At the same time, Autodesk announced the establishment of a $100 million fund to invest in companies that will change the way products are designed and manufactured *The printed part, which was nicknamed the "bionic component", was designed using a special algorithm that motivated a design reminiscent of the way the human bone grows and was printed entirely in XNUMXD
Autodesk, the XNUMXD design and printing company and the aircraft manufacturer Airbus, announced a cooperation agreement under which they will design and manufacture the largest aircraft component in the world printed with XNUMXD printing technology.
The printed part, which was nicknamed the "bionic component", was designed using a special algorithm that motivated a design reminiscent of the way the human bone grows and was printed entirely in XNUMXD. The design and production resulted in the creation of a structure that is stronger and lighter than any structure that was produced using traditional techniques.
The manufactured component, which during its production had to take into account a variety of basic guidelines regarding weight and strength, will serve as a dividing wall between the passenger area of the plane and the area where the crew sits. According to Airbus estimates, the part is about 45 percent lighter than a traditional part, and its use in the A320 planes will save 465 cubic meters of C02 gas compound emissions - equivalent to taking 96 cars off the road every year.
The material used in the production is Scalmalloy, a combination of aluminum/magnesium/scandium, developed by APWorks, a subsidiary of it is intended for the fields of XNUMXD printing and offers ideal properties for the world of aviation. "The ability to connect to the production process an unlimited number of computer units, by using cloud computing, it is possible to explore a very wide range of printing options and choose the best one, when, in addition, the use of XNUMXD printing allows the creation of designs that are impossible to imitate in traditional production", Says Eitan Sarfati, co-director of the development center of Autodesk Israel and director of the XNUMXD printing field. "Already today we see that the industry and especially the design and production are changing with the introduction of new technologies and materials," says Farfati. "The current move is not a theoretical experiment, but a move to create a real functional component that will soon be integrated into an aircraft," says Sarfati. "Very soon the part will be integrated into the planes and a performance test will be conducted in field conditions."
Autodesk's Forge initiative: a $100 million fund to invest in companies that will change the way products are designed and manufactured
Autodesk launched the Forge initiative, a move that will harness the power of cloud computing to support the future of creating objects. The initiative has three parts: a PaaS (platform-as-a-service) platform, powerful software for development and an investment fund of 100 million dollars designed to promote the innovative technologies in the fields of design, planning and manufacturing in XNUMXD.
The Forge is a system of cloud services that comes into use immediately upon the start of development and is integrated throughout the entire production process, from the planning stage, through engineering, production and operation, and its use will allow developers, small and large, to build powerful and intuitive cloud applications.
According to Omar Hanspal, senior vice president at Autodesk who manages the field of development of solutions for designers and engineers across the industry, according to Hanspal, the entire move is accompanied by the allocation of a fund - the Forge Fund - with a pot of 100 million dollars to invest in the promotion of companies that will develop innovative solutions and services based on the platform the new, as well as technical and business support.
"The way we design and manufacture things is changing at a very fast pace and new technologies are currently changing every part of the product's life. "Forge will help developers build new businesses that will change the future of manufacturing," Hanspal said, inviting the global developer community to take advantage of Autodesk's cloud platform to build services that will bring connected technologies and empower the production experience.
Hanspal also announced a program of business partners, who will connect with Autodesk using the company's cloud platform and noted that six companies have already joined the move, including BriteHub, Proto Labs, FATHOM, 100kGarages, MakeTime and HWTrek.
