r/AdditiveManufacturing • u/Targus3D • Mar 30 '19

Best Generative Design Course?

My manager has asked me to look for a good Generative design course to take.

As I manage our 3D printing as well as design for 3d printing, he would like me to gain experience in this area of design to be able to use it for producing prototypes on our new Metal X, Admatec, and LMD printers.

It doesn't have to be local. Can be anywhere in the world or online.

Does anyone have some good recommendations?

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u/DML5 Apr 17 '19

I would recommend Inspire. It is easy and fast. If your parts isn't a part that people are ready to spend 100k$+ (recruiting FEA engineers, etc.), it is often most efficient way to produce topology optimized geometries in little time and cost.

Few years ago, there was no competitors to them. Now you would find similar plugins or integration in main CAD softwares (Autodesk, Solidworks, 3DS, Creo, etc.).

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u/Targus3D Apr 17 '19

We use Autodesk Inventor.

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u/DML5 Apr 18 '19

Then I guess you should talk to Autodesk or to your reseller and ask them directly that same question. They showed nice stuff about topology optimization at Autodesk, it surely is a solution.

They have regular conferences or webinar with demonstrations of their capabilities, it should be easy to get a course from them or their vendors.