Is it possible to use thickness data from free size optimisation in OSSmooth to obtain the optimised geometry?

Daniel Tomlinson
Daniel Tomlinson Altair Community Member
edited December 2023 in Community Q&A

I have been exploring the free size optimisation tool for thin-walled structures for a development that is using additive manufacturing as the method of manufacture. Is it possible to extract the element thickness data from the optimisation results and then map them to geometry either in Step or STL format for further processing? Has anyone got a suggestion outside of the Altair product stack if it's not currently possible within? Currently, I only see a manual method of generating CAD using the result as a template.

I've attached an example result for clarity.

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  • loistf
    loistf Altair Community Member
    edited December 2023

    You can get the optimized thickness with the OUTPUT card. Then you can import that data into HM, thicken your shell elements to get 3d elements with HM. Then you can extract faces out of the 3d elements and to finish things up you can export as stl or even generate surfaces from 2d elements. 

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