as obstacle, preserve,
and starting geometries
(Figure
N
). Those
geometries don’t have
to be created in the
original design.
Click to access Solid
and Surface submenus and run the mouse over
the icons for tooltips. In the Modify menu, the red
X removes features, and the blue dot replaces
selected objects with primitives. Know that the
changes you make in the Generative Design
workspace are permanent, not temporary. The
Edit Model function is there so that you don’t have
to leave this workspace to go into other ones.
Let’s remove the lower two cones by selecting
them in the Browser and deleting (Figure
O
).
Then click Finish Edit Model.
DESIGN SPACE
Choose what to preserve and what to serve as
obstacles (Figure
P
). Preserved geometry are
items to remain untouched. Obstacle geometry
are areas in the design where we don’t want the
GENERATIVELY DESIGN A TREE
Model a part in the Solid workspace to give the
AI something to work with. It can be a single
body, multiple bodies, or a component assembly.
It can be very basic, maybe something that just
has mounting holes, flanges, or parts that will
carry loads. Remove any non-essential parts
like fasteners, pins, fillets, and chamfers. Turn
off the visibility of all parts that you don’t want
considered in the study.
Figure
K
shows a tree modelled in the Solid
workspace. It consists of five simple bodies: three
cones, a straight cylinder, and a tapered cylinder.
Bring it into the Generative Design workspace
and we’ll go through the icons from left to right.
STUDY
In the Generative workspace, click on the New
Generative Study icon to put a “Study1” entry in
the browser (Figure
L
). Everything you input will
go here. Then right-click on the study. This brings
up a window that lets you choose the result’s
resolution: Coarse will generate faster than Fine
(Figure
M
). You might want to generate several
coarse studies to save your cloud credits before
generating a fine one.
EDIT MODEL
This lets you create additional bodies to serve
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