A FreeCAD module that uses Generative Design to calculate and show structural analysis results
This project was devoloped based on Rahul Master's thesis and Ogeday Yavuz Graduation Thesis. To get more information about Rahul thesis click here.
This folder contains the code for a workbench plug-in for FreeCAD. Therefore you must have FreeCAD installed to use it. FreeCAD 0.20 can be downloaded for free from https://www.freecadweb.org/
Once installed, you can add this webpage address to Edit > Preferences > Addon Manager > Custom repository in Freecad. Second method after downloading this repository and manually copy the 'FembyGen' folder to the user 'Mod' directory for FreeCAD. This is normally found in the following directory:
in Windows: `C:\Users*UserName*\AppData\Roaming\FreeCAD\Mod
in Linux
/home/UserName/.local/FreeCAD/Mod
Where UserName is replaced with the name of your user profile.
Once copied, start up FreeCAD. From the workbench selection drop down menu in the top middle of the window, you should see the option for "FEMbyGEN". Selecting this will activate the workbench. All of the functions will work out of the box.
Create a Fem simulation in Freecad by using classical procedure which described freecad fem wiki pages. This file will be your master simulation.
Then you can open fembygen workbench. First button for initialization. It will create a spreadsheet which name is Parameters. You can open it and write your parameters and number of generations. Then you can click second button to alias parameter names and dimensions. You can assign your dimensions by classical spreadsheet definition. Freecad wiki and youtube can help you how to define it.
After then everything is easy, just click generate button, to create your new generations. You can check the files simply by clicking table in Gui.
Then you can use Fea button to fem simulations of all created generations.
At the end, you can check all results by clicking results button. You can open the generated files by clicking table rows of results Gui. And all results also will come to master file, you can check tree view for that.