nTopology helps engineers
design
transformative products and iterate in real-time
Finally, engineering design software built for additive manufacturing.
Unlock complex geometries and performance capabilities not possible with traditional CAD.
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How leading engineers use nTopology.
Lightweighting
Decrease weight and manufacturing costs while maintaining structural integrity, improving fuel efficiency, and reducing carbon footprint.
Thermal Management
Design compact heat exchangers with increased efficiency and reliability to maximize heat transfer and minimize losses.
Architected Materials
Create fine-tuned structures with targeted physical response to expand the range of engineering materials and enhance performance.
Mass Customization
Build automated design processes to manufacture personalized products at a cost and quality comparable to mass production.
Industrial Design
Design products with unique aesthetics and function using software that keeps up with the speed of the creative process.
Manufacturing & Tooling
Eliminate workflow inefficiencies with design automation to maximize throughput and improve tooling performance.
Unlocking the full potential of additive manufacturing.
Lattice Structures
Generate lattices in seconds—design products with reduced weight or superior heat transfer and energy absorption.
Topology Optimization
Drastically reduce material cost and engineering design time with automated topology optimization and post-processing workflows.
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Surface Textures
Create procedural textures or import them for bitmap and apply them to any surface, no matter how uneven or complex.
Simulation
Quickly evaluate part performance with built-in simulation tools or connect with external design analysis suits for verification.
Design Optimization
Enhance product performance characteristics using data of different types from the most relevant sources.
Build Preparation
Automate the orientation, support generation, and slicing of the most complex additively manufactured part designs.
Design Automation
Create reusable workflows to automate repetitive tasks from design and simulation to build preparation and custom fixture generation.
Real-Time Visualization
Preview changes in real-time for rapid iteration. Rebuild even the most complex designs in seconds.
Integrations
Import and export design, simulation, and manufacturing data and connect with your PLM system.
nTopology offers solutions to tackle the specific challenges of your industry.
Aerospace & Defense
Leaders in Aerospace & Defense are relying on nTopology to gain a competitive advantage by developing innovative products that are higher performing, lightweight, and fully utilize advanced manufacturing processes.
Aerospace & Defense
Automotive
From design automation and lightweighting to more efficient cooling systems to 3D printed foam seats, Automotive leaders are taking advantage of nTopology to solve pressing mobility challenges.
Automotive
Medical
Medical device companies are relying on nTopology to go to market faster with innovative or patient-specific solutions that improve patient outcomes while maintaining compliance with regulatory standards.
Medical
Consumer Products
From footwear and protective equipment to consumer electronics, nTopology’s advanced design capabilities enable companies to create previously impossible designs with unique aesthetics and enhanced ergonomics at breakthrough speeds.
Consumer Products
Industrial
Innovative companies in the industrial sector are unlocking value with nTopology by removing production bottlenecks using design automation or improving the performance of critical manufacturing and energy production systems.
Industrial
Education & Research
nTopology’s education community brings educators and students together to share ideas and collaborate across institutions. Researchers are using nTopology to make breakthroughs in design for additive manufacturing.
Education & Research
Trusted by world-class teams. From startups to Fortune 100 companies.
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"Every single pound of material you can remove from a spacecraft saves money on launch costs. That’s why we used nTopology to optimize the design."
James Horton,
Aerojet Rocketdyne
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"Using the added benefits of lattices, we can design parts with even higher added value than the shape obtained by pure density-based topology optimization."
Hiroyuki Nagamoto,
Yamaha Motor Co.
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"This product has been hugely successful for us, and this is definitely in part due to the lattice structure that was created by nTopology."
Beth Stuart,
SI-BONE
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"With nTopology, we were able to create a powerful and unique additive design. It wouldn’t be possible to create such a component with a traditional CAD system."
Martin Blanke,
DMG MORI
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"Nothing is fast enough for me, but everything is instantaneous in nTopology. I can do the things that are impossible with other design tools."
Enrique Enriquez,
KW Micro Power
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"The models are better, we save a tremendous amount of time on the design process, and we’re able to bring new people up to speed very quickly."
Amos Benninga,
LF Orthodontics
Integrates seamlessly with your workflow.
Import
Import CAD parts or other engineering data to feed your design process.
CAD
STEP (.step), Parasolid (.x_t and .x_b), CATIA (.CATPart), Solidworks (.sldprt), Creo (.prt), NX (.prt), Inventor (.ipt), ACIS (.sat and .sab)
Mesh
STL (.stl), OBJ (.obj), Polygon File Format (.ply), 3D Manufacturing Format (.3mf)
CAE
Abaqus(*.inp), ANSYS (.cdb, .msh, .rst, .rth, .cas, .dat), LS-DYNA (.k) NASTRAN (.bdf, .dat, .nas, .op2), Patran(.pat), CGNS, (.cgns), Universal File Format (.unv), Topology Optimization Result (.op2)
Slice
Common Layer Interface (.cli)
Other
Bitmap (.png), Point Data (.csv), Vector and Scalar Point Maps (.csv), Voxel Grid (.vdb)
Generate
Build reusable design workflows to generate high-performance geometry.
