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Extending CAD for Additive Manufacturing

April 5, 2017

Following on the heels of its partnership with Stratasys, Siemens is extending its reach into the 3D printing/additive manufacturing market through a partnership with Frustum Inc. In this partnership, Frustum’s topology optimization and freeform geometry generator is now offered as an integrated module for Siemens NX software for computer aided design, manufacturing and engineering (CAD,CAM, CAE).

Frustum’s topology optimization software is a generative design technology that is said to streamline a product’s shape by automating weight and material reduction while still retaining structural integrity.

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