Edit form after generative design

[mephiengineer]

Dear friends,

While passing an Generative Design Autodesk course on Coursera, I watched a bunch of videos how to edit a form, but probably missed the point why I have  to do that.

Please take a look at the attached picture. I edit the form in my 1st course challenge, and there is a question - should I cure these areas ? I am talking about areas where black lines are kinda hidden. It is a general question without any link to course requirements since I just want to gain new skills.

It is clear why I have to cure areas which attached to the preserved geometry and so forth, but for these areas I have got no reason. Tell me please, is it necessary? Does it make a model better in terms of 3d printing? Does it reduce possible mistakes while saving the solid body? I just try to figure what sort of problems these untreated areas can bring. There are too much of them, and it is matter of time.

Thank you for any help!

Best regards,

Dmitrii Sokolov.

[alessandro.gasso · Accepted solution]

Hi Dmitrii,

When you use the Unrestricted, Additive, 3/5 Axis Subtractive and Die Casting Manufacturing options, Generative Design produces outcomes with an organic shape between the entities of the preserve geometry.

These outcomes are "manufacturing aware". That is, the shapes are compliant with the manufacturing method selected and that is supposed to be used to produce the part. By the way, in some cases, you need to do some little modifications for preparing the part for the production, based on your experience, like, for instance, removing small undercuts, or little holes, etc.

If you open one of this outcomes, you have the possibility to edit the organic shape in the sculpting environment, for modifying just the details that, according to your experience, can create problems for producing the part with the technology you want to use, and that's mainly the only purpose for doing that.

I hope this clarify a bit.

You can find below a link with some good practices for editing the organic shape for a Generative Design outcome.

 https://youtu.be/rMQFj4br6jQ

I hope this can help too.

Regards,