🎯 Optimisation

Letting Alpaca4d find the design: the sections of a steel frame, or the shape of a structure.

• Size steel beams automatically: the lightest sections that pass EN 1993-1-1, with the Section Optimiser.
• Find a structure with topology optimisation: keep only the material the loads need, from a block of bricks or tetrahedra.

Every input of the components these use is on their reference pages: Section Optimiser, Design Group, Topology Optimisation. For design studies and searches over a definition's sliders, see Optimisation.