Problem: Demonstrate practical use cases for additive manufacturing in industry settings

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Objective: Introduce additive manufacturing design optimization to a traditional replacement hip design to demonstrate possible material and cost savings without sacrificing structural integrity.

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Solutions: I started by recreating a standard hip implant in SolidWorks, then I designed the unit cell of a cross-pattern lattice structure that would replace the main body of the implant. I then repeated the cell into a pattern that was large enough to replace the solid volume of the implant's body, and using an EOS SLS 3D printer I printed scaled models of the optimized hip implant.

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