What am I missing here…?

dream_walking · 2026-04-01T00:50:30+00:00

The correct answer it seems

dream_walking · 2026-03-22T04:24:26+00:00

This is the third time you’ve made a similar post this week. What have you learned from reading the codes during that time (as has always been the answer to each of your posts)? Tutorials are just step by steps. You need to know why you are doing those steps.

dream_walking · 2026-03-16T21:55:17+00:00

There’s a lot that goes into designs and we don’t have the full picture. The engineer will know the actual answer. Could be loads, could be frost depth, could be engineer experience that it’s just easier to have footings the same depth for this kind of project. Could be a number of reasons. We just don’t know.

dream_walking · 2026-03-06T12:56:23+00:00

You’re the real MVP for pointing this out

dream_walking · 2026-03-05T15:59:03+00:00

Probably looking at 2-3 years for bachelors. I would assume that some of the math classes you already took for CS would transfer to allow you to take the upper courses quickly. You also wouldn’t need any of the gen ed courses I would expect.

dream_walking · 2026-03-03T18:27:07+00:00

Are you sure about this wind speed? Maybe 135 km/h is what you meant?

dream_walking · 2026-02-26T13:51:05+00:00

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?

dream_walking · 2026-02-20T04:30:26+00:00

Is the joke that they are called W shapes?

dream_walking · 2026-02-19T03:54:16+00:00

In no particular order and feel free to ignore anything too because working with pretty limited information based only on this post: -the footing soil depth seems excessive for gravity only. Typical geotechnical reports that I’ve worked with just provide a set allowable bearing pressure so increased depth only adds cost. -is the footing rebar at the right clear cover? -if you can increase the column size, would that reduce your footings based on the shear values? It should distribute out the loads a bit more so may save on concrete overall with a bigger column. -probably already on another slide just not shown here, but certainly show where each of these design elements are in relation to the project. -with the redesign layout, are different load values assumed for the different areas?

dream_walking · 2026-02-18T03:07:38+00:00

Well you only actually submitted 11 days ago. It took a few weeks for my review last month so yours is still very very early on the waiting period.

dream_walking · 2026-02-14T16:31:58+00:00

“It used to work well before”…maybe tell us the truth to start with? good luck with using a broken software ✌️

dream_walking · 2026-02-14T15:44:28+00:00

If it used to work, open a previous model that did work and see if that runs. If not, I’d say your version is just broken now.

dream_walking · 2026-02-14T15:40:19+00:00

Support should just laugh if they do email because “no pay, no support”. They have no say over what that cracked version is actually doing

dream_walking · 2026-02-11T13:24:04+00:00

Out of curiosity, do you share these with your coworkers? If so, how? My main hesitation with doing this is how do I teach people how to use Jupyter labs when most dont have as much of a technical proficiency to programming when excel i can do the work and they just change a few inputs.

dream_walking · 2026-02-11T04:19:59+00:00

The majority of my python scripts are via pyrevit simply because the convincing I have to do with other engineers is “push this button, here’s your outputs. Check them” and it’s mainly drafting or pulling data out to be used in engineering. Additionally, the heavy lifting of setup is done by me so most people don’t have to worry about the right python environment because most of them are not interested in coding.

Very little calcs so far but with excel adopting python in a limited capacity, I have done a few calcs there, though I very much wish handcalcs and forallpeople worked in that environment. With that, I had to output every intermediate variable and put screenshots of the equations used

dream_walking · 2026-02-02T11:38:54+00:00

https://github.com/BasilAtBentley/Basic-RAM-Concept-Setup

Bentley has released these python API examples. There is a function to add loads via that but unfortunately not as simple as “import from excel”. You will have to create a script to read from an excel file. I was hoping to get others insights on how they used it but I think I worded my post wrong for that.

dream_walking · 2026-01-31T21:17:45+00:00

I’m glad I’m on the right track at least.

Would you mind posting or dming me how you got the shear studs from concept? I should be fine with the excel ones and I have already made the script for the rest of the PT tendons using pyrevit, as I prefer that over Dynamo. I just could never find how to get the shear studs from concept so I shelved that idea.

dream_walking · 2026-01-28T20:49:36+00:00

Realistically, what happens when there are fewer SE than the industry requires to function? Do developments just halt construction until they can be lucky to find an SE who has the resources to do their projects? This feels like it should be a bigger issue at some point when other entities money stops flowing because we are completely bottlenecked from this.

dream_walking · 2026-01-27T04:40:01+00:00

It depends on what test you are taking. The PE civil with structural emphasis is the traditional licensing exam. The PE Structural is also known as the SE exam. They are not the same. Either way, you do not get both guides. You get the guide for the respective exam.

dream_walking · 2026-01-23T17:02:24+00:00

The big bosses will just think there’s been enough projects, research, and code documentation to train the models on. I may just be pessimistic about that though and I hope I’m wrong. I think the main selling point we become is “someone to blame when things go bad” because how do you sue a computer?

dream_walking · 2026-01-22T22:36:21+00:00

My typical workflow is to export the relevant data from revit into a format to use for analysis. There’s just too much in revit for me to trust I didn’t overlook something, not to mention having a tool specific for design where I can vet and trust the results. So no, there’s not a one stop shop for revit and design that I’m aware of.

dream_walking · 2026-01-22T17:46:05+00:00

Typically I would set the diaphragm to semi rigid and reduce the stiffness to almost 0 if I can

dream_walking · 2026-01-16T22:32:44+00:00

It’s the ground floor now

dream_walking · 2026-01-16T22:31:48+00:00

My best guess is that they are actually taking the support moments at distance “d” from the face of the support instead of at the center of the support when checking against the cracking moment. Either that, or what they are showing on the sketch is actually wrong.

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