SolidThinking Inspire 2016 changes this by including SubD-like modelling tools that have been adapted to enable better looking products to be built by allowing you to quickly snap sections, refine them and generate smooth features from FEA-like mesh. You then need to do a full redesign using your traditional tools. The result is that topology optimisation is often pitched as a means of gaining inspiration for your next design variation based on analysis and optimisation (hence the name of this product, I suspect). The biggest issue with many topology optimisation tools is that the end result is a CAE-derived mesh - which, if you’ve used such tools, isn’t exactly aesthetically pleasing or easy to manufacture. In the Inspire environment, these tools have been built into a new set of operations called “Shape” and the reason you use them is fascinating - so let’s explore.
The overall idea is that you use control cages to generate smooth organic shapes (much like sub division or SubD modelling techniques now in many systems), but as soon as you stop editing that cage, the system generates NURBS surfaces rather than requiring some form of conversion. This technology comes directly from solidThinking Evolve, the company’s conceptual design focussed system. While the updates and introductions covered so far are extensions of tools from the previous releases, the big news for this release is the introduction of PolyNURBS. Via GIPHY solidThinking Inspire 2016 – PolyNURBS In terms of simulations that can be incorporated into the optimisation process, the same set of structural tools is available, but this release adds the ability to incorporate buckling analysis into the mix as well. This means you can now add in details of enforced displacements, angular velocity and acceleration, g-loads and temperature. On that subject, the solidThinking Inspire 2016 release also sees an expanded set of constraints. Depending on the part of the icon (you’ll quickly pick this up), you can assign constraints, loads, pressures, torque etc. For example, it’s a single icon for boundary conditions definition. Unlike most systems where the icon invokes a single operation, within solidThinking Inspire each icon has different operations.
If you’re new to Inspire, it’s worth spending some time exploring each icon. However, what has changed is that the functions (for reasons that will become clear shortly) have now been separated into different sections for file interactions (import/export), view, geometry, structure and analysis.
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