Method for automatically generating design solutions for an engineering design project

A method comprising, at a remote computer system:

• accessing a virtual model representing a design solution for an engineering design project;
• deriving a first set of language signals representing the engineering design project based on the virtual model;
• accessing a set of input parameters and a set of output characteristics for the engineering design project;
• for each input parameter in the set of input parameters:
• querying a language model for a characteristic range of values of the input parameter exhibited within historical engineering solutions correlated with the first set of language signals;
• accessing a first set of functions representing relationships between the set of input parameters and the set of output characteristics;
• linking a set of model variables in the virtual model to a subset of input parameters in the set of input parameters;
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• for each discover analysis instance in a first set of discover analysis instances:
• defining a unique combination of discover values of input parameters within corresponding characteristic ranges of the set of input parameters;
• based on the virtual model, the first set of functions, and the unique combination of discover values of input parameters, executing the discover analysis instance to calculate a set of discover values of the set of output characteristics;
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• rendering representations of the unique combination of discover values of input parameters and the set of discover values of the set of output characteristics within a user interface.

A method comprising, at a remote computer system:

• accessing a textual descriptor of an engineering design project;
• extracting a first set of language signals from the textual descriptor;
• accessing a virtual model representing design solutions for the engineering design project;
• deriving a second set of language signals based on a set of model variables within the virtual model;
• accessing a corpus of input parameters based on the first set of language signals and the second set of language signals;
• presenting the corpus of input parameters within a user interface;
• based on selection of a set of input parameters from the corpus of input parameters via the user interface, querying a language model for characteristic ranges of values of input parameters in the set of input parameters;
• accessing a function representing relationships between the set of input parameters and a set of output characteristics;
• for a first analysis instance:
• defining a first combination of values of input parameters within corresponding characteristic ranges;
• and
• based on the virtual model, the function, and the first combination of values of input parameters, executing the first analysis instance to calculate a first set of values of the set of output characteristics;
• and
• rendering a first representation of the first combination of values of input parameters and the first set of values of the set of output characteristics, from the first analysis instance, within the user interface.