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Shape Generator is a new approach to designing lightweight, structurally efficient parts. Available in Inventor R2 - Subscription customers. Shape Generator provides an intelligent strategy for maximizing part stiffness based on the constraints you specify. The technology is integrated into Inventor making it convenient to incorporate in your design process. Shape Generator produces a 3D mesh that can be used to guide your design refinement. As a result, the best time to use it is in the early or conceptual design stages.
Try the Shape Generator - Conceptual Design guided tutorial to get started. The image above illustrates how smoothly Shape Generator can become part of the design process.
The first step is to create a build volume or approximation of the part model. The model should contain requisite contact points, such as the two pin locations, and the contact surface where force will be applied. With the build volume defined, you can specify preserve keep out zones the process will not modify these zones when creating the guide shape , and apply constraints and forces the part may encounter in use. With the design criteria specified, you run a Shape Generator Study and receive back a mesh in response to the criteria.
The mesh serves as a guide for making modifications to the build volume model. Your edits transform the model from an approximation into a design. Note: Shape Generator is not supported for assemblies or multi-body parts single parts which contain multiple bodies.
To Assign Materials With Shape Generator, material properties must be assigned to define the structural characteristics of your part. To Apply Constraints In Shape Generator, apply constraints to remove all free translational and rotational movement of the body. To Apply Loads Shape Generator uses applied loads to determine the resultant shape of the part. To Preserve a Region from Shape Generator You can preserve interface features so these are not changed during the design shape process.
To Generate a Shape Generate shapes based on loads, materials, and boundary conditions you specify. To Promote the Shape to the Part Save the reference shape for use in modeling environment or add it to the current part. Validation Problems This section provides a list of validation problems for Shape Generator. Whenever possible, it is important to compare Shape Generator with known or theoretical solutions to understand where it can be used reliably.
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