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Today, assisted design software offers more capacity and iterations, and its methodology optimally solves geometries with enough rigidity and weight, keeping their specific characteristics desirable for some design objectives, and thus achieving originality, affordable functionality and reproducibility through manufacturing systems such as three-dimensional manufacturing. For this reason, the present study uses a computerized generative design method to optimize the main components of a cranial distraction system aiming to perform a geometric optimization of the original components and preserving the actual mechanical performance in spite of reducing the weight of the distractor components. By the use of commercial software packages such as PTC Creo Parametric©, PTC Creo Simulate©, Frustum©, Autodesk fusion 360°©, and Solid edge©, several generative proposals were evaluated. These evaluations were performed under load and boundary in order to preserve the cranial distractor function and optimize the amount of material used by the additive manufacture technique. |
