MSC Apex Generative Design’s capabilities allow the creation of 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 defining preserved Nondesign spaces. This possibility gives the designer the chance to find leightweight designs capable of bearing the applied boundary conditions by reducing for example fixation points. This way totally new designs together ewith part consolidation takes place and in the software to inspire nrew solutionstaking advantage of the capability to reduce unnecessary Non-Design Spaces and fixation points. This gives the optimisation more freedom and will create completely new designs. In some cases it even makes sense to consider part consolidation as another goal of the optimisation.
The software automatically figures out how many nondesign spaces Non-Design Spaces - mainly for fixation points - can be reduced and how many need to stay. Naturally nondesign spaces wihtout , Non-Design Spaces without any loads or fixations applied are reduced first by the stress-based optimization optimisation algorithm because no . No stresses occur in these and the surrounding area . Therefore, 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 strutcurestructure.
For this reduction to be possible and take place, the reduction possiblity is selected in the studies ta keep nondesign spaces. For nondesign spaces wihtout any bopundary fixation this selection is enough. For the possiblity of reducing fixation points, the constraint needs to be applied on several nondesign spaces and the selection needs to take ülace in the keep nondesign spaces option. The selection possibllities are graphically explained in the image below: the definition of constraints needs to be applied as follows:
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As you can see in the image, all Non-Design Spaces which are fixations need to be collected in one constraint. You can also include several in more than one constraint - then one fixation will always be retained by the algorithm. The function Keep Non-Design Spaces needs to deactivated for the Non-Design Spaces as well as the constraints to allow such a reduction. For Non-Design Spaces without any boundary conditions this selection is enough. Per default the function Keep Non-Design Spaces is always activated.
To make sure all the Non-Design Spaces and fixation points are included in the result, the function Keep Non-Design Spaces can be activated.
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