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Import/create the Design Space including the Interfaces (Non-Design Spaces) in MSC Apex Generative Design as one solid. For this Bookshelf the already prepared Design Space was imported.
Open the Design Space Tool in the Optimization Tools to select the imported Geometry as the Design Space. You can delete the empty part “Bookshelf” because it is no longer needed.
Create the material in the Materials editor and assign it to the Design Space. In this case the material behaviour is Isotropic.
The specific values needed are the Young's Modulus (192372 MPa), Poisson ratio (0.3) and Density (7.97e-6 kg/mm3).
The Tension Strength is the maximum allowable stress for the material and is set to 320 MPa.
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Interfaces have to be created for every functional surface - so every surface where a boundary condition is applied to. With this Tool an offset to the inside with the input “ Non“Non-Design Space Thickness” and an offset to the outside with the input “Machining Allowance” is created. The Offset Distance is expanding the Interface to the set value to create material on front faces.
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Inside the Post Processing the von Mises stress and the displacements are visible for all iterations and for every Event
The Scale can be influenced individually
The mass of each iteration can be visualized with a diagram
You can go back to the model setup by clicking the Exit button in the right bottom corner.
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The optimisations below show the influence of the Strut Density when nothing else is changed.
Strut Density: Medium
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Strut Density: Dense
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Strut Density: Sparse
The whole MSC Apex Generative Design project with all results can be downloaded here:
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