Engineering software developernTopologyhas raised $40M in its latest round of series C funding.
Led by venture capital firm洞察合作伙伴，投资回合将用于进一步开发公司的拓扑优化平台，同时推动全球采用。额外的投资是由Grant Verstandig进行的根,迦南,DCVC， 和草垛。
Ntopology还表示，Insight Partners的经营合伙人Josh Fredberg将与公司的董事会一起卡尔·巴斯（Carl Bass），前首席执行官Autodesk。
The nTop platform
The ability to produce parts with organic shapes and geometries is often considered one of additive manufacturing’s greatest strengths. However, problems tend to arise in the design phase before any actual manufacturing takes place. Despite decades of technological advancements and refinements, many of the modern 3D CAD programs of 2020 are still based on 40 year old primitive fundamentals. With engineering problems increasing in complexity year-on-year, the design tools available to us simply can’t scale up.
这是利基ntopology试图填充其NTOP生成设计平台，该平台在目标驱动和计算前提下运行，以生成最终用途应用程序的优化零件设计。该软件声称要建立在三个主要支柱上，第一个是与fast, unbreakable geometries.NTOP以其“极端可靠性”和“闪电快速”的过程感到自豪，同时即使在处理复杂的设计时，也将文件大小保持在最低限度。
第二个支柱，平台的现场驱动设计, gives the user precise control over part geometry. In some cases, structural analysis results, or fields, can be used to thicken the walls in a certain region of the part where stress may be highest, intelligently improving the performance of the part.
The third and final pillar relates to可重复使用的工作流程。该软件使多个用户能够协作复杂的机械系统的开发。这些系统可以是”deployed and reused by engineering teams throughout the organization”, allowing different departments to redeploy certain aspects of a project as and when needed.
nTopology’s next steps
According to Bradley Rothenberg, CEO and Founder of nTopology, in the next five years we’ll see engineering companies producing around 30% of their industrial parts using additive processes. Using the recent capital injection, the company would like to be at the forefront of this trend, offering engineering partners the opportunity to grow with the power of generative design. Rothenberg doesn’t see nTop replacing traditional CAD, instead supplementing it and solving the more complex problems that programs like扎实的作品were never really built for.
去年年底，ntopologyopened itsfirst European office作为对公司在欧洲不断增长的客户群的回应，在德国雷根斯堡。不久之后，该公司也进入了Cooperative Research and Development Agreement和橡树岭国家实验室(ORNL). The partners have since been integrating nTopology’s software into ORNL’s machine controls with the aim of optimizing its manufacturing process.
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Featured image shows metal part designed using the nTop platform. Photo via nTopology.
