Generative Design
What is Generative Design?
Generative design is a process of design exploration, in which designers can input specified goals into a generative software. The AI then utilizes these parameters, which could include performance or spatial requirements, materials, manufacturing methods, or cost constraints. Then the software explores all the possible permutations of a solution, quickly generating design alternatives. It tests and learns from each iteration what works and what doesn’t.
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Fusion360 is a Autodesk software that allows for the production of Generative design. Group TBD spent the first few weeks of the semester learning how to set up Fusion360 files, using avoid and preserve geometries to produce a variety of different objects. These two geometries allow for you to communicate various design constraints to the software. These are some of our first generative outcomes.