Winston Jennings
I second that, but why is it sexier to say Generative Design that Topology Optimization. Only Autodesk I see actually does Generative Des...
I've used the tools in SW 2018, Fusion360, Ansys and Solidthinking Inspire, any of those programs need a design space in order to optimize an structure, and of course the loads and constraints.
Besides calling them generative design or topology optimization it depends on the user application and his/her intention with the design, if you start from scratch it would be called "Generative Design" as it's your first iteration, and probably you won't have any information on how the structure might be besides the workload.
If you have a previous part and you want to improve the strength or reduce the overall mass , then it would be called Topology optimization.
Sincerely I don't care if the program says one or the other, to me it's the user who is deciding what he/she will be doing.