Case Study: Specter Aerospace accelerates hypersonic vehicle design with nTop

Specter Aerospace builds a hypersonic vehicle model in 3 days with nTopology

Specter Aerospace, an aerospace and defense company, faced a critical bottleneck in developing hypersonic vehicles. Their traditional CAD tools were too slow and fragile, causing geometry models to break with every design change and making it impossible to explore the design space efficiently. This slowed down both concept exploration and detailed component design, putting them at a competitive disadvantage.

The solution was implemented using nTop. In a 3-day workshop, nTopology helped Specter build a robust, parametric model of a hypersonic vehicle that updated in real-time without breaking. This allowed Specter to accelerate their design process dramatically, reducing the time to create a parametric model from 3 weeks to just 2 days and enabling them to create and analyze 8 design variants in 5 days. For a detailed combustor component, nTop reduced iteration time from over a day to just 20 minutes, compressing their design cycle by 10x.

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