EVALUATION OF TOPOLOGY OPTIMIZATION AND GENERATIVE DESIGN TOOLS AS SUPPORT FOR CONCEPTUAL DESIGN
Daria Vlah, Roman Žavbi, Nikola Vukašinović
Abstract
Abstract Nowadays, a large number of different tools that support early phases of design are available to engineers. In the past decade a specialized set of CAD-based tools were developed, that support the ideation process by generating different design alternatives according to the criteria given by the designer. Two types of tools are discussed in this paper: topology optimization and generative design tools. To investigate to what extent these tools are suitable for use in early design phases and what are the main differences between them, a study was conducted on an industrial case.
Topics & Concepts
Generative DesignTopology optimizationConceptual designComputer scienceIdeationSet (abstract data type)Generative grammarSystems engineeringProcess (computing)CADEngineering design processSoftware engineeringDesign processEngineering drawingIndustrial engineeringHuman–computer interactionEngineeringArtificial intelligenceProgramming languageWork in processMechanical engineeringOperations managementCognitive sciencePsychologyFinite element methodStructural engineeringMetric (unit)Topology Optimization in EngineeringDesign Education and PracticeAdvanced Multi-Objective Optimization Algorithms