MSC Apex Generative Design은 고정밀 금속 부품을 제작하는 설계 엔지니어에게 진정한 엔드 투 엔드 솔루션을 제공합니다.
MSC Apex Generative Design

제너레이티브 디자인소프트웨어라고 해서 다 같은 것은 아닙니다
MSC Apex Generative Design은 고정밀 산업용 부품을 설계하는 엔지니어에게 필요한 솔루션입니다. 다른 소프트웨어보다 엔지니어가 개입해야 할 사항이 적고 설계된 형상을 3D 프린팅에 바로 적용할 수 있습니다.
변화는 우리에게 달려 있습니다. 처음으로 간단한 엔드 투 엔드 솔루션으로 다양한 부품과 제품들을 혁신하거나 개선, 검증할 수 있습니다. 설계 엔지니어들은 오늘 MSC ApexGD 혁신에 동참하시기 바랍니다.
설계 엔지니어들은 MSC Apex Generative Design을 좋아합니다. 이 툴은 엔지니어처럼 생각하여 동작하므로 사용할 때 매우 편리합니다. 감소, 형성 및 조립 디자인을 사용하여 부품을 빠르게 개선시킵니다. 사용자들은 시작 형상부터 준비, 최적화에 이르기까지 여러 단계를 결합하여 초기 디자인 및 설정 시간을 80% 단축했습니다.
설계 목표를 정하고 편안히 앉아 빛의 속도로 제공되는 여러 설계 형상을 확인하면 됩니다.
한눈에 보는 MSC Apex Generative Design
- 단순성 - 높은 사용자 중심 소프트웨어 디자인을 통해 최적화를 수행하는 데 있어 전문 지식이 필요하지 않습니다.
- 자동화된 디자인 - 무게는 최소화하면서 디자인 기준을 모두 만족하는 여러 개의 마무리된 디자인 후보를 거의 자동으로 생성합니다..
- 가져오기 및 검증 - 단일 CAE 환경에서 기존 형상 또는 메쉬를 가져오고 최적화된 디자인 후보를 찾고 디자인 검증을 수행합니다.
- 직접 출력 - 수동 재작업없이 직접 제조하여 즉시 사용할 수 있는 형상을 내보냅니다.
- 단일 프로세스 - Simufact Additive 또는 Digimat AM으로 결과 형상을 가져와서 모든 부품에 대해 비용 효율적이며 최초의 적정한 결과를 얻을 수 있습니다..
MSC Apex Generative Design의 이점
MSC Apex Generative Design의 핵심은 "제너레이티브 디자인 엔진"입니다
MSC Apex Generative Design의 혁신적인 접근 방식은 실무적으로 확인되었습니다..
유한 요소 해석이 기반이지만 기존 방법과 달리 밀도 필드를 사용하지 않고 잘 정의된 요소로 구성된 매우 미세한 메쉬를 사용합니다. 이를 통해 알고리즘은 발생하는 응력을 직접 평가할 수 있을 뿐만 아니라 인간의 마음으로는 상상할 수 없는 뚜렷한 형상을 안정적으로 이끌어 낼 수 있습니다.
전문 지식이 필요 없는 DfAM(Design for Additive Manufacturing)
MSC Apex Generative Design은 적층 공정으로만 제조할 수 있는 세밀하고 매우 복잡한 구조를 생성하도록 특별히 만들었습니다. 최적화된 디자인으로 스트럿 및 쉘과 같은 구조 요소 사이에 완벽한 전환이 가능할 뿐만 아니라 이 디자인에는 결과를 바로 인쇄할 수 있게 만드는 자체 지지 구조도 포함되어 있습니다.


