Hyperganic has unveiled HyDesign, its cloud-native design application for creating 3D-printed lattice structures and simplifying the overwhelming options available to designers.
HyDesign has been developed to address key challenges in 3D printed lattice design by intelligently reducing the complexity of lattice design options, looking to eliminate the need for expert designers and high-performance computing hardware.
With validated materials and meshless simulation (currently a beta feature) Hyperganic says that HyDesign will minimise expensive and time-consuming trial prints, making it less taxing to explore further cutting-edge uses of 3D printing for real world products.
The Ultrasim 3D Lattice Library by Forward AM is directly embedded into the software, giving users access to complex lattice structures in a matter of minutes. Hyperganic says that this new integration will replace the standalone version of the Ultrasim 3D Lattice Engine, further streamlining the design process within HyDesign.
“Developing products for 3D printing has traditionally been costly trial-and-error,” said Michael Robinson, managing director and CTO of Hyperganic. “HyDesign changes this by accelerating the design process with design flexibility, validated materials, and simulation, all in an app that takes minutes to learn.”
Forward AM’s Ultrasim 3D Lattice Library is built on decades of material science expertise and rigorous testing from BASF, which recently broke off from the chemicals giant as a standalone enterprise. The library provides optimal combinations of lattice designs, materials, and printers, tested and used across industries such as footwear, seating, and protection.
It currently includes printer-material pairings like Ultrasint TPU 01 for HP’s Multi-Jet Fusion (MJF5200) and TPU 88A for Farsoon’s HT252.
Forward AM CEO Martin Back, said, “The Ultrasim 3D Lattice Library represents a significant leap in designing for additive manufacturing. By combining our materials expertise with Hyperganic’s technology, we’re not just optimising products – we’re reshaping entire industries and accelerating innovation cycles across the board.”
While integrated into HyDesign, the library remains freely accessible on Forward AM’s website, offering detailed technical specifications for designers and engineers.
Since the Ultrasim 3D Lattice Engine has been further developed and replaced by HyDesign, Hyperganic says it is already working on additional improvements. These are to include upcoming features like thermal simulation, computational fluid dynamics simulation and parametric optimisation, with the company envisioning HyDesign as an easy-to-use, unified, design-simulate-optimise loop for product design.
