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“Without a repeatable process, you're forced to run production only during the day. It's very economically difficult to operate during day-shift only. Theoretically, you can have a very clever production system. But if it doesn’t work as intended, an investment worth $100,000s is at stake. nTop allowed us to use additive manufacturing to its full potential.”

“Until carbon fiber additive manufacturing catches up, we’ve nearly reached the limit of how far we can push the lightweighting of this part. There's currently no performance left on the table. The next step is applying this process to as many other parts on the car as possible.”

“The real value with nTop is its ability to accelerate our dev cycles so we can test and validate ideas as quickly as possible and go around the development loop again and again, quicker and quicker, until we can’t push our lightweighting any further. nTop is key to keeping us and the next generation of hypercars at the forefront of lightweighting technology.”

“Before we started using nTop, we could only simulate one load case at a time. If you're doing each load case within separate simulations and then adding them together, it takes forever, but more importantly, you end up with a heavy, suboptimal component. nTop solves this problem, which was crucial to the outcome of my dissertation project.”

“Winning the 24hrs of Le Mans can often come down to a matter of seconds. When we can save 7.8 seconds of race time by optimizing just one part with the latest lightweighting technology, that is very nearly the difference between winning and losing alone.”

“A big advantage of using nTop is that it’s possible to convert the result of the topology optimization into a useful model that can be either used directly or indirectly in another function.”

“The unbreakable geometry, reusable workflows, and simulation-driven design capabilities of nTop are extremely powerful ways of designing for additive manufacturing.”

“The main thing is, you need to iterate fast to win programs. You need to show you can be 100x or 1000x faster. The DoW wants reconfigurable, modular hypersonic systems, and most primes can't move at that speed. We're really impressed with the Specter team's leadership in building these next-gen engineering workflows.”

“If you can increase the fidelity of your concept design, it means the work you need to do to get to final production starts dropping like crazy. If you don't have those go-backs and you already understand your sensitivities, you save so much time.”

“If I can get 20% of the range for 10% of the cost, that changes the game. And with nTop, we can show the full cost-performance menu.”

“We can change the amount of channels, how big they are, different dimensions, all in real time. And it's allowed us to take this fluid volume, export it to a CFD software, to our own codes, and really figure out what the optimum sizing of that heat exchanger can be for any given design point”

“We typically do this in SolidWorks. Although it's great for doing detailed design, things get really hard when we want to make changes. When we partnered with nTop, one of the first things we went after was making a generalized model for a part like this.”

“I've been in concept design for hypersonic vehicles for 25 years. I have never seen something as useful as nTop for conceptual design.”

“nTop built a stepwise methodology that let us simulate over 400 design points in just a few hours, without a single failure.”

“Thanks to nTop, we were able to generate the lattice infill automatically. After we validated the geometry of the flow guides, we packaged the latticing workflow within a custom block, making it reusable on any future geometry.”

“Multi-objective optimization when there are no fixed and tested engineering workflows is challenging. The power and flexibility of nTop enabled us to manage the complexity of the DfAM process and grasp the concrete advantages of additive manufacturing.”

“If you are working on an implant you are likely making many configurations and sizes of the same product. Batch processing not only saves you so much time and manual effort, but it also reduces the risk of human error.”

“This product has been hugely successful for us, and this is definitely in part due to the lattice structure that was created by nTop.”

“The component is a testament to what can be achieved by engineering companies that leverage next-generation design and manufacturing tools. KW Micro Power was able to use the unique capabilities of nTop to design a part that is optimized for the application, and using VELO3D’s manufacturing technology meant there weren't compromises for manufacturability.”

“Nothing is fast enough for me, but everything is instantaneous in nTop. I can do things that are impossible with other design tools. In the past, we were always working from the outside. Now, we control every aspect of the geometry of our designs and their microstructure. If you want to make jet engines and APUs lighter and more efficient, this is the way!”

“As we evaluated design tools, nTop’s computational design software rose to the top because of its functionality, speed and ability to work within our existing workflow.”

“When we started using nTop, it was like all of a sudden we’d strapped a rocket engine to our backs. We could take one workflow and apply it to different projects. The speed with which you can create and iterate is game-changing.”

“As with any complex endeavor, the more affordable you can make it, the greater the chance that you will ensure its completion, and the moon is no different. Metal additive manufacturing plays a key role in achieving these goals.”

“Every single pound of material you can remove from a spacecraft saves money on launch costs. That’s why we used nTop to optimize the design.”

“Our new lattice-cylinder design is better than our fin cylinder in every way — which is a big deal.”