Setting Up Your Design Space

In a simulation, you can select the design space, mesh it and specify the functional regions.

  1. From the Design Study section of the action bar, click Topology Optimization.
  2. Click Create new optimization.
  3. Define the optimization strategy and click Create.
  4. From the Topology Optimization assistant, click Model configuration.
  5. Check that there a part to optimize, that a material has been applied, and click OK.
  6. Click Regions to preserve and select the partitions to create the corresponding functional regions.


  7. Click Connections and select a circular edge.
  8. Select an edge and click Bolt in the context toolbar.