The tech challenge saw five companies perform live demonstrations of their sensor technologies on ASTRO America’s industrial-scale metal 3D printers, before presenting their findings to an expert panel of evaluators.
The MOD is working with research partner Plexal, alongside UK Government and the wider CNI industry, to learn how software providers are enabling secure file storage, sharing and handling for safety-critical applications.
The two-year contract will see Kraetonics’ flagship OmniSlice software used to enable the fast design and 3D printing of structures containing the advanced FSS technology, which the company says can be delivered “in a matter of hours.”
The new tool will be be integrated into CF3D Studio and, the partners hope, enable the prediction of material properties and performance before physical testing begins.
The patent describes how the company’s AI utilises a digital twin and one or more transformer-based large language models to convert manual test cases into automated scripts.
Alexander Oster, Technical Director at 3MF Consortium described the news as “another important milestone in our journey to build a professional software ecosystem for additive manufacturing."
Top Definition, available via an over-the-air software release, will allow users to directly print features as thin as 0.2mm, while 'dramatically improving' the as-printed strength of small features previously too fragile to print.