Options for Your Viewport

Options for Your Viewport

Design Studio for Genesis® provides several options to change how things are displayed in the viewport window.  You can change the size of arrows, set the limit angle for defining feature lines and limit the number of labels that appear.  Perhaps most interesting is...
Designing Better Experiments with ILIAD

Designing Better Experiments with ILIAD

When designing a digital or physical experiment with several variables (or more) it can be difficult to choose parameter value combinations that faithfully capture the design space. The distribution of design points can radically alter our perception of the behavior a...
Using Data Parameters for Data Transfer

Using Data Parameters for Data Transfer

Oftentimes, an optimization study is a single step in the solution process chain. As such, its configuration is dependent on the outcome of the component before it and it affects the configuration of the next component. To build such a workflow, we must enable and...
Make a Catalog of Your Views

Make a Catalog of Your Views

Being able to easily get the right views of a model is very important to understanding the insights it can provide.  Design Studio for Genesis® provides quick access to the six standard axis views and eight isometric views via buttons in the viewport toolbar.  You can...
Freeform Optimization to Reduce Stress

Freeform Optimization to Reduce Stress

Genesis® for Ansys® Mechanical (GSAM/GTAM) adds the power and versatility of Genesis® structural optimization capability to the ANSYS environment. In this article, we would like to show how to perform freeform optimization to reduce stress. Freeform optimization is a...
Shape Optimization of a Steel Bracket

Shape Optimization of a Steel Bracket

In this blog we are going to cover the design of a simple stamped steel bracket that was optimized for minimum mass and minimum stress using shape optimization with the GENESIS structural optimization software and its GUI Design Studio.  The FEA model is made with...