Introduction

This guide introduces you to the Design Module that provides tools such as constraints and dimensions, and projections to create 2D geometry, and the geometry features loft, thicken, midsurface, fillet, chamfer, offset faces, project to faces, and transform faces for creating and modifying geometry in 3D.

Using the loft operation you can generate 3D geometry based on cross-sectional profiles, while the midsurface enables the simplification of imported geometry objects for shell type analyses. Using a combination of midsurface and thicken operations you can even reparameterize and optimize the thickness of imported geometry. The offset faces and transform faces operations enable the editing of imported 3D geometry objects to change the size and position of geometric features. You can, for example, reparameterize the diameter and location of holes to optimize an imported design.

The module adds support for importing several 3D CAD file formats, and includes repair and defeaturing functionality for preparing imported geometry for analysis.

The detailed tutorials that follow start you off with becoming efficient in using the provided functionality.