Software developer LimitState will launch Version 3.1 of its design optimization tool LimitState:FORM at the upcoming TCT Show 2017.

LimitState:FORM reduces the time and effort needed to design strong and light truss forms for components and structures. The new version includes a number of new features and enhancements including:

• The ability to specify in advance the desired simplicity of an optimized component form, e.g. the target maximum number of members meeting at a joint.

• Enhanced editing capability: new algorithms mean that users can more freely interact with an initially optimized component, adding and/or removing members to customize their design as necessary.

The software can reduce the time required to optimize components from hours or days to a matter of minutes. LimitState:FORM can be used as a plugin to ANSYS Discovery Live, a recently announced real-time simulation tool which allows engineers to immediately see the influence of CAD edits on stresses and/or flow dynamics.

“Designers wishing to take full advantage of the design freedom associated with additive manufacturing have been held back by software, but this is now changing,” says Matthew Gilbert, Managing Director at LimitState.

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