AI-Design Optimization for Additive & Subtractive Manufacturing for Aerospace Components

The aerospace industry faces mounting pressure to reduce weight, accelerate development cycles, and increased manufacturability. This session explores how generative engineering is transforming component manufacturing by seamlessly integrating additive and subtractive processes from concept to production.
Infinitorm's generative engineering platform will demonstrate how AI-driven optimization is being applied to aerospace components, achieving weight reductions of 40-60% while improving structural performance as well as manufacturability. Attendees will discover how the platform considers multiple manufacturing constraints simultaneously, machine setups, milling directions, post-machining requirements, and material properties to generate designs that are both manufacturable and optimized for modern manufacturing workflows.
Infinitform's native CAD add-ins enable seamless integration into existing engineering workflows, allowing designers to push requirements directly from their CAD environment and pull back fully parametric models complete with design history and fully constrained sketches—eliminating the need for manual reconstruction and enabling continued iteration within familiar tools.
The presentation will showcase real-world applications of an aerospace structural bracket, highlighting how the combination of topology optimization and intelligent manufacturing path planning reduces lead times by up to 50% compared to traditional design-to-production cycles.
Key topics include: Generative engineering approaches that account for both additive and subtractive manufacturing constraints, native CAD add-in integration with bidirectional push/pull workflows and parametric model preservation, automated design-for-manufacturability analysis for modern production workflows, integration of performance simulation, cost modeling, and manufacturing feasibility within the generative engineering platform

Participants will leave with practical insights into implementing generative engineering within existing aerospace workflows, understanding both the technical capabilities and ROI implications of this transformative approach to next-generation component development.