MODELLING AND DESIGN
- Designing is very open-ended
- This openness is very unique
- Openness is troublesome, but a fact of life.
how would you model the process of configuring a general arrangement of parts, and solve it as a mathematical optimization problem?
You have to model and deal with geometrical forms, type of motions, force transmissions, etc.
Combining all these issues in a single model is almost impossible