I'm trying to do a topology optimisation for a part.
I have a design space that I want the part to be designed within and I have a few areas that I require material and a few other objects that need to be avoided.
I know how to ensure that there is material in the required areas however I'm struggling with avoiding the objects within the design space.
I initially tired to subtract these components from the design space in my CAD software however this produced a design space that wouldn't mesh. Instead I tried manually removing the areas that I didn't want material with more simple shapes however this resulted in an undesirable result as the solution would always push up against the boundary of the design space. This means that the choices that I made directly impacted the output which I didn't want.
Is there a way that I could just define a bounding box and tell the simulation to avoid all the parts within?