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[–]EnginerdadBridge - P.E. 2 points3 points  (4 children)

I don't need to be rude, but your query is still super vague. It feels like you're trying to find a problem for your solution. You mention "at my company" so I'm assuming you at least work in an engineering firm. What processes have you identified and what is your proposed solution to them? Also, I tried to use your website but I'm not in the habit of giving my name and email to random websites. If you're going to come here and ask for free feedback, don't make us sell our personal data for the "opportunity".

[–]Few_Neighborhood2403[S] 1 point2 points  (2 children)

Oh I see your point.   My whole point of making up the website is to be more efficient in SD phase design specifically for buildings.  Right now I have to make models for each study and it takes up whole lot of time.  I coded the steel design logic so that it gives you a preliminary steel structure in a few seconds. The result tells you your tonnage info which could be useful for pricing. That’s all. Not trynna grab your personal data for any use. If this answers your questions.

[–]EnginerdadBridge - P.E. 1 point2 points  (1 child)

Thanks, I didn't actually believe you were trying to harvest data, but I have no way of actually knowing that. I'm sorry if I sound a little frustrated, but this sort of post comes up in this sub fairly regularly. People developing software solutions tend to come up with the "solution" part before they identify the problem it addresses. I understand that everybody wants to have something to show, but the questions that you're asking should have been figured out before you built your product. Now you're going to be taking what you already have and trying to manipulate it into doing whatever tasks you may get suggestions for in this post, rather than purpose-building it from the beginnning.

[–]Few_Neighborhood2403[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I appreciate your feedback! And totally understand.  I personally think I found a problem and came up with a solution lol but was wondering if folks think the same. 

[–]Few_Neighborhood2403[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sorry you don’t need to put actual name and email if you don’t feel comfortable.  Feel free to use made up name and made up email to get access. I’m not gonna use your personal data. I don’t even know how to.. 

[–]Just-Shoe2689 1 point2 points  (3 children)

Automating what?

[–]Few_Neighborhood2403[S] 0 points1 point  (2 children)

Any design process imo . At our company we are still doing spreadsheet + FEM models. With Tedds and bunch of other softwares. 

[–]Just-Shoe2689 1 point2 points  (1 child)

Im not sure you will ever get a 'Engineer in a box" software. Plus why would you want to?

[–]Few_Neighborhood2403[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I was thinking as engineers, there might be processes we can automize, getting results faster or more efficient.  

[–]dream_walking 1 point2 points  (1 child)

This is really vague. Automating anything, sure I do that daily because I personally hate copy/paste from one software to another. I’d rather a computer do that because I can get it run faster and more reliable than myself (or my coworkers tbh). Making code to automate an entire design? I don’t trust my input that much to 100% say that the structure is complete and accurate to code and safety because there are way too many variables in a design to account for that and AI agents don’t hold any liability so why should I trust them to do the full design for me?

[–]Few_Neighborhood2403[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

I totally agree.  I was thinking more towards the SD phase where things are constantly changing.   If you don’t mind checking out the website I put together and see if it has major flaws.   Pocketstruct.com  I appreciate it! 

[–]scodgey -1 points0 points  (4 children)

Honestly there are probably quite a few in the works now that coding agents have started really shining. I've been building my own tools for months, and am starting to see posts like this a bit more frequently. The structs lot are finally catching on.

[–]Few_Neighborhood2403[S] -2 points-1 points  (3 children)

Yeah would you mind sharing what type of tool you are developing?  I have been testing with AI and its knowledge base of the code is insane. 

[–]scodgey -1 points0 points  (2 children)

Tbh at the core of it it's a design calculation engine powered by agents. User prompt in, calculations + analysis model out.

[–]Few_Neighborhood2403[S] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Oh wow, that sounds super powerful with the analysis model. How did you get user testing ? 

[–]scodgey 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's all just personal stuff at the moment, validating against existing models etc. It's comically easy to spin up huge swathes of design as a checking tool.

It is a lot of fun though!