How to seperate design and non-design space for a single solid ?

Altair Forum User
Altair Forum User
Altair Employee
edited October 2020 in Community Q&A

I want to know how I can sepaerate design and non design space .I am having a single solid component and out of that single solid there are few areas that need not to be considered for optimization ,kindly tell me how to proceed for the optimization process.The geometry on which i am working on is a bit complex .The overall goal is to reduce mass of the component.

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  • Altair Forum User
    Altair Forum User
    Altair Employee
    edited May 2012

    Hi,

    you may want to subdivide your geometry so that you have a component for your design space and a component for your non-design space. These two components should reference 2 different properties. The 'non-design property' (and thus all elements with this property) can then be used as your Design variable.

    (Also check tutorial OS-2010: Design Concept for an Automotive Control Arm, Step 7)

    Regards,

  • Altair Forum User
    Altair Forum User
    Altair Employee
    edited May 2012

    Hi,

    you may want to subdivide your geometry so that you have a component for your design space and a component for your non-design space. These two components should reference 2 different properties. The 'non-design property' (and thus all elements with this property) can then be used as your Design variable.

    (Also check tutorial OS-2010: Design Concept for an Automotive Control Arm, Step 7)

    Regards,

    kindly read the same post under optistruct folder image/emoticons/default_smile.png' alt=':)' srcset='/emoticons/smile@2x.png 2x' width='20' height='20'>
  • Altair Forum User
    Altair Forum User
    Altair Employee
    edited May 2012

    Hi,

    you may want to subdivide your geometry so that you have a component for your design space and a component for your non-design space. These two components should reference 2 different properties. The 'non-design property' (and thus all elements with this property) can then be used as your Design variable.

    (Also check tutorial OS-2010: Design Concept for an Automotive Control Arm, Step 7)

    Regards,

    kindly read the same post under optistruct folder image/emoticons/default_smile.png' alt=':)' srcset='/emoticons/smile@2x.png 2x' width='20' height='20'>
  • Altair Forum User
    Altair Forum User
    Altair Employee
    edited May 2012

    Hi,

    you may want to subdivide your geometry so that you have a component for your design space and a component for your non-design space. These two components should reference 2 different properties. The 'non-design property' (and thus all elements with this property) can then be used as your Design variable.

    (Also check tutorial OS-2010: Design Concept for an Automotive Control Arm, Step 7)

    Regards,

    kindly read the same post under optistruct folder image/emoticons/default_smile.png' alt=':)' srcset='/emoticons/smile@2x.png 2x' width='20' height='20'>

    Thanks for your reply but i got stuck with dividing the solid ,i tried using solid edit function but it doesnt seems to work then i meshed the comple solid using solid mesh and tried seperating the elements but i am still not satisfied by the component as the mesh after separating is not that clean,kindly tell me some other trick or tip to proceed further

    Thanks & Regards image/emoticons/default_smile.png' alt=':)' srcset='/emoticons/smile@2x.png 2x' width='20' height='20'>

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