Aerospace engineering software

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




When requirements are strict, leverage nTop’s advanced capabilities to create more efficient parts with the performance you need.
Aerospace and defense applications

Structural lightweighting
Make your aerospace parts lighter and more efficient with an extensive set of design tools like topology optimization, lattice and gyroid structures, perforation patterns, variable shelling, and isogrid ribs.

Part consolidation

Topology optimization

Lattice infills

Variable shelling
Architected materials
Tailor your part’s mechanical, thermal, or electromagnetic characteristics through complex geometries that could only be manufactured with 3D printing.

Tailored material properties

High stiffness sandwich structures

Multifunctional design
Rapid design exploration
Quickly generate, iterate, and optimize intricate designs that would be impossible with traditional CAD software.

Conceptual design phase iterations

Heat exchanger design and optimization

Performance-driven design
Advanced manufacturing
Improve the efficiency of additive manufacturing operations with nTop’s capabilities, from Implicit Interop to automated design for fixturing and tooling.

Automated composite design

Support structures

Slicing

Jig and fixture design automation

Lighter combustion engine cylinder for drone created with Field-Driven Design and conformal latticing
Cobra Aero used nTop to redesign the air-cooled cylinder of their UAV drone engines for additive manufacturing. Using conformal lattice structures, they developed an engine cylinder that is manufacturable in one piece and weighs only 420 grams.
Ready for the next step?
See for yourself why leading companies in the aerospace, automotive, medical, and consumer industries have chosen nTop as their engineering design software solution.
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