Solid Thinking is an amazing software that takes your engineered solids and models (in various formats) and optimizes them the same way as if nature had built it (with material only responding to anchors and direct force. You need to see their video, its quite amazing the forms it generates and how designers apply those forms to their products. We’ve posted very similar techniques with the Mercedes Benz Car Chasis post.
Watch their demo video here:
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAIA151I-N0&w=560&h=315]
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