Design Space

New Features

  • New dedicated Design Space environment to prepare, create, and edit design spaces for topology optimization. The Create, +/-, and Connect Voxel contexts have been moved from the Mesh to the Design Space ribbon.
  • New local design space context has been added. With minimal preparation, it can create a design space contained within a user-defined volume. An example would be structural inserts/baffles within an automotive BIW:


    Figure 1.
  • New RBE3 connect context. Connects design space to structure via RBE3s.
  • Added new options to control voxel creation via the options menu:
    • Intersections and voids
    • Voids only
    • Intersections only
  • New shortcuts to tools that help with the package management preparation for design space creation:
    • Hole/Gap fill
    • Shrink Wrap
  • Added shortcut to the contact browser so that TIE contact can be created manually.

    TIE contact is automatically created in the local design space context.