A light-weight 3D printed chair has been unveiled as a proof of idea that demonstrates the alternatives for digital twins, generative design and additive manufacturing in difficult conventional design strategies.
‘Ta.Tamu’, a four-year collaboration between Dassault Systèmes and French designer Patrick Jouin, was created utilizing Dassault’s 3DEXPERIENCE platform, impressed by biomimicry and the structural logic of the human physique. The chair adopts a lattice construction which minimises materials utilization, weighing simply 3.9 kg, and may be printed in a flat, folded place with out additional meeting.
“Nature makes use of solely the vitality and supplies it wants. We needed to use this quite simple philosophy to the event of Ta.Tamu. With the assistance of latest collaborative applied sciences of Dassault Systèmes, we are actually capable of provide you with new concepts and make them potential, creating extra effectively whereas producing much less waste, proper from the design course of,” stated Jouin.
The design was created utilizing an AI-powered digital twin which allowed design groups to simulate the behaviour of advanced assembled elements in actual time, whereas topological optimisation was used to refine each joint, unfolding articulation, and zone of stress and assist, balanced with aesthetics. The chair is absolutely purposeful and weighs 75% lower than at full density and may assist a weight of 100 kg.
Anne Asensio, Vice President Design Expertise, Dassault Systèmes, commented: “To enhance the world we stay in, we’ve got to alter the best way we produce, design and use supplies. Ta.Tamu represents a name to motion for trade to embrace a generative economic system as a substitute of continuous to create with out limits.”
