I mean, it's creating a defined mesh of the part and the forces for each connection point on said mesh are calculated utilizing a defined matrix and some good old fashioned math, which you could do by hand but would take an untold amount of lifetimes for a single part.
But yeah, Topological optimization and generative design are really the same thing.
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I mean, it's creating a defined mesh of the part and the forces for each connection point on said mesh are calculated utilizing a defined matrix and some good old fashioned math, which you could do by hand but would take an untold amount of lifetimes for a single part.
But yeah, Topological optimization and generative design are really the same thing.