EVENTS 2024
APR 29 Release of sphereneRHINO RC1 (Release Candidate 1)
MAY spherene™ commercial release
MAY 07-08 CDFAM Berlin 2024
MAY 14-17 OT-WORLD Leipzig
SEPT 23-24 Footprint 3D 2024 Barcelona
NOV 19-22 Formnext Frankfurt 2024
Steel Parts as Light as Aluminium?
spherene™metamaterial is revolutionizing design and manufacturing. It mimics bulk material properties, drastically cutting design time.
Create spherene metamaterial through our API or integrate it seamlessly into your existing CAD workflow.
FEMUR DEMONSTRATOR. Printed on Rapidia Conflux 1 using 316L stainless steel paste. Photos and 3D print: Rapidia
Super Geometry
Industry's only isotropic minimal surface, versatile and inherently resilient. spherene's Adaptive Density Minimal Surfaces (ADMS) are printable on any 3D printer in any material.
Spherene™: Design for Manufacturing Redefined
SPHERENE ADVANTAGES
- Industry’s only surface conformal minimal surface
- Optimal stress distribution due to true isotropy
- Adapts to any shape
- Behaves like bulk material
EFFICIENT MANUFACTURING
- Minimized need of build supports
- Improved thermal dissipation
- Saves costs & time
- For all materials & printing methods
POWERFUL DESIGN TOOLS
- Fast & user-friendly design tools
- Adjust density, thickness, bias
- Customize with cavities & closures
- Autonomous shape generation
Design Intent First:
Best in Class Intuitive Workflow, Integrated in Rhino3D
Achieve your design goals with easy-to-use field controls and modifiers; combine at your heart's wish. spherene's design tools are streamlined for design intent, allowing fast iteration cycles and drastically reducing engineering time.
Don't waste your time creating formulas, Gyroids and Boolean operations; spherene does everything for you, autonomously. Well, almost everything. You still have to know what you want.
Simplified Complexity:
spherene Parameter Driven Design Tools
Spherene Insights
Articles & Interviews:
- CDFAM Berlin: Interview with Christian Waldvogel
- 2024 March/April Edition of 3D ADEPT Mag: spherene metamaterial
- Additive Manufacturing Media: Spherene Creates Metamaterial with Geometry Derived from Spheres
- University of Zurich: Three-Dimensional Printed Hydroxyapatite Bone Substitutes Designed by a Novel Periodic Minimal Surface Algorithm Are Highly Osteoconductive (PDF)
- ESA OSIP: Satellite Bracket (PDF)
What Our Early Adopters Have to Say About Their Experience
«Minimal Surfaces are great, but when you are able to adapt density and thickness in design, it turns out an amazing lattice tool for footwear creation.»
René Medel, framas Kunststofftechnik GmbH
«...clearly addressing one of the cross-cutting themes of the ESA technology strategy, but in a novel way.»
Moritz Fontaine, European Space Agency ESA
«Having explored a few Rhino/ Grasshopper plugins for minimal surface generation, spherene distinctly stands out. It has a straightforward interface, paired with spherene's concise tutorials and cloud integration, ensuring rapid iterations of our design studies.»
Slicelab
«This is fun, I was getting tired of making my own gyroids by hand every time.»
Beta Tester @isowix on Discord
Expert Services for Every Challenge
spherene Ltd. offers various services, ensuring you leverage spherene's full potential. We have you covered, from initial integration to customized enhancements and comprehensive training.
Workflow Integration
We help you seamlessly blending spherene in your CAD workflow.
Customized Solutions
Feature developments to meet your specific project requirements.
On-Site Solutions
Designed for your utmost confidentiality and efficiency needs.
Training
Onsite and remote training sessions.
Supportive Partnership
Continuous, dedicated support ensuring a smooth, collaborative journey from start to finish.
Contact us today to explore how our expert services can elevate your projects and streamline your workflow. We're here to support your next leap in innovation.
Food4Rhino Webinar: spherene metamaterial
For an interesting insight, watch the McNeel Europe & Food4Rhino Webinar: "Spherene Metamaterial" of April 26th 2024
Replay Webinar: Spherene for Footwear
Replay the Footwearology webinar: "minimal material, optimal performance"
3D scanned bike saddle converted to a SUBD mesh as design base for creating boundary geometry to grow on to. Application of density points to control the ADMS density.
Controling variable wall thickness by simply placing points in your 3D scene.
Use standard Rhino tools creating complicated density, thickness and surface bias fields. In this example artistically recreate a femur.
Cavity field points allow for very easy and fun placement of cavities in and on your geometry. Control the radius and combine multiple field points for more complex outcomes.
Apply simple points and geometry to control complex Spherene behaviour. In this example we make use of grasshopper for Rhino3D to generate a density field from a baropodometry image, downloaded from wikipedia.
Use field points to control thickness asymmetry and surface bias. Thickness asymmetry allows shifting the solid surface towards a volume. Surface bias allows shifting the single surface (Ideal minimal surface) towards a volume.
Demonstration on how to achieve similar results of an engineered, simulated and additively manufactured aluminium satellite bracket..
Using modifier geometry for precise control of the visible open structure.
Printable Samples
Print spherene samples suitable for all 3D printing techniques (FDM/SLA/SLS/SLM), compatible with a variety of materials such as filament, resin, metal, and ceramics.
Eliminate the need for extra support structures. Experience the advantages of spherene firsthand.
