How To Optimize The Shape Of A Gear With NX Topology Optimization

[@gauravsharma-ot6vs]

video after very long time.Nice and informative video. few ques: can Gear Teeth be added later and thus FOS will change? (since you have used 2 extra extruded profile for OD and ID.) do consumer GPUs(not the pro /enterprise ones) would work fine for NX and Simcenter3D like nvidia 4080 Super?

[@Simcenter3DTipsandTricks]

The FOS was only looking at the hub, not the OD teeth and ID spline. After adding the teeth and spline you could analyze again with loads and constraints on the teeth and spline with either Performance Predictor or Simcenter 3D. Not sure about the hardware requirements for GPUs. I have an NVIDIA Quadro RTX 3000.

[@geraldyuen5101]

topology optimization of heat sink ?

[@Simcenter3DTipsandTricks]

Would need Nastran Topology Optimization for a heat sink instead of NX Topology Optimization.