Live, collaborative, and extensible calculations for structural engineers
STRIDE is a modern integrated design environment for structural engineers. With it, calculations sit at the heart of projects, making increased quality, agility, and better managed complexity possible with better technology.
Structured, live calculations should be at the heart of every project
Calculations don't belong in a stale PDF or a cumbersome spreadsheet. They should flow in a structured way and be evergreen, growing with the project through each iteration. Write your calculations as functions or templates and do more with them than ever before.
Incremental and collaborative reviews over a single, concentrated point-in-time review
Collaborate with your peers and review each other's work incrementally with comments and approvals. Huge, point-in-time design reviews are costly and frustrating, but with continuous smaller reviews, errors can be caught earlier and more engineers can learn collaboratively with a clear project history as a bonus.
Integrations and extensions over trying to do everything
Integrations with other tools will be critical to enable continuity in the calculations. Between first party and community driven integrations/extensions, the possibilities are endless. FEM integrations, detail sketching, simple beam analysis, section databases, and more become possible.
We need to take a proactive role in shaping LLMs and AI for use in structural engineering
Context-aware autocompletions, error and type checking, and maybe even design generation may be possible with the use of AI tools. We want to push the boundaries of what we can do today so that we can meet the challenges of the future.