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• Machining Allowances should be applied to every functional surface. Adjacent Faces should be selected at once, to create one coherent Machining Allowancecontinuous geometry. Therefore, the automatic execution mode can be turned off.

• Tip: To have an easier access to the Non-Design Spaces choose the picking Filter “Cells” and hide the Design Space Cell so that only the Non-Design Spaces are visible. Simply choose a whole Non-Design Space by drawing a rectangle like shown in the picture below.

  

• Now your Assembly should look like this.

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In this case four forces and one moment are defined. The first two are applied on the retained volume and the last three on the Non-Design Space that is connected to the sensor:. Ensure to display the Design Space Solid to be able to apply Boundary Conditions.

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Three constraints are created and attached on the Non-Design Spaces on the lower side:

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Step 4: Definition of load cases

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• Manufacturing Method: Generic AM

• Failure Criteria: Von Mises

• Safety Factor: 27

• Select the Strut Density: Medium

• Select the Shape Quality: Balanced FineTune

• Set the Complexity Setting: 2425

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Don’t forget to save the project!

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• You can always change the Strut Density, Safety Factor and Complexityto influence the results and try out different options

• The Complexitycan be increased for a higher resolution and more detailed result (increased calculation time!)

• The Strut Densityinfluences the structures which are formed during optimisation

The whole MSC Apex Generative Design project with all results can be downloaded here: Coming Soon!

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