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📄️ Design Optimization

How deFlex uses AI-driven optimization to generate compliant mechanism designs from scratch.

What compliant mechanisms are, why they matter, and how deFlex designs them.

The design domain where deFlex's optimizer places material.

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Pairs link input preserves to output preserves with stiffness coupling in deFlex.

How Separate, Combined, and Metamaterials preserve modes change boundary condition layout in deFlex.

How linear and rotational paths define motion direction and magnitude for preserves in deFlex.

What obstacles are in deFlex, how part-based and hull-based obstacles work, and how they affect design optimization.

The material budget that controls how much of the design space the optimizer can fill.

How deFlex discretizes the design space into grid cells and how resolution affects results.

How to tell when the solver has found its best design.

How to read and evaluate the design output from deFlex's solver.

How deFlex designs thermally compensating compliant mechanisms for precision mounts.