Glossary

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Design space: Space in which material may be or which may be change and redistributed during optimization

Detail: Edge length of the FEM elements at the highest resolution level

Displacement: Prescribed displacement, e.g. to map fixations

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Estimate: Estimation of target volume and stress in a few minutes/iterations

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Filigree: Designtype setting

Functional Surfaces: All surfaces that experience a force or fixation and/or represent connection points to other obejcts

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Load Case: Defined loads and fixations are combined into load cases

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Machining allowance: Allowance for post-processing steps of the optimization results on the functional surfaces

Manufacture: Optimization with very good printable surface quality

Massive: Designtype setting

Material: Each object is assigned a material with the material data Young's Modulus and Poisson's ratio

Material space: Union of the designspace and the nondesignspaces

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Nondesign space: Spaces, which must contain material and which are not changed during the optimization

Normal: Designtype setting

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Object: Geometry element, e.g. surface, volume etc.

Optimize: Execution of an optimization

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Symmetry: Calculation of symmetrical components around the coordinate origin

Startspace: Optimization starts with a specified object as the base object

Stress: Optimization target, maximum permitted stress

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Topology Optimization: Iterative process in which an optimum material distribution is achieved in the designspace under specified boundary conditions.

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Voidspace: Spaces in which no material is allowed

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