Creating Conveyor – Real-World Project Influences

Interoperability has been a foundational concept in the formation and continued operations of Proving Ground. In a blog post from 2016, I positioned interoperability as a ‘wicked problem’ for the building design and construction industry that is situated at the intersection of “interdependent issues of the marketplace of tools and our execution processes.” While the … Continue reading Creating Conveyor – Real-World Project Influences

Weekly Workflow: Diagramming and Analyzing Object Adjacencies with LunchBox

The latest version of LunchBox includes a “Sort Adjacent Brep Faces” component which can be used to quickly create customized analysis diagrams. The component works with 2D and 3D Brep geometry, opening up potential use cases to include 3D manufacturing or assembly diagrams.

Weekly Workflow: Train an Algorithm to Label Spaces for You

Labeling spaces can be a tedious process, but Machine Learning tools have the potential to give designers reprieve from manually typing in each space name. Classifier algorithms are able to reference training data and group lists of new elements into classes based on their characteristics and similarities to the data on which it was trained.