Explore generative study outcomes

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Explore generative study outcomes.

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After completing this video, you'll be able to

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explore a generative outcome and filter and compare generative outcomes

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in fusion 360.

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Let's carry on with our design, internal combustion engine Dash GEN design set up.

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Once the study has completed,

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you'll note that there will be a green circle listed next to the study in the browser.

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This tells me that the generate is still in progress,

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but we're gonna go ahead and navigate to explore

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and take a look at the results we have

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at the very top of the explorer. We have a recommended outcomes section.

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This is going to take a look at all the different manufacturing methods,

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materials as well as some other things such as visual similarities.

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Each of these will be listed down below and you can see them with the thumbs up icon.

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The different icons will represent different technology or

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options that were used to create the outcomes.

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For example,

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this one indicates an experimental solver has been used to generate this outcome.

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You'll note that it looks identical to study three outcomes seven.

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And this is because currently there are two solvers

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running in the background validating each of the outcomes.

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So you'll see a lot of results that look fairly

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similar between the normal solver and the preview solver.

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Some of these outcomes are converged while others are completed.

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And we can take a look at the filter status by going

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up to our outcome filters and taking a look at converged,

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completed or processing.

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We can also see information about the study,

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the visual similarities, whether or not they were using tech preview

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and other options such as the manufacturing methods or materials.

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Let's go ahead and take a look at only the processing status set to processing.

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We can see here that these are still being processed and we don't really

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have a good idea of what those outcomes are going to look like.

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So let's go back and let's take a look at completed and converged outcomes.

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One of the main distinctions that we need to understand when we're

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talking about outcomes in generative design

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is the distinction between converged and completed

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a converged outcome is going to converge on whatever objectives we set

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a completed outcome has reached its limit and

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was not able to converge to those settings.

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Let's go ahead and use the check box in the

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upper left hand corner to compare a handful of these.

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We're going to use the compare icon in the bottom right hand corner

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and now we can see three different studies.

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The one in the upper right study, three structural component. Outcome seven,

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we can see in the far right hand side that this is converged.

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This was made from titanium using the Z plus additive manufacturing.

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We can see that costing data for the production volume ranges from 76 to 100 and $44.

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With the median being 100 and eight.

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We can also see down below that the factor of safety limit is set to four.

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When we take a look at outcome number nine,

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this was done using titanium with Z minus additive.

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So as we rotate these around,

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we're likely going to see very similar shapes on both sides of the design.

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When we take a look at outcome 17, this outcome has completed.

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If we take a look at the factor of safety limit,

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we can see that it was only able to get to 170.8.

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Let's go ahead and hide study outcome seven.

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And let's focus our attention only on the

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outcome that is completed and not converged.

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If we take a look at the iterations and we roll back a little bit,

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we can change our display options to show the stress view.

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The stress view is gonna show areas of low, high and ideal stress reference.

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This means that areas that are red are going to need

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material added to them because they have a high stress reference.

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Because of the high stress reference right around the smaller cylindrical body,

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it was not able to adequately get enough material in those areas,

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which makes sense because this was an aluminum, a 3 56 set for casting.

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This means it's a much softer material than the

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titanium that was used in the previous example.

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We're gonna finish the outcome view and we're gonna take

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a look at just one of these outcomes study.

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Three structural outcome number seven.

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Once again, this is additive,

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we can see that there was a slight bit of material that

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was built into that bore even though we did have an obstacle

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that will likely get removed. A little bit later,

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we can see that the obstacle section if we toggle on our show

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is pinching off the design slightly in this area.

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We can also toggle on the preserved geometry and see

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which areas we were preserving or keeping in the design.

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Once we're happy with the selection,

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we can go through and we can use design from outcome

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or we can use mesh design from outcome.

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We've explored these earlier on in the course.

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But once we decide which ones we want to use,

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we simply need to select design from outcome or mesh design from outcome

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Fusion 3 60 will begin processing these results.

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And once they're available to be opened,

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we'll be prompted to open the design in Fusion 3 60.

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For now, let's finish the outcome.

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Noting that we are generating these from study three outcome seven.

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It's hard to make a final determination

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until all of the studies have completed processing

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until then we won't really know whether or not we have

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a good picture of what the final design will be.

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In this case,

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it seems like the aluminum materials are not going to be strong enough

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for the required inputs that we set inside of our design space.

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It seems like the load might be a bit too large for those materials.

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Again, until they're completed processing, we won't really have a good idea,

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but we do know that this outcome is a valid outcome based

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on the criteria that it converged on our factor of safety limit.

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And that it is made from one of the manufacturing methods that we described

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for. Now, let's go ahead and wait until these outcomes have finished processing.

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While we wait. Let's go ahead and take a look at some additional options that we have

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for this, we can add to our favorites.

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This is an idea that we're looking to explore a bit more

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and we can also add a label.

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If we create a label,

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this will help with filtering a large amount of generative outcomes.

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I'm gonna call this one additive option one.

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We're gonna select done

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and labels can be added to multiple outcomes and

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be used as a way to filter the outcomes

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we can see here. Now, the star has added it to our favorites and there is a label here.

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When we take a look at our outcome filters on the left hand side,

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we now see a label section that can be used.

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We also have design files.

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So in this case,

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we now have a filter that allows us to isolate any

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outcomes based on the fact that we are processing a design,

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we do have additional options for display.

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For example, we can show the properties underneath each of the tiles.

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We can also show a scatter plot view which allows us to change the axis labels.

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In this case, we want to take a look at mass

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versus displacement.

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We can see from this plot that on the left hand side, we have a

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relatively higher mass

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and a lower displacement.

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As we reduce the mass, the displacement gets a bit higher.

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This can be a great way to look through the

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various outcomes and decide which one is best for you.

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We also have a table view which is a good way for us to filter through

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various different tags or filters to see which study is going to be the best option.

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In most cases,

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the thumbnail view is going to be the default as

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we're looking at the visual properties of the outcomes.

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Noting that if they've converged,

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they have met all the criteria that we set in our design objectives.

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At this point, we're going to allow it to continue to generate those designs,

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the mesh and the free form design.

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And we'll check back in once we have those items

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there is no need to make any saves while we're inside of the explore view.

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You can always finish explore once you're

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done looking through the various designs.