Patent ID: 11922099
Assignee: AUTODESK, INC.
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 0:
1. A computer-implemented method for generating designs for an urban design project via a computer-aided design (CAD) application, the method comprising:
populating, via a geometry engine included in the CAD application, a design mesh with a first set of structures based on a first set of construction rules and a first set of construction parameters to generate a first candidate design;
generating, via an evaluation engine included in the CAD application, a first topological metric for the first candidate design based on a first topology;
populating, via the geometry engine, the design mesh with a second set of structures based on the first set of construction rules and a second set of construction parameters to generate a second candidate design;
generating, via the evaluation engine, a second topological metric for the second candidate design based on a second topology; and
determining, via the evaluation engine, that the second topological metric exceeds the first topological metric, thereby indicating that the second candidate design is a higher ranked design than the first candidate design.