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My previous boss (we were in the civil construction industry) has been saying for years that we are on the cusp of an industry-shattering breakthrough with gene
by samplatt 4y ago
My previous boss (we were in the civil construction industry) has been saying for years that we are on the cusp of an industry-shattering breakthrough with generative engineering.
We should be able to, by now, input terrain maps, account for local water ways & rainfall, and Autodesk's Brobdingnagian suite of tools should be able to spit out a whole new suburban package, engineered to local country/city engineering standards.
The main thing that's holding is back is the complexity of engineering standards, and its implementation in the software. But all that'll take is time & money.
- brutusborn 4y agoI'm about to start work in this space. Some companies are getting close to full building automation, Augmenta seems to me to be closest / have the best approach. [0] Although the complexity of building standards is a challenge, the speed and quality of various generative algorithms are still major limitations. [0] https://www.augmenta.ai/ https://www.augmenta.ai/
- yarbas89 4y agoThanks for linking augmenta. I was wondering if you know of other similar companies? I'm an experienced structural engineer who's just completed an MSc in Comp.Sci. I want to combine the two disciplines and so far I've only been looking for consultants who utilise parametric design (Rhino + Grasshopper).
- brutusborn 4y agoNo problem! I don’t know of any other multidiscipline generative design companies, but for process plant design there is OptiPlant and PipeStream. There are a lot in the architecture space but these are mostly for high level conceptual design. In my experience many structural engineers code and use simple parametric models. Finding a company using actual generative design algorithms is still rare but there are definitely engineering teams out there who value comp.sci skills.