Generative Design - Structural Load - Force per Entity?

[Anonymous]

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

[rushabhthakkar_910 · Accepted solution]

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. 

[admaiora]

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

[il4masta]

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)

[bennychan.eng1986]

Hello everyone

What is Force Per Entity?

[admaiora]

I see that there is still this confusiong setting