Software

Researchers in the B-MECA lab, in collaboration with the Structural Biomechanics team at Imperial College London, have developed digitalis 3d to facilitate digital design of intricate lattice structures with controlled local and global properties. It supports smart and flexible automatic generation of 3d lattices with finely tuned local structural, mechanical and porosity properties. From built-in interactions with Abaqus to instantaneous porosity measures, digitalis provides a toolbox for evidence-based lattice optimisation with applications in bone tissue engineering and civil engineering. It is freely available as plugin to the commercial software Rhino3d, together with tutorial material and videos.