🧱 I used AI to create a structural mechanics solver, and it only took 2 hours.
🧱 I used AI to create a structural mechanics solver, and it only took 2 hours.
Official Account: Non-Deconstructive · Author: Zhou Wenqi (Venchy)
The cause of the matter is actually very simple: Last night our non-deconstructive mechanics master used GAMA’s built-in structural mechanics solver to conduct a parametric analysis:
Did you find something awesome?！！！ But while chatting, the style of painting changed.Everyone is starting to discuss AI!！！
Take a look at this internal force map created using AI:
The editor suddenly had a whim, is it possible to create a structural mechanics solver by hand? VIBE Coding has become so popular recently, wouldn’t it only take a matter of minutes to get started? Well, just give it a try.
01. I gave it a reminder word
I use AI Studio and Codex to play together. I will give them a paragraph: Prompt word content:
Please help me generate a two-dimensional rod system mechanics solver based on vue3. Features include: 1. Nodes can be added, modified and deleted. 2. Add, delete and edit rod elements and specify stiffness. 3. Set up deletion and modification of node supports. 4. Set and delete node loads. Point loads can be arranged on nodes or members. 5. Display internal forces based on in-situ. 6. Display deformation based on in-situ. 7. Add uniform loads to the members. 8. Generate a bending moment diagram (BMD). 9. Generate a shear force diagram (SFD).
They started to work in a hurry. The process is very smooth, almost abnormally smooth. I keep adding needs, and it keeps filling them. Finally the entire solver ran in the browser. The total time is almost two hours. Facts have proved that AI Studio is still better!
You can access this solver through this URL: It was created by AI in two hours, and there must be some imperfections. If you don’t like it, please don’t criticize it! http://124.222.212.171:51674/
02.Maybe?
We used to think: “Software development is a huge threshold for structural engineering, requiring software team + mechanics expert + graphics development + deployment team.” For the first time, the large model removed this threshold. You don’t need: ✘ Write code ✘ Write matrix ✘ Writing interface ✘Write rendering engine ✘ Learn Docker ✘ Learn to deploy Even the language does not need to be precise, you only need to say: “I need this thing.” Then it just started doing it. And what we do is something our industry can understand: Modeling, loads, constraints, deformations, internal forces, and drawings.
03. Some young people will feel “this is very refreshing”, while others will feel “this is very painful”
In our industry, the competitiveness of young engineers largely comes from: ✔ Be more familiar with the software ✔ Be more familiar with graphic expressions ✔ Be able to do more tasks ✔ Better tools But the emergence of large models suddenly makes this advantage: Some things no longer seem so unattainable If the newcomer says: “I can write small tools in Python myself, and I can draw pictures, do calculations, and express myself.” The big model will reply: “I can do this too.” Let’s take a look at the vibe drawing below!！！ We don’t need to specifically develop any mcp or large model development. We just need to speak and call ready tools. Then you may ask: “How do we deal with the current challenges?” In fact, the answer becomes clearer: Your professional foundation is still decisive. The so-called VIBE Coding, It just lowers the threshold for you to use computer computing resources. For example, traditionally, you do finite element analysis, You have to rely on finite element software. Then, the computing resources you can use are limited to those limited by the software provider. But when you have the ability to perform VIBE Coding through large models, Your ability to use computing power depends on the boundaries of VIBE Coding you can master. However, if you know nothing about structural mechanics, It is impossible for you to make this solver through VIBE Coding. in other words: AI will do things, but it won’t decide what to do The group of people who can decide “what to do” are the core of the future structure industry.
04. So doing the solver for two hours is not essentially “showing off skills”
It represents three trends:
Trend 1: The structural industry will enter the “era of self-made tools”
The future won’t just be: SAP2000 / MIDAS / Abaqus / Ansys Also appears: “Every engineer’s personal tool” These tools were unthinkable before.
Trend 2: “Structural expressiveness” will become a new competitiveness
Who can do it in the future: “Expressing mechanical ideas into runnable tools” Whoever has the right to speak.
Trend 3: The knowledge accumulation method in the structural industry will be rewritten
Previous knowledge relies on: Master leads apprentice Oral transmission of experience Technical summary meeting Internal Technology PPT It may become a reminder word in the future: “Make this method a tool.”
05. The last words, I especially want to say to young structural engineers
Don’t be afraid of big models replacing us, but learn what big models can do for us. The structural industry will not be eaten by AI; But structural engineers who don’t know how to use AI will definitely be eaten up by other engineers.
Finally, paste all the prompts in this VIBE Coding process
I am now going to make a two-dimensional rod system structural mechanics solver based on Vue3.Nodes can be added, modified, and deleted.Rod elements can be added, deleted, and edited, and stiffness specified.Node supports can be set, deleted, and modified.Node loads can be set and deleted, and point loads can be arranged on nodes or members.Displays internal forces based on in situ.Display deformation based on in situ.You can add uniformly distributed loads to members.Generate bending moment diagram.Generate shear force diagram.Adding a box selection function allows me to delete and add components in batches.Added orthographic input functionality, allowing me to enter new nodes based on distance and orthogonal direction.Make the font slightly larger, set the background to white, and add some light grid lines to the background.It seems that it is currently impossible to add loads, including uniform loads and node loads on beams, as well as node loads on nodes. Please improve.The grid line color could be a little darker, it’s not clear now.Added Ctrl multiple selection function, Ctrl+click, you can click multiple non-adjacent objects.Internal force and deformation functions have been fully improved.The direction of the nodal loads you drew seems wrong.Displays axial force diagram, bending moment diagram, shear force diagram and deformation diagram.The different support forms are represented by richer illustrations.Set the grid to a form that can be extended infinitely, and adjust the grid demonstration to light blue.There is still something wrong with the load arrow you drew, please check again and correct it.Your y direction arrow is pointing to the right and is not connected to a thin straight line.At the same time, the node load in the x direction is also wrong, please correct it.The grid color can be darker.It also supports zooming the canvas by sliding the Ctrl wheel.When the x and y direction loads you draw are negative, the drawing is wrong.The load input box supports input of negative numbers.The modeling tool is only used when adding nodes and components, and adds the functions of copying and mirroring, moving, and rotating.The internal force or deformation value is displayed on the generated internal force deformation diagram, and the axial force is distinguished by different colors from tension and compression.Structural mechanics solver name changed to NSStructure 2D.Making a Dockerfile and docker-compose file allowed me to deploy the project directly on Docker via Nginx.The mouse wheel adjusts to zoom the canvas.Displays the support reaction force.Supports deleting member loads.After deploying via Docker on Windows, adding nodes sometimes fails.After zooming with the mouse wheel, the adding node function will also be disabled.The image I compiled on Windows via WSL seems to have some functions broken on Linux. What should I do?The elastic modulus of the rod cannot be set yet, please add this function.Optimize the current code. For moving and copying, you can set the distance and direction. For mirroring, you can click the mirror axis.
Have fun everyone! ! !
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Original Source: https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/EjES356LHaI4U2xzxPfbFg
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