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Guest article Metal AM

LEAP 71: Why engineering must move beyond CAD to realise the promise of AI and Additive Manufacturing

26 Jun 2025

While AI is accelerating innovation across industries, engineering design remains slow, manual and opaque, constrained by tools such as CAD that capture geometry but not intent.

Reading time: 20 minutes

Image: Metal AM
Image: Metal AM

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In this article, LEAP 71 co-founder Lin Kayser argues that to realise the full potential of Additive Manufacturing, and enable meaningful AI in hardware development, we have to rethink how machines are designed. His solution is Computational Engineering, a system that encodes physics, constraints, and logic directly into code, transforming engineering into a scalable, intelligent process.

Read this article here: https://bit.ly/3TKoY84

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