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Video Tutorial: Creating Field-Driven Effects in Lattices
A few videos showing you how to create field-driven effects in lattices using implicit geometry, implicit bodies, BRep or construction geometry, and point clouds.

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  - Video Tutorial: Shell and Fill a Lattice in Inspire Implicit Modeling
    Tutorial Level: Intermediate Learn how to shell and fill a part using a lattice in Inspire Implicit Modeling.
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    Tutorial Level: Advanced Learn how to design a heat exchanger first using a multi-domain gyroid surface lattice and then using a biased multi-domain gyroid surface lattice with variables in Inspire Implicit Modeling.
  - Video Tutorial: Morph Geometry in Inspire Implicit Modeling
    Tutorial Level: Intermediate Learn how to morph between two different types of lattices in Inspire Implicit Modeling. In this case, we'll morph between a planar hexagon lattice and a body centered cubic strut lattice.
  - Video Tutorial: Creating Field-Driven Effects in Lattices
    A few videos showing you how to create field-driven effects in lattices using implicit geometry, implicit bodies, BRep or construction geometry, and point clouds.
  - Video Tutorial: Field-Driven Design in Inspire Implicit Modeling
    Tutorial Level: Advanced Learn how to create lattice ribs to strengthen an electrical cover in Inspire Implicit Modeling. The lattice thickness will be field driven, using stress data from a SimSolid analysis.
  - Video Tutorial: Apply Field-Driven Effects to a Lattice in Inspire Implicit Modeling
    Tutorial Level: Advanced Learn how to apply field-driven effects to a lattice based on distance to a BRep surface in Inspire Implicit Modeling.
  - Video Tutorial: Structural Analysis of a Part Containing Inspire Implicit Lattice Geometry
    Tutorial Level: Advanced Learn how to run a structural analysis of parts containing lattice geometry created in Inspire Implicit Modeling.
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Video Tutorial: Creating Field-Driven Effects in Lattices

A few videos showing you how to create field-driven effects in lattices using implicit geometry, implicit bodies, BRep or construction geometry, and point clouds.

This video shows you how to use implicit geometry and implicit bodies to create field-driven effects in lattices.

This video shows different ways in which you can use BRep or construction geometry to create field-driven effects in lattices.

This video shows a point cloud being created from simulation data, which is subsequently used to drive some lattice properties.