Designers of load-carrying structural parts are faced with ever increasing requirements related to light-weight and structural durability. Ultimately, this translates into getting a low-volume design with the lowest attainable stress levels and removed stress concentrations to assure the required service lifetime. In production environment this can only be achieved by engaging a highly efficient and fully interactive topology optimizer. It will be shown how much can offer in this view and what unique procedures it contains in order to maximize the chances to get a really good design of a real-life part. Basic knowledge of numerical FEA procedures is expected because topology-optimization-driven design is based on finite element models and numerical analysis.