After decades of watching 3D printer technology move forward with bigger machines and fancier materials, the software might be catching up to the hardware.
Markforged has released a new simulation-driven technology integrated within its Eiger workflow. The simulation tool helps engineers develop designs that optimize for stiffness and strength before anything is printed. The Waltham, Mass. 3D printer company is betting that giving its customers better tools to understand the strength of 3D-printed components will help push its technology forward.
The simulation tool offered by Markforged. (Image: Markforged.)
To highlight the abilities of the new simulation tool, Markforged published a case study featuring the Spanish research and development company PUNCH Torino. The team used the new simulation features to build a camshaft-locking tool for prototype engine assembly. The new…
