I'm a PE who has been tinkering with LLMs for a few years now. Opus 5.5 does seem to be a game changer for drafting. I don't generate with python tho, I have it drive AutoCAD headlessly and use our firm's drafting standards/templates. Its a junior-level EIT at first, but I give it redlines via Bluebeam MCP and it updates the relevant CAD SOP for all future sessions.

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mcpcpc 20 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I am not an expert, but I’ve been tinkering architectural blueprints since Opus 5.5 released. From what I’ve learned, the vanilla results are a bit dated w.r.t CAD standards. Seems the only public version of the US NCS is v3 while the latest is v7. I ended up having to buy a licensed copy of v7 and develop my own MCP server to explore the standard. The result was a fairly significant rewrite of the application I wrote to comply with the latest requirements (see http://app.factoryplanner.net/try)

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pvab3 a day ago | parent | prev [-]

I am too. Doesn't that concern you for the future? I've been meaning to connect it to Revit but haven't had the time.

Edit: I'm not sure how fast any of this will be adopted with how slowly things move in construction. I'm surprised people are still using AutoCAD and making a profit.

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cucumber3732842 12 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Why would it concern a PE. 99.9% of their job is already stuff someone else could do and would rather not pay them to do but the government forces them to anyway. AI doesn't change that except perhaps remove a bit of the plausible deniability.

Now, I know, I know, I'm about to be hit with some bad faith retort about skyscrapers and bridges and other things engineered on a fine margin falling down. Your average multi tenant commercial building, your average parking lot, your average retaining wall ain't that. And that's the stuff that's the bulk of what PE firms do.

	▲	pvab3 9 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Because there are thousand of PEs across the country and eventually if a job requires 100x less time to produce, PEs will just be rubber stamping stuff after a thorough final review. My firm has like a dozen electrical PEs and we all spend the vast majority of our time in coordination meetings, reviewing small details, and working on drawings. If all I have to do is spend a few hours checking something at the end, they don't need all of us for that anymore.

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rabid_0wl a day ago | parent | prev [-]

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