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Ansys Topology Optimization
Reinvent your product development process

A first-ever interactive topology optimization tool leveraging the gold standard of Ansys simulation to uncover design solutions through shape optimization, without the computational cost.

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ACCELERATE YOUR DESIGN PROCESS

Real-time Topology Optimization Paired with 3D Printing Drives Innovation

Explore multiple manufacturable designs in minutes through a fast and interactive experience, where you can define objectives easily and apply controls to ensure that manufacturing requirements are met, minimum material thicknesses are set and exclusion areas are defined.


Quick Specs

Ansys Topology Optimization produces design insights in real-time, driving inspiration and lightweighting design possibilities in less time.

  • Manufacturing Requirements & Constraints
  • Additive Manufacturing
  • Lightweighting
  • Performance Simulation
  • Real-Time Optimization
  • Lattice Optimization
  • Part Consolidation
  • Cloud Solve Capabilities
  • CAD Interoperability
  • 3D Printing
  • Shape Optimization
  • Design Parameters

Predator Cycling Optimizes The Cycling Experience With Simulation

Delivering a fast, trusted workflow, Ansys simulation created an AI-driven design with weight and structural integrity in mind.

Topology optimization of Predator cycling bottle cage

“I absolutely love topology optimization, it's my favorite thing ever. We had this idea for a bottle cage that would be perfect to 3D print, but we never would have figured it out without Discovery.”

Aram Goganian Chief Product Designer, Predator Cycling

Traditional design approaches often don't make the most of new manufacturing methods, like additive manufacturing, which removes design constraints and enables the creation of lighter and stronger parts and systems. Shape optimization can often be the missing link when a design solution isn't obvious.

The Predator Cycling Team's adoption of Ansys Topology Optimization enabled the creation of a product that satisfied and surpassed their design goals, while providing a product that improved their customers' experience.

Topology Optimization Can Benefit Any Industry

Ansys Topology Optimization capabilities expands the possibilities of design process performance targets. Whether your focus is on reducing weight in an airplane, or optimizing the design of a civil structure, Ansys Topology Optimization in Discovery and Mechanical provides opportunities to design creatively with speed and efficiency.

Our capabilities account for manufacturing constraints such as 3-axis milling, overhang prevention techniques and supports multiple load cases and physics, including modal and structural simulations.

What's most impressive is the optimization speed, allowing multiple iterations to be run in seconds and providing powerful guidance early in the design process when it matters most.

Topology optimization of an axle

 

Key Features

  • Manufacturing techniques & constraints
  • Real-time optimization
  • CAD Interoperability
  • Additive Manufacturing
  • Lattice Optimization
  • 3D Printing
  • Light weighting
  • Shape Optimization
  • Part consolidation
  • Performance simulation
  • Cloud Solve Capabilities
  • Validation

One word. FAST. It can build an optimal shape in about 60 seconds.

Unlike most optimization techniques, topology optimization utilizes a level-set‒based method, meaning that a precise smooth shape is defined at each step of the process.

The shape is also fully simulated at each step, enabling designers to review the evolution of the part’s behavior and performance.

Discover a variety of design solutions proposing a consolidation of multiple components into one or a few solid parts, reducing assembly costs and optimizing manufacturing techniques.

Identify solutions to minimize mass and material use, while meeting performance criteria, maintaining design goals, and holding engineering constraints.

Support multiple load cases and physics, including modal and structural simulations, making it easy to get a usable result the first time.  Invent better quality products in less time, while meeting design criteria, reducing material waste.

Leverage Ansys’ comprehensive additive manufacturing solution Ansys Additive Suite spans the entire workflow – from design for additive manufacturing (DfAM) through validation, print design, process simulation and exploration of materials.  Avoid build failure and create parts that accurately conform to design specifications with Ansys Additive Suite. 

Print your parts right the first time through a comprehensive solution, minimizing the risk of your additive manufacturing processes, ensuring high quality parts.

Featured Webinars

On Demand Webinar
Ansys Webinar
Structural Topology Optimization: What If Your Design Could Be Better

Learn how Ansys Discovery provides rapid design exploration through structural optimization and how topology optimization capabilities can apply to multiple load cases and physics, including modal and structural simulations.

Webinar Series
Ansys webinar
Lightweighting Webinar Series

This webinar series focuses on our lightweighting capabilities, which will help solve your toughest A&D engineering problems.

On Demand Webinar
Ansys On Demand Webinar
Optimizing Parts In An Electric Motor: Topology Optimization To Part Validation With Ansys Mechanical

This webinar showcases the workflow from geometry to validation for all available topology optimization methods, empowering you to generate truly lightweight structures.


Topology Optimization Resources

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Optimization's Role in the Changing Product Development Landscape

When it comes to product engineering, the landscape is changing, and companies must contend with many new challenges when designing and developing products.

Design Exploration for Every Engineer with Generative Design in Ansys Discovery

Design Exploration for Every Engineer with Generative Design in Ansys Discovery

Learn about generative design from Ansys and discover optimized designs for simulation or any manufacturing method. Rapidly evaluate hundreds of potential shapes with topology optimization.

Structural Topology Optimization: What If Your Design Could Be Better

Structural Topology Optimization: What If Your Design Could Be Better

Learn how Ansys Discovery provides rapid design exploration through structural optimization and how topology optimization capabilities can apply to multiple load cases and physics, including modal and structural simulations.

Real-Time Generative Design Drives Innovation

Real-Time Generative Design Drives Innovation

Learn how Ansys Discovery Live makes topology optimization an interactive part of the development process.


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