MSC Apex in action - Case Studies

Lightweight construction is particularly important in satellite design because every extra kilogram generates high costs for transportation into space. If weight can be saved, the valuable payload of the launch vehicle or satellite can be used for further applications and added value can be created.
This was exactly the aim of the project between the space company Tesat-Spacecom GmbH & Co. KG, the machine manufacturer Trumpf and MSC Software / Simufact Generative Design specialists. The pictured mountings of drives for regulating microwave filters are to be used in the German communications satellite Heinrich Hertz, which is to test the space capability of new communications technologies. For this application, the weight of the mount needed to be reduced.
MSC Apex Generative Design was used to achieve this.
Lightweight Design on a new Level
A new, highly complex design was created by applying generative design, which enables maximum lightweight construction and is perfectly adapted and designed to the operational requirements. The result for the TESAT mount is impressive: 55% weight saving for a component designed for space technology. Instead of 164 grams, the mounting weighs only 75 grams. In addition, the innovative, stress-oriented optimization has further increased the stiffness of the component. The homogeneous stress distribution generated by MSC Apex Generative Design enables excellent stiffness and robustness with maximum weight reduction at the same time.
A perfect fit: Generative Design and 3D printing
"Today, additive manufacturing enables us to produce digitally generated and optimized geometries cost-efficiently. This offers enormous potential for lightweight construction, especially in space technology, but also in many other areas. In the future, generative design will play a key role in the uncomplicated and efficient use of this potential," commented Dr. Thomas Reiher, Director Generative Design at Simufact Engineering.
This new type of complex geometry can now only be produced with additive manufacturing. Trumpf took on this task with the TruPrint 3000 3D printer. The Heinrich Hertz satellite mission is carried out by DLR Space Management on behalf of the Federal Ministry of Economics and Energy and with the participation of the Federal Ministry of Defense.
Every year a team of young students from the UPBracing Team develops a FormulaStudent racing car to compete in international competitions. Two factors are essential for a successful racing car: light weight and strong components. In addition to the races in which drivers and racing cars prove their performance, there is also an extra rating for the lightweight construction of the racing car. Due to its fourfold use, the wheel carrier is ideal for saving weight while meeting high load-bearing requirements.

Conventional design for milling, due to the very complex shape the parts weighs 515g but produces 15.5kg aluminum waste

Optimized lightweight design in only 8 hours
Smart Generative Design for tailored 3D Printing Structures
In previous years, the teams had tried to design light weight wheel carriers with complex milling designs. The wheel carrier in 2012 with a traditional, already complex, milling design weighed 515g. It was milled from a 16 kg block of material thus producing 15.5 kg of aluminum waste. For the 2018 season, MSC Apex Generative Design technology was applied to create an optimal lightweight design. Design and non-design areas were defined in the model design and the complex load cases were added. The mesh was then automatically generated and optimized. The algorithm generated the finished smoothed result on a workstation with the high-end NVIDIA Tesla P100 graphic card in 6 hours (which would take approximately 14 hours with a solid workstation GPU NVIDIA QUADRO P5000). The result was single wheel carrier of with a weigh of 266g - a reduction of 48% compared to the 2012 equivalent. There was also no significant waste of material because the part was produced by additive manufacturing. This contributed considerably to the overall weight reduction of the race car and gained a lot of attention and a very good rating within the design report, a special category in the overall competition.


A popular example for testing the optimization quality of different algorithms is the "GE Jet Engine Bracket". This bracket of an aircraft turbine was published on the GrabCAD website by General Electric in 2013 as a design challenge for additive manufacturing. The challenge was to redesign the very simple component design using any method, and to develop a component that was as light as possible while taking the given boundary conditions into account. The Challenge attracted a great deal of attention and is still frequently used today to demonstrate the strengths of new algorithms.



Three different designs for the Jet Engine Bracket Optimization by MSC Apex Generative Design created in very short time
Choosing the most promising Design from various Variants
The same component with the same loads was calculated by MSC Apex Generative Design, with the results shown above. They were each calculated on a CAD workstation with two Nvidia P5000 graphics cards in less than an hour. The result reaches from an optimally-shaped, thin, multi-curved shell with thin additional struts for the transmission of the highest loads to a strut only design. Especially the shell design is very stable, particularly light and easy to produce with additive processes because hardly any support structure is required. It can only be achieved with a particularly high calculation resolution as MSC Apex Generative Design is capable of calculating while still being super fast. The automated generative design from MSC Apex Generative Design shown here is even lighter and has lower stress than other solutions. A weight of only about 140g could be achieved with a maximum stress of 680 MPa (target stress 700MPa).
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