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[Orange Chevrolet @0rangeChevrolet]

#2moods

[em m0shouris @emm0sh]

Topology optimization? Of course you thought it would solve your problems. You fed the solver a single static load case and watched it chug on von Mises stress like it was Gatorade, all while completely ignoring principal stresses and actual mechanical properties.

Let me guess -- you just finished the SolidWorks Simulation or Autodesk Fusion generative-design marketing deck (or maybe the Ansys webinar), and now you think organic lattices are the future because the pretty red-to-blue plot said so.

You’re going to believe that right up until the first prototype hits the machine shop and they call you, asking why the flanges are thinner than the paper your college degree -- the one you Chegged your way through -- was printed on. Then the part buckles laterally under a moment that wasn’t even in your load case, crumples, and suddenly it’s your problem.

While you’re dealing with that, you’ll finally notice that the “optimized” geometry has internal corners that act as stress risers, which the solver didn’t catch because the mesh was too coarse. Whoops. Now your impossible-to-reach toolpaths are forcing the shop to either use EDM or scrap the whole batch because you gave zero thought to how the part would actually be fixtured, inspected, or survive any real manufacturing process. The QC guys aren’t even turning the CMMs on; they’re just laughing the drawings back to the office.

Then you’ll finally open Hibbeler’s Mechanics of Materials for real this time -- not just to regurgitate the von Mises formula -- and you’ll read the sections on lateral-torsional buckling and realize that the critical moment drops with the cube of the flange thickness and the square of the unbraced length. Your solver maximized both penalties while smiling at you. It never checked geometric nonlinearity. It never asked whether the material was ductile enough for the equivalent-stress assumption to hold. It never cared.

After that, you’ll crack open Timoshenko or the AISC specs, stare at the LTB equations, and it will hit you: topology optimization isn’t failing because the algorithms are bad. It’s failing because you treated a single-parameter stiffness game like it was engineering.

Anyway, Dave from a subsystem four teams away needs to move a bolt pattern over a quarter inch. Do you want to throw your CAD model away, or should I do it for you?

[falangetta777 ✟ 🇪🇸 @clinomano_]

"pero sin inmigrantes quien va a recoger las cosechas"
pues el mechanigger3000

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@mcnamk21 Quirk off white boy cop, let him loose in the black community #whiteboysummer

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@Saint_n0mad One wrong or unexpected loading condition and that skeleton is toast

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@reoindustries @SpeedSportLife Sounds like they will not be available. Too bad

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@reoindustries @SpeedSportLife How off the shelf will replacement parts be?

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@nypost She looks 40

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@reoindustries Hard pass. Make them halogen bulbs that you can replace the entire housing in 20 minutes on the side of the road with a screwdriver

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@_ParadiseParis1 Prison for life is the merciful option

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@DissidentWire LETS GOOOOOO

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@LeadingReport Lay me down some rails boys

[T 🇹🇹 @AlaskanTom]

Might throw something on the grill if Karmelo Anthony gets the death penalty

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@deadcenterr How do you respond to that??? 💀

[Toby Turner @TobyTurner]

We are going to kill you if you don’t leave btw.

You know who you are.

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@uncledoomer This looks mad good though, adding sauerkraut to my grocery list

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@garygastelu Its electric (gay) and looks like shit. Also woman owned. 3 major strikes

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@FrenchOG3 Example?

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@frontierism Who the hell is this broad

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@darjeet58 @TheBrancaShow Excellent