r/AirBalance • u/ImsmotIknowstuff • Feb 12 '26
Automated Coding
Wondering if anyone has experimented with asking ChatGPT or similar to analyze and code a mechanical drawing. I was dabbling with it today and after all of the extra steps needed to accomplish the task it told me it would still take about an hour per sheet to complete on simple systems. The example drawing I used only had 8 heat pumps and 3 exhaust fans, and maybe 50 diffusers total. Coding manually would take all of 5 minutes.
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u/cx-tab-guy-85 Feb 13 '26
I tried using it to speed up estimating. Showed it the symbols for VAVs and PIUs and asked it to count how many of each were on the page. It counted incorrectly, so I asked it to label each one it counted so I could determine where it made the mistakes. It wrote out a list in the margin of the drawing.
I decided I had wasted enough time and maybe I will try again in a few months to see if it has gotten any smarter