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This is where Generative Design kicks in. One of “the 7 habits of highly effective generative design” (see our White paper: https://pageswww.mscsoftware.com/MSC-Apex-Generative-Design-Whitepaper.html ) is “Design for usability”, which exactly refers to a smart, lean and fast process of generating optimal designs with low effort. The above graphic shows how the long and exhausting process in existing FE-Software is replaced by a much shorter and highly automated process of MSC Apex Generative Design.
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Therefore, Generative Design is never a straight line from setting up a model and taking the outcome. It is more a creative process where variety is a key for successful designs. You can think about a funnel where hundreds (or software internally even thousands!) of different designs are thrown in and then thinned out by the optimisation goals such as stress, weight, design or manufacturing constraints. In the future our solution will be developed further and combined with other solutions from the MSC portfolio such as Simufact Additive, Digimat AM and MSC Nastran to go through all of these decisions with a completely automated workflow.
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