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Special Session: AI Methods for Engineering Design + Digital Transformation in Product Development: Emerging Technologies Between Engineering & Design Location: B8.1.2 Session Chair: Prof. MARINA CARULLI, Politecnico di Milano Session Chair: Dr. EMANUELE GUARDIANI, University of L'Aquila | |
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Designing Digital Tools to shape the Material, the Product, the Process: a custom CAD Approach to scaling knitted Metamaterials 1: Design Department, Politecnico di Milano, Italy; 2: Faculty of Engineering, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Bozen-Bolzano, Italy Textile metamaterials are fabrics whose mechanical or informational properties derive from how their structure is arranged in space rather than from the fibre alone. Knitting is a scalable option: an additive manufacturing technique that programs properties locally and already has industrial adoption. What blocks this passage is the design workflow: conventional knitwear CAD treats the step from design intent to manufactured object as a technical translation, limiting designers’ control over performance, manufacturability, and iteration. The paper reports a practice-based case study from the knitdesign.polimi research group at Politecnico di Milano, asking how a custom digital environment can reconnect image, structure, machine logic, and garment construction within an integrated product-development process. Developed through AI-assisted coding and tested on an adversarial knitted textile, the redesign frames software as part of the material and product design space. Prototyping a knit-to-shape garment shows how adaptive, designer-led CAD can support industrial scaling of textile metamaterials and reconfigure collaboration between design, engineering, and technical expertise. | |