User Interface Location: Click Applications > Generative Design > Send to Cloud. The Generative Design Extension application launches in the Creo embedded browser.

Release: Creo Parametric 7.0.2.0

Once an optimization is set up in Generative Topology Optimization (GTO), you can add multiple design criteria, and multiple materials to each Design Criterion. This study can be then sent to the Generative Design Extension (GDX), which, instead of only finding a single solution as in GTO, will generate a design for each design criterion and material using high performance computing.

GDX generates multiple designs simultaneously and provides a simple and intuitive way to analyze which designs are the best for the project. You can rapidly investigate multiple design scenarios and materials to find design geometry that would not have been found using traditional design methods. This approach saves time and material cost, reduces waste, and leads to higher performing designs.

You can then bring the best designs back from the GDX into Creo Parametric to make downstream changes and analyses.