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Defining the cutting edge for all types of products

Take your parts to the next level – whether you’re designing a critical aerospace assembly or a sneaker that will fly off the shelves

Aerospace and defense

Develop lighter, better-performing, more innovative parts that take full advantage of additive manufacturing.

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Automotive

Get high-performance, additively manufactured parts on cars and stay ahead of the competition.

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Medical devices

Transform the standard of care by minimizing design time, automating validated workflows, and improving ergonomics.

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Consumer products

Get to market fast with head-turning 3D-printed products and define the cutting edge without the tedious manual work.

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Leading engineers across the world are discovering the power of nTop

For Fortune 100 companies, scrappy startups, and everyone in between.


Software built on transformative technology

Implicit Modeling

Design technology that will not break.

Remove design limitations and overcome fundamental challenges with our unique modeling engine.

Field-Driven Design

Your data goes in; optimized designs come out.

Feed your design workflows with real-world data, physics, and logic to harness the power of implicit modeling.

Design Process Automation

Build processes, not just parts.

Create reusable workflows and algorithmic processes that save you time and empower your team to scale.

Easy in. Easy out.

Seamlessly import and export data within your existing workflows.

Import

Upload CAD files and other engineering data.

CAD
STEP (.step), Parasolid (.x_t and .x_b), CATIA (.CATPart, CATProduct), Solidworks (.sldprt, .sldasm), Creo (.prt, .asm), NX (.prt), Inventor (.ipt, .iam), ACIS (.sat,.sab)

Mesh
STL (.stl), OBJ (.obj), Polygon File Format (.ply), 3D Manufacturing Format (.3mf)

CAE
Abaqus(*.inp), ANSYS (.cdb, .msh, .rst, .rth, .cas, .dat), LS-DYNA (.k) NASTRAN (.bdf, .op2), Patran(.pat), CGNS, (.cgns), Universal File Format (.unv), Topology Optimization Result (.op2)

Slice
Common Layer Interface (.cli)

Other
Bitmap (.png), Point Data (.csv), Vector and Scalar Point Maps (.csv), Voxel Grid (.vdb)

Generate

Create high-performance geometries.

Lattice Structures
Volume and surface lattices. Graph, TPMS, and custom unit cells. Stochastic structures. Rib grids.

Topology Optimization
Multi-objective and multi-constrain optimization. Automated post-processing.

Advanced Modeling
Variable shelling and offsets. Fillets and smoothening. Boolean operations.

Design Analysis
Built-in structural and thermal FEA. Import, conversion, and exchange utilities.

Build Preparation
Part orientation. Support structure generation.

Export

Convert to the format you need.

CAD
STEP (.step), Parasolid (.x_t and .x_b), IGES (.iges)

Mesh
STL (.stl), OBJ (.obj), Polygon File Format (.ply), 3D Manufacturing Format (.3mf)

CAE
Abaqus (.inp), ANSYS (.cdb), Nastran (.bdf), LS-Dyna (.k), Universal (.unv), Patran (.pat), Fluent (.msh)

Slice
Common Layer Interface (.cli), Common Layer File (.clf), Renishaw Point Data (.csv), Renishaw CLI (.cli), Arcam ABF (.abf), Stratasys Layer (.ssl), EOS CLI (.cli), BW image stacks (.png), 3D Systems (.slc), ConceptLaser Slice v4 (.cls)

Other
nTop Implicit File (.implicit), Point Data (.csv), Vector and Scalar Point Maps (.csv), Voxel Grid (.vdb)

Integrate

Integrate with your existing software stack.

nTop Automate
Using nTop Automate, you can write custom code to execute nTop workflows through a programmatic environment.

PLM
Leverage reference integrations and the nTop PLM connector to integrate nTop into your system.

MDO
Integrate with popular multidisciplinary design optimization platforms, including ModeFrontier, ModelCenter, and ProcesComposer.

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