What's new in 2024.1

Here are the key highlights of our 2024.1 release:

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• Mission Switch
  A direct switch between Apex Generative Design and Apex Structures to further enhance and ease the process of result validation with a comprehensive FE simulation without export/ import of data and without switching the software

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• Casting (Advanced User Settings)
  Relevant manufacturing constraints for casting are now implemented, allowing to create optimized, castable designs with a highly automated workflow.

• Mass Target (Advanced User Settings)
  This feature allows users to define a specific mass goal for their optimized designs, suitable for scenarios with specific weight limitations or objectives related to material usage.

• RBE2 / RBE3 (Advanced User Settings)
  These features facilitate constraint coupling and load distribution in structural models, enabling users to accurately simulate and optimize designs under various operational conditions.

• Rotational Freedom for fixations (Advanced User Settings)
  This new functionality allows certain fixations to rotate freely. This addition enhances simulation accuracy in scenarios where specific components need rotational mobility.

• Maximum thickness (Experimental Function)
  With this feature the user can set a value for the maximum size of generated structures to avoid too big material accumulation and achieve better manufacturability. Currently, this is only a tech demo and available via the Advanced User Settings

Bug fixes  /  Improvements:

• Soft symmetry enhancements (stability, clarity, robustness)

• Performance improvements for min/max thickness

• Improvement surface generation / smoothing generally

• Improvement surface generation for automated intersection robustness

• Display of the displacement result corrected

• Several performance improvements for various algorithms