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Optimization Solver - New Feature on fs.place
Caden_Armstrong
Member Posts: 208 PRO
I've gotten a number of request over the years for features that have a measurement based constraint such as perimeter or area. The topic has also come up on the forums a few times (https://forum.onshape.com/discussion/18610/how-can-i-use-perimeter-as-a-constraint). My answer to the question has always been - to optimize a surface/body you have to decide how to vary it, which requires design intent. Coding design intent into a feature is fine, but it isn't easily generalized.
But then the obvious solution hit me - just derive configured instances. Allow the parametric model to solve all the difficult design intent modifications to the model.
Introducing my new feature: Optimization Solver
This feature derives a given model for a specified range of a configuration variable - measuring the geometry at each step - and keeping the step that is closest to a provided target.
The user can then improve on the result by reducing the range of inputs, until a satisfactory result is reached.
This effectively allows for perimeter constraints in sketches (albeit with some design process caveats), and inferred dimension constraints.
In the public demo document I have a cube constrained to a volume, a sketch constrained by the face area and another sketch constrained by total edge length.
This is a paid feature - available on fs.place along with many other high quality features.
But you can check out the public demo document here:
https://cad.onshape.com/documents/82977c81d8aa2257b510e34a/w/a390c39e796c3c583a22dc9b/e/ea2a19509efb13f407c22f6d
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Bit similar to mine from 2021 😉
https://cad.onshape.com/documents/6b79cf2e96a74c4dec55438d
@NeilCooke I think @Konst_Sh might have you beat? 😎
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https://cad.onshape.com/documents/e12bd2a39fde18a14b252d1a/w/9bb2fa87194b2ac527c9846b/e/…
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Btw, this is cool @Caden_Armstrong . Can't have too many solvers. Each one is a little different.
I made one a while back too, before I realized all these other cool ones existed. But mine only does volume 😭so I'm not even gonna show it =P
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Looking through the code - bit similar indeed….great minds think alike?
@MichaelPascoe - very different solution to Konstantin's
But this all proves why I made fs.place - we need a better way to search for features.
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