MSC Apex Generative Design’s capabilities allow the creation of different result structures depending on the defined parameters such as Sturt Density, Shape Quality and Complexity. Furthermore, the design can be changed by defining preserved Nondesign spaces.
This possibility gives the designer the chance to find leightweight designs capable of bearing the applied boundary conditions by reducing for example fixation points. This way totally new designs together ewith part consolidation takes place and in the software to inspire nrew solutions.
The software automatically figures out how many nondesign spaces - mainly for fixation points - can be reduced and how many need to stay. Naturally nondesign spaces wihtout any loads or fixations applied are reduced first by the stress-based optimization algorithm because no stresses occur in the surrounding area. Therefore, no material is needed. Of course there is a chance that these areas are being retained if they are exactly in the stress flow of the rest of the strutcure.
For this reduction to take place, the reduction possiblity is selected in the studies ta keep nondesign spaces. For nondesign spaces wihtout any bopundary fixation this selection is enough. For the possiblity of reducing fixation points, the constraint needs to be applied on several nondesign spaces and the selection needs to take ülace in the keep nondesign spaces option. The selection possibllities are graphically explained in the image below:
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