The Advanced User Settings give the possibility to (re-)start an optimisation with a Start Space. With this option already optimised results can be modified, e.g. struts can be added oder removed, and this new geometry can be used as the starting point of the optimisation. With this two stage optimisation already optimised geometries can be highly influenced and steered in the desired direction.
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The optimisation starts now with the modified geometry at the first iteration. At the end of the optimisation the strut is integrated completely into the design. Because the new strut is now loaded with stresses other areas of the geometry are less loaded. The optimisation reduces the material accordingly at these areas, thus in most cases the new, modified design is as lightweigt as the previous one.
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Step 6: Additional options Isn’t Working!
When a Start Space is used as in this Tutorial, the Start Space is only the starting point of the optimisation an the shape can be further modified by reducing and adding material.
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