Defining a Design Response

Design Responses (DRESPs) are the fundamental definitions of the optimization problem.

This task shows you how to:

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Define a Design Response in Tosca ANSA® environment

Tosca ANSA® environment admits design responses to be defined within an objective function (OBJ_FUNC) and within a CONSTRAINT.

  • The following figure shows possible categories of design responses for sensitivity-based topology optimization. The number of possibilities varies with respect to optimization type.

Define a Design Response in Tosca Structure.gui

  1. Choose Command > DRESP.

  2. In the DRESP dialog, select Apply Template to access the simplest and most used optimization responses. Otherwise select the main category and the required type of design response:

Define a Design Response in Tosca Extension for ANSYS® Workbench

  1. Add a design response to the project by clicking Optimization > Design Response.

  2. Choose Category and Response Type and the other settings shown in the following figure: