MechFoundry: an AI operator runs structural analyses of free-form objects from their name

Nikolaos Bouklas and co-authors release MechFoundry, an agentic loop with bespoke software that automates structural analyses of free-form objects without a human in the loop. From the object's name, an AI operator (Claude Code) drives text-to-3D shape generation, adaptive octree mesh extraction on the GPU, placement of supports, loads and materials, and nonlinear neo-Hookean finite-element analysis with the diffuse Nitsche method, implemented in NVIDIA Warp. The post gives the operator cost per object at API price as about $1.30 with Opus 5.5, $0.52 with Sonnet 5.5 and $0.15 with Haiku 5.5. Because the solver is differentiable, objects can be shape- and topology-optimised: 100 shape-optimisation iterations of an example table took 4 minutes.

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