Sooooo, something I was wondering is: Does the generative design arms I designed actually work? I tested the arms using Onshape’s FEA (Finite Element Analysis) software. I set the bottom and top pieces as fixed for this simulation just to simplify the simulation. In reality, they would deform along with the drone arms. I calculated that each motor would produce around 11.8 newtons. Of course, this doesn’t take in account crashes and such, so I set a roughly 20x safety factor of 250N to take that in account. I designed a quick mock-up of a normal drone arm to compare. I was surprised to see that both arms survived flawlessly! Though, the generative designed arm was lighter at 19.5g compared to the 23g of the traditional design.
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