MSC Apex Generative Design allows the user to create different result structures depending on the defined parameters such as Sturt Strut Density, Shape Quality and Complexity. Furthermore, the design can be changed by taking advantage of the capability to reduce unnecessary Nondesignspaces Nondesign spaces and fixation points. This gives the optimization more freedom and will create completely new designs. In some cases it even makes sense to consider part consolidation as another goal of the optimization.
The software automatically figures out how many nondesign spaces - mainly for fixation points - can be reduced and how many need to stay. Naturally, Nondesign spaces wihtout without any loads or fixations applied are reduced first by the stress-based optimization algorithm. No stresses occur in these and surrounding area and therefore no material is needed. Of course there is a chance that these areas are being retained if they are exactly in the stress flow of the rest of the strutcure.
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