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With the Loads & Boundary Condition Tools all Boundary Conditions can be created which are required for the optimisation. It can be chosen between Displacement Constraints and Structural Loads (directly or remotely applied).

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The orientation of the constraints can be influenced directly during the creation process by adding angles to the global coordinate system. Alternatively, the constraints can refer to a prior defined Local Coordinate System.

Constraints can be applied on cells, surfaces, edges and points which automatically become a Non-Design Space. To apply a constraint to a cell, the cell has to be created beforehand. This can be done using the split tool or with a Boolean operation. What cells are, how they are created and defined is mentioned here.

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The orientation of the force or moment can be changed directly during the creation by adding angles to the global coordinate system. Alternatively, the force/moment can refer to a prior defined Local Coordinate System.

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Forces and moments can be directly or remotely applied.

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Pressure loads can be applied only on surfaces. It doesn’t matter if the surface is plane or not. The Pressure magnitude is the only value which is required. The chosen surface will automatically become a Nondesign space Non-Design Space. If a pressure load is applied on a surface, no other Boundary Conditions can be applied on the same or any overlapping surfaces.