Aesthetic design
Create unique products and accelerate your process with next-generation design software for additive manufacturing.
Aesthetic design for additive manufacturing (AM)
Aesthetic design with additive manufacturing creates opportunities for engineers and designers to create innovative products with unique form and function.
Industry applications of aesthetic design
Aesthetic design for additive manufacturing helps create more innovative and competitive products across a range of industries.
Consumer products
The principles of aesthetic design and additive manufacturing are used across sports equipment, protective equipment, footwear, and luxury products to enhance user comfort, improve aesthetics, and create differentiation in product lines.
Medical device industry
Aesthetic design for AM unlocks new opportunities to improve the finished look and ergonomics of medical devices, such as handheld and electronic instruments.
Automotive industry
Aesthetic design for AM can reduce development time, improve functionality, differentiate products, and enhance the aesthetics of custom automotive accessories, exteriors, and interiors.
nTop has powerful aesthetic design tools for additive manufacturing.
Lattice structures
Generate complex lattices in seconds with the most comprehensive toolset for lattice design and optimization.
Design automation
Encode your expertise in a block-based visual programing environment. Scale your design processes with scripting.
Real-time visualization
Make changes to the most complex geometry in seconds. See your designs update in real-time with GPU acceleration.
Texturing
Apply textures for function or aesthetics to the surface of any part using nTop’s built-in 3D texturing tools or imported bitmaps.
Ribbing
Generate ribs and surface lattices that conform to the shape of any part and optimize them for strength and manufacturability.
Perforations
Generate perforation patterns with thousands of elements on the surface of any part. Control the hole shape, size, spacing, and direction.
Software built on transformative technology
Implicit Modeling
Design technology that will not break.
Remove design limitations and overcome fundamental challenges with our unique modeling engine.
Field-Driven Design
Your data goes in; optimized designs come out.
Feed your design workflows with real-world data, physics, and logic to harness the power of implicit modeling.
Design Process Automation
Build processes, not just parts.
Create reusable workflows and algorithmic processes that save you time and empower your team to scale.
Aesthetic design resources for engineers and designers
- VIDEO
Industrial design DfAM series: Designing a 3D printed shoe
- ARTICLE
Custom latticed-based flip flops for consumers
- VIDEO
Advanced texturing for industrial design applications
- ARTICLE
Design for additive manufacturing (DfAM) for industrial design speaker series
- VIDEO
Panels and covers for car interior | 3D texturing for industrial design part 3
Take your aesthetic design to the next level.
nTop has the tools you need to maximize the benefits of AM.