In additive manufacturing technologies, products are built up layer by layer, giving designers a great deal of designing options. When designing models with the goal of reducing weight or improving the functional properties of products, generative design is increasingly being used. In the present work, with the goal of reducing the weight and number of components, a car door hinge was generatively designed and fabricated by selective laser melting. In the introduction, an overview of the theoretical basis of selective laser melting and generative design is given. The generative design process in the Fusion 360 software tool is presented. The fabricated part was evaluated and tested on a car. Generative design enabled reducing the weight of the car door hinge from 639 g to 91 g and reducing the number of components from six to two.
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