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To support the creation of the initial Bounding Box Design Space the second method of the Design Space Tool is introduced as well as the two Geometry Tools Access & Clearance Region Tool. The Bounding Box method creates the initial Design Space from the original parts that are to be consolidated. Next the Non-Design Spaces are created on the original parts. The two other tools create the necessary void spaces for the Excluded and Retained Volumes.
The Access Region Tool is responsible for creating placeholders for void spaces which are necessary for installation and maintenance reasons. Further Information here.
The Clearance Region Tool is responsible for creating void spaces around parts which are part of the assembly but are not part of the optimisation model. Further information here.
If you want to include another material for your Retained Volumes, please assign the material to the respective parts before continuing.
After these geometry tools have been used, Machining Allowances are created on all functional surfaces. This step concludes the geometry preparation and the new Generative Design Configuration Tools comes into action. This tool helps the user to go through the different geometries needed or considered for the optimisation and concludes in a final Design Space. In the background Boolean operations are performed to consider all the selected geometries and create this final Design Space.
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