Dakota vs TopOpt

Dakota plans

• DakotaFree

TopOpt plans

• Free MATLAB and COMSOL photonics codesFree
• Free MATLAB code for buckling optimizationFree
• Free MATLAB code for minimum-compliance problemsFree
• TopOpt apps and softwareFree

Pick Dakota if…

Dakota suits engineering analysts using computational models to explore designs, analyze uncertainty, or assess prediction confidence. Users on platforms without prebuilt binaries need to build from source.

Pick TopOpt if…

TopOpt suits engineering students and newcomers studying topology optimization, as well as users working with optimization code and frameworks. Its interactive apps and code target different levels of exploration and computational work.