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The world of engineering has always been in flux and will continue to change. Engineers are constantly striving to find new solutions to improve machines, products and processes. And not only for the result of their work, but also for their daily work itself. This is why another change from manual drawing to digital drawing (CAD) to automated design is expected. The usage of CAE tools will increase to more and more workstations and will be simplified to be used by the normal engineer instead of highly specialized experts.
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Therefore, Generative Design is never a straight line from setting up a model and taking the outcome. It is more a creative process where variety is a key for successful designs. You can think about a funnel where hundreds (or software internally even thousands!) of different designs are thrown in and then thinned out by the optimisation goals such as stress, weight, design or manufacturing constraints.
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