Future of lighting: generative design and advanced configurability enabled by additive manufacturing

Christopher Sorensen; Dominic Large

doi:10.1117/12.2676792

29 September 2023 Future of lighting: generative design and advanced configurability enabled by additive manufacturing

Christopher Sorensen, Dominic Large

Proceedings Volume 12670, 3D Printing for Lighting; 1267002 (2023) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2676792
Event: SPIE Optical Engineering + Applications, 2023, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

Merging developments in generative design, advanced configurability, and additive manufacturing technologies creates an opportunity to rapidly generate, visualize, and evaluate parametrically configured luminaire solutions. There is also the opportunity to be significantly more environmentally sustainable than conventional manufacturing while shortening product development timelines. Lighting designers spend a significant amount of time preparing designs for visual evaluation using a variety of software tools and CAD models to present options to a client and to the lighting manufacturer for approval. Generative design can create designs with user-controlled parameters to rapidly visualize a design tailored to a specific application. Error checking with the actual CAD can eliminate the need for manufacturer approval effectively making a “custom” solution standard. The generative design component is also seeded with randomness to generate designs that would never have otherwise been considered. This design tool has been developed and beta tested with select lighting designers to determine the next steps for optimizing workflows.

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Christopher Sorensen and Dominic Large "Future of lighting: generative design and advanced configurability enabled by additive manufacturing", Proc. SPIE 12670, 3D Printing for Lighting, 1267002 (29 September 2023); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2676792

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