For 90 seconds, Navisworks thought. It considered 14,672 possible re-route options. It consulted the . Finally, it highlighted a solution in green.
Crunch. The simulation played out the collision in slow motion. The brace would shatter the balcony before the caulking even dried. Navisworks Manage
The software had found a 3.5-degree rotation in the brace's lower node. By angling the steel away from the building and adding a custom-forged knuckle joint, the brace could clear the balcony by 14 inches. It even generated a —a hybrid design that no human had imagined. Act III: The 3D Resolution Marcus frowned. "That knuckle joint doesn't exist in any catalog." For 90 seconds, Navisworks thought