topic Generative Design - Structural Load - Force per Entity? in Fusion Design, Validate & Document Forum

Generative Design - Structural Load - Force per Entity?

Anonymous — Thu, 10 Jun 2021 19:16:28 GMT

Hi all,

I have a question regarding the structural loads in Generative Design. When I want to apply only one Force of 1600 N spread over five faces there is always the grey marked option "force per entity" activated although I can't deactivate it. So when you have a look at my screenshot what does it mean?

Is it 1600 N in general and just spread over the five faces?

Or is it 1600 N * 5 faces => 8000N together?

Thanks for helping out

Cheers

Julian

Re: Generative Design - Structural Load - Force per Entity?

rushabhthakkar_910 — Fri, 11 Jun 2021 17:24:34 GMT

If you take a peek at the force dialog box you will notice there is an option for "Force per Entity" - but it is grayed out from interaction. This is turned on by default (for now) and explains your question.

The load is applied to both entities individually.

Re: Generative Design - Structural Load - Force per Entity?

admaiora — Sat, 19 Mar 2022 12:25:07 GMT

Is there a reason to show the user a useless (always grayed) and confusing setting?

Re: Generative Design - Structural Load - Force per Entity?

il4masta — Thu, 05 May 2022 09:00:26 GMT

I just did two studies for the same configuration with the one difference - the "force for entity" option. I took one load case for a bunch of faces with the same number of load force value.

I found that when V stays in the checkbox, the displacement increases multiple than if the checkbox is empty. So for my understanding the "force for entity" are means what the number of force is playing for each face individually (like if 1000N and 3 faces it will be 1000N * 3), and the opposite case without "force for essence" means the force is playing for all selected faces together (1000N / 3)

Re: Generative Design - Structural Load - Force per Entity?

bennychan.eng1986 — Thu, 23 Jun 2022 12:56:26 GMT

Hello everyone

What is Force Per Entity?

Re: Generative Design - Structural Load - Force per Entity?

admaiora — Mon, 07 Nov 2022 11:44:00 GMT

I see that there is still this confusiong setting