The way everyday items - from chairs to cars to power tools - are made is being reimagined through a new process called generative design. Using artificial intelligence (AI) software and the compute ...

Generative design is seen as the latest tool to gain market share. However, adopting it is not as it seems. Here are tips on applying generative technology. Generative design is a means of ...

Dassault Systèmes has sponsored this post. Product designers are faced with faster design cycles and more demanding design requirements. Their designs have to be lighter, cheaper, better looking and ...

It’s one challenge to design intricate mechanical equipment for Earth. It’s another thing entirely to shoot it into space. That’s why Autodesk’s new concept for a space lander, designed for NASA’s Jet ...

Every vendor of generative design software knows Andreas Vlahinos. If they don’t, they should. Vlahinos, a bear of a man, is perhaps the foremost authority on the use of generative design. As a ...

Generative design has progressed from the early days in the 1980s when the process required someone with a PhD in finite elements. Now, generative design can produce infinite varieties of product ...

Innovation is transformative. It’s why we ride in a Mustang instead of on a mustang. Centuries of knowledge now fit in the palm of our hand. Products move from reliable to revolutionary. Yet ideas ...

The spotlight on generative AI has gotten brighter than ever in recent months, and it’s sparking both excitement and fear among designers because of what it means for the future of creativity.

Humans are capable of great things when it comes to design. But nature, many would agree, is the greatest designer of all. Evolution has, over billions of years, perfected the animal and plant species ...

New production materials and methods have begun to revolutionize how we make things. If we look at individual manufacturing innovations in areas like the use of carbon fiber in passenger aircraft, ...

There are few things that can keep a certain kind of mechanically-inclined mind entranced as well as a marble run, and few structures that look as interestingly organic as procedurally-generated ...