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.
Use the Evaluate tools to run the exploration and review reports.
Use the Results Explorer tool to review results.
Use the Results Explorer tool to review results for optimizations.
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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.
Goals comprise objectives and constraints.
Export files to the output directory and run the exploration simulations.
Use the Results Explorer tool to review results for DOE.
Once an exploration is complete, review a summary of design variables and output response values in tabular format.
Plot a 2D chart of the input variable and output response values for each run in an Optimization exploration.
Plot the iteration history of an Optimization exploration's objectives, constraints, input variables and unused output responses in a 2D chart.
Plot exploration inputs and outputs.
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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