2025
Evaluate designs by using geometric variables and applying a design-of-experiments (DOE) or optimization method. We recommend fully constraining your sketch when sketch variables are used in the design exploration.
Goals comprise objectives and constraints.
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Create and assign variables to parametrize a model. This allows you to quickly iterate and compare design concepts by tweaking the values of the variables.
Create 2D sketches, surfaces, and solids.
Perform Feasibility, Blank Fit, and Blank Nesting analyses.
Open any part in Studio to design the die, and import the die face design into Inspire Form from Studio.
Perform tryout analyses to validate die designs.
The Design Explorer Browser displays a hierarchical view of your design setup and can be used to enable and disable exploration parameters.
An exploration is a DOE or optimization simulation. Each exploration must include design variables and responses. Optimizations must also include an objective and optionally constraints.
Design variables are changes of the geometric variables that influence the performance of certain analyses.
An output response is a measurement of system performances, such as mass, volume, displacement, or stress.
Objectives are metrics to be minimized or maximized in an optimization exploration. Common examples are minimizing displacement to find the stiffest design for a system or minimizing mass to find a lightweight design.
Constraints can be added to an optimization and need to be satisfied for a feasible exploration.
Use the Evaluate tools to run the exploration and review reports.
Adjust the materials, environment, and properties of objects in the scene to create a photorealistic image.
Analyze the object geometry for negative draft, trim angle, and shortest distance between parts.
Review forming outcomes through the Analysis Explorer.
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