The last days I had a bit time to look through the Topology Study.

With Solidworks 2019 new constraints will be added   and for reason I created this discussion.

I would like to create a part with minimized material but with an FOS of 2, the possible design space looks like this

The material of use should be 1060 Alloy, the external loads should be gravity downwards and additionally should a 20 kg mass be placed on the small face on the topside. It is highlighted at the next screenshot

As a goal I select "Minimize Mass", "Stress/Factor of Safety Constraint" and set the Factor of Safety Constraint to 2, as shown in the next picture

For the mesh, I used a coarse Standard Mesh, because I just want to get an quick overview. Here you will get also the mesh details of my study

Than the study will be ready to run, during calculation I watched the convergence graphs

at my opinion it doesn't look like that a proper convergence was reached, so I went to the study properties, advanced and changed the maximum number of iterations to 100. Afterwards I run the study again but with the same result. What ever, I took what I got, so the result plots look like the following ones

Now I would like to perform an evaluation, for that reason I exported the smoothed mesh body to a new configuration with the advanced export option “Solid Body”

Before now running a new study, I performed some changes. Because the model will be split into lots of surfaces and this will be a pain in your   when you want to place fixtures and loads, so I used the functions "Surface From Body", "Delete Face" and "Knit Surface" to get proper faces.

Here before

This is the result afterwards

After the change I created a new static study with an FOS plot. This plot shows me where I need to insert more material so that the whole part has a minimum FOS of 2

So now I’m interested what do you say to my way?  Would you do it the same way?