When 3D is Not Needed

摘要

Imagine generating 1,000 design alternatives for a new rocket engine and analyzing the performance and behavior of these designs in parallel, using virtually unlimited computing resources in the cloud. This is the promise of design space exploration. In fact, this is the vision articulated by Carl Bass, CEO of Autodesk, in a keynote address at Autodesk University in November 2012 (Bass 2012).