We have a flat plate with a given number of holes in it, and we would like
to minimize the surface area of the plate required. This seems like it
would be a good application for Behavioral Modeling to quickly resolve,
however the problem comes in when we attempt to use the FILL pattern to
define the hole layout.
In the optimization study, we would be trying to MINIMIZE surface area.
The variables in the optimization study would be the dimensions that
define the plate size (diameter if it's round, L X W if its rectangular,
etc).
We would also have three other design variables (all constants):
A) number of holes in the plate
B) diameter of each hole instance
C) minimum space between holes
The FILL pattern doesn't include a pattern parameter (number of holes)
that we can use in the Optimization study. I can't find a way to assign
the resulting number of holes in the pattern to a parameter (short of some
sort of gimmicky thing like subtracting LAST FEATURE number from the lead
hole feature number).
We set up three different models, using the various FILL pattern types we
were interested in exploring (circular, triangular & diamond), so we would
run this study on three different models, each using one of those FILL
pattern types.
Has anyone run into this problem and solved it?
BTW, we use WF2.
Thanks,
Dan McCaherty
Caterpillar Inc.
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