topology I've used a couple different methods for stringing together open sourc...

There are lots of open source topology optimization options out there (e.g. 99 line code , ToPy ) that I've written about before . One...

I found a useful bracket on thingiverse for mounting things on a 3-in tack strip. Of course I thought this was a perfect opportunity for ...

Topologically Optimized Bracket by KMWE + TU Delft The winners for the GrabCAD GE Bracket Design challenge have been manufactured and te...

This little app from the TopOpt research group at the Technical University of Denmark is lots of fun to play with. Versions available: ...

I wrote previously about some neat entries in the GE Engine Bracket Challenge on GrabCAD that used topology optimization. As reported by ...

I found this article, Why is the Pentagon Dragging Its Feet on 3D Printing , by way of Small Wars Journal . It has some interesting informa...

There is an interesting contest on GrabCAD for designing a lighter weight engine bracket for a GE engine the winner of which GE will produc...

Previously, I did a quick and dirty scaling study on how long it takes to make a 3D cube of octet truss unit cells in BRLCAD . I posted so...

Cost for 3D Octet Truss Arrays i j k time (s) stl (bytes) WSF ($) 1 1 1 1 1.47 73384 2 2 2 2 28.74 435384 2.61 ...

Random Octet Truss Array ( on shapeways ) This post demonstrate a work-flow for topology optimization using open source tools (with mixe...

Rough Hex Output & Smooth Surface Reconstruction for Dogleg This post describes a set of open source tools for simple topology optimi...