{"id":75907,"date":"2018-02-12T13:04:16","date_gmt":"2018-02-12T21:04:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/02\/this-ai-software-dreams-up-new-designs-for-3d-printed-parts-before-your-eyes"},"modified":"2018-02-12T13:04:16","modified_gmt":"2018-02-12T21:04:16","slug":"this-ai-software-dreams-up-new-designs-for-3d-printed-parts-before-your-eyes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/02\/this-ai-software-dreams-up-new-designs-for-3d-printed-parts-before-your-eyes","title":{"rendered":"This AI software dreams up new designs for 3D-printed parts before your eyes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/this-ai-software-dreams-up-new-designs-for-3d-printed-parts-before-your-eyes.gif\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Desktop Metal\u2019s new software lets regular people design objects optimized for 3D printing, no experience required.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The news: <\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/s\/604088\/the-3-D-printer-that-could-finally-change-manufacturing\/\">Desktop Metal<\/a>\u2019s new <a href=\"https:\/\/labs.desktopmetal.com\/liveparts\">LiveParts<\/a> is a piece of software that automatically generates designs of objects ready for 3D printing. Users just tell it the structural constraints of the object they\u2019re building, and it uses biology-inspired AI models to quickly generate a design suited to additive manufacturing.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Better components:<\/strong> The software ensures that parts take advantage of 3D printing\u2019s capabilities. \u201cThis would enable weight reductions between 25 and 60 percent of many kinds of general-purpose parts,\u201d says Desktop Metal CEO Ric Fulop, \u201cwhile spreading loads more evenly and improving fatigue resistance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/the-download\/610193\/this-ai-software-dreams-up-new-designs-for-3-d-printed-parts-before-your-eyes\/?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_content=2018-02-10&utm_campaign=Technology+Review\">https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/the-download\/610193\/this-ai...ogy+Review<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Desktop Metal\u2019s new software lets regular people design objects optimized for 3D printing, no experience required. The news: Desktop Metal\u2019s new LiveParts is a piece of software that automatically generates designs of objects ready for 3D printing. Users just tell it the structural constraints of the object they\u2019re building, and it uses biology-inspired AI models [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1489,3,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3d-printing","category-biological","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75907\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}