Lattice Structures
Volume and surface lattices. Graph, TPMS, and custom unit cells. Stochastic structures. Rib grids.
Topology optimization
Multi-objective and multi-constrain optimization. Automated post-processing.
Advanced Modeling
Variable shelling and offsets. Fillets and smoothening. Boolean operations.
Design analysis
Built-in structural and thermal FEA. Import, conversion, and exchange utilities.
Build Preparation
Part orientation. Support structure generation.
Export
Convert to B-Reps, meshes, slice data, or other engineering formats.
CAD
STEP (.step), Parasolid (.x_t and .x_b), IGES (.iges)
Mesh
STL (.stl), OBJ (.obj), Polygon File Format (.ply), 3D Manufacturing Format (.3mf)
CAE
Abaqus (.inp), ANSYS (.cdb), Nastran (.bdf), LS-Dyna (.k), Universal (.unv), Patran (.pat), Fluent (.msh)
Slice
Common Layer Interface (.cli), Common Layer File (.clf), Renishaw Point Data (.csv), Renishaw CLI (.cli), Arcam ABF (.abf), Stratasys Layer (.ssl), EOS CLI (.cli), BW image stacks (.png)
Other
Point Data (.csv), Vector and Scalar Point Maps (.csv), Voxel Grid (.vdb)
Connect
Integrate with your existing software stack to augment your processes.
PLM
Leverage reference integrations and the nTop PLM connector to integrate nTopology to your system.
MDO
We have demonstrated the integration of nTopology with popular multidisciplinary design optimization platform, including ModeFrontier, ModelCenter, and ProcesComposer.
nTopCL
Using nTopology’s command line interface, you can write custom code to execute nTop workflows through a programmatic environment.
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Accelerate your design & engineering process
With nTopology, you can solve the hardest advanced manufacturing and engineering problems, generate unique high-performance parts, share and reuse your workflows with your team, and more.
Now Powered by GPU Acceleration
With nTopology 3.0, advanced engineering design is now faster than ever before. Preview design changes in real-time and rebuild even the most complex designs in a few seconds.
Rapid Engineering Innovation
nTopology removes common design and engineering bottlenecks so you can unlock new value in your workflows. Directly control your process and its outputs to deliver results and innovate faster.
Transformative Technology
At the core of nTopology lies our implicit modeling engine that supercharges what you can do with advanced geometry and design data.
Unbreakable Geometry
Generate parts at lightning speeds no matter how complex, bypassing the bottlenecks of traditional modeling technologies.
Field-Driven Design
Control your designs at every point in space using simulations, test data, and engineering formulas to generate optimum results.
Reusable Workflows
Create configurable, re-executable, and shareable processes that package engineering knowledge and automate design tasks.
Applications
With nTopology’s diverse generative design toolset, unique design automation capabilities, and unbreakable geometry engine that can handle the complexities of advanced manufacturing, you can tackle even the most challenging problems of your industry.
Aerospace Engineering
Lightweighting
Variable Shelling
Advanced Lattice Structures
Performance Driven Design
Automotive Engineering
Architected Materials
3D Printed Foams
Texturing
Rapid Concept Design
Medical Devices
Osseointegrative Structures
Patient-Specific Devices
Implants
Prosthetics
Industrial Design
Conformal Patterns
Mass Customization
Texturing
Rapid Concept Design
Trusted by world-class teams
“We can get results 20x, 30x, even 50x faster with nTopology. Before, we only had enough time to produce one design; with nTopology we can have more variations and test them a lot faster.”
Lead Engineer, Lockheed Martin
“Using the added benefits of lattices, we can design parts with even higher added value than the shape obtained by pure density-based topology optimization.”
Hiroyuki Nagamoto, Yamaha Motor Co.
“The models are better, we save a tremendous amount of time on the design process, and we’re able to bring new people up to speed very quickly.”
Amos Benninga, LightForce Orthodontics
“Nothing is more valuable than seeing what you are doing while you are doing it! Any effort that brings down the visualization time for more seamless interaction with complex models is genuinely priceless.”
Onur Yüce Gün, New Balance
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nTopology Ecosystem
nTopology is so much more than a design engineering tool – it’s also a robust ecosystem designed to enable your success.
When you sign up for an nTop license, you also receive:
- Hands-on technical training and onboarding
- Support from the nTop team to help you set up your workflows
- Training and nTop Lives covering new applications
- Preconfigured workflows to jump-start your projects
- Extensive documentation and support
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