COMPUTER AIDED GENERATIVE DESIGN OF AUTOMOTIVE SHAPED COMPONENTS

Generative design as a new method of product development and innovation has become very important in the automotive industry at present. The reason for the introduction of this method into the process of development tasks solution is simple. This approach to car innovation leads to a reduction in the time spent developing prototypes. CAD software allows an approximate design to be used initially, with the ability to make subsequent changes to the aerodynamic properties and other attributes, according to the market needs. When the shape of a car is complete, styling is not closed and can be modified until the time of the final design confirmation. Now that the most important features are no longer just safety and driveability, the car's design and its saleability have become equally essential facets of the overall design process. The underlying assumption for innovation in this field is simplicity, and especially time-saving, during the development of the prototype. Since the early days of using intelligent design systems, opportunities for automotive design have expanded far beyond the boundaries of austere block shapes. These only made use of radiuses in the bending areas that were purely functional. By contrast one of the most important goals of modern car design is the shape of reflection lines. It is necessary to generate gentle and smooth curves of the car body which, under lighting, will catch the eye. Other goals include the drag coefficient, aerodynamic sound, and passive safety. Depending on the complexity of the body shell, it is possible to describe this shape by using more or fewer mathematical formulas. All these formulas are included in the special algorithm which controls the whole process. In this way, constraints can finally be generated automatically. [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]