Tutorial: GE bracket quick start
This tutorial leads you through the primary workflow from setting up a generative study to exploring outcomes.
The engine bracket is a critical component of aircraft jet engines. Brackets must support the weight of the engine during handling, without breaking or warping. The brackets are used sparingly, but they stay on the engine at all times, including during flight. Like all aerospace parts, it’s important to reduce weight without losing strength and performance. By applying Additive Manufacturing in this case, significant weight savings can be achieved.
In this tutorial, you:
- Open and save the sample, GE Bracket, to a personal folder and set the units and outcome resolution.
- Specify a design space by assigning geometry types to bodies.
- Specify a design conditions by applying constraints and loads.
- Specify a design criteria such as objectives, manufacturing methods, and select materials for the generative study.
- Generate outcomes and review several design options.
- Use the Properties View to compare properties of selected design options.
- Use the Scatter Plot View to select values to show on the chart axes and choose outcomes for comparison.
- Use the Table View to sort outcomes, open an outcome in the Outcome View, and compare multiple outcomes.
Before the generative design (left) and the finished example of the generative design (right).
Prerequisites
- Some tasks, such as outcome generation and use of outcome-based designs, require tokens or the Fusion Simulation Extension.
If you don’t have either of those, you can still follow the tutorial by using sample files. In the Data Panel, you can find predefined sample files that are ready to generate, and ready to explore. Also, there are examples of exported outcomes for selected manufacturing methods. You can open them and start learning at any point you want: Generative Design Samples. - This tutorial is based on requirements of one of the GrabCAD challenges. For more information, see GE jet engine bracket challenge.