nTop for Lightweighting
Design and build lighter, higher-performance components
Minimize weight with advanced latticing, topology optimization, and ribbing techniques to achieve structural requirements and improve performance.
Lightweighting workflows that actually work
Fragile CAD systems break under the demands of advanced lightweighting techniques additive manufacturing enables—lattice structures fail with every design change, variable-thickness shells require weeks of manual modeling, and outputs from topology optimization require complete remodeling.
nTop's implicit modeling approach generates robust lattice structures, spatially varying offsets, and optimized geometries in seconds while maintaining design integrity through unlimited parametric changes, enabling engineers to explore thousands of lightweighting variations in the time it used to take for just a few.
Advanced design approaches. Streamlined process.
Make parametric changes without rebuild failures
Implicit modeling enables fast and reliable design modifications through flexible, field-driven parameterizations that leverage modern GPU compute hardware for instant geometry updates.
Analyze designs without meshing bottlenecks
Run topology optimization and structural analysis directly on implicit geometry, eliminating mesh generation delays and enabling real-time design feedback during optimization.
Automate workflows for rapid design optimization
Generate hundreds of lightweighted variants automatically using programmatic notebooks that encode design logic and optimization parameters—systematically exploring your design space.
Seamlessly transfer optimized models to manufacturing
Export optimized lightweight designs directly to build preparation software using implicit interoperability, ensuring seamless handoff to manufacturing without geometry translation losses or mesh repair steps.
Robust tools for rapid lightweighting
See how leading engineering teams are using nTop for lightweighting
Lighter components. Faster iterations. Better performance.
See how unbreakable modeling and rapid iteration eliminates manual modeling bottlenecks and accelerates requirements to design workflows.
Lightweighting resources
- GUIDE
The Engineering Guide to Lightweighting
- VIDEO
Creating a computational design workflow to lightweight drone panels with nTop’s new ribbing tools
- WEBINAR
Accelerating Product Engineering with Computational Design
- VIDEO
Five ways to lightweight in nTop in less than 5 minutes
- WEBINAR
Eliminate the FEA Meshing Bottleneck with nTop + Intact.Simulation
