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briangwalker/TrussExplorer

A structure project to support the weight of knowledge, our two textbooks, on a balsa wood truss. Has 2D and 3D simulation and analysis. Project was coded with Claude and the backbone of the code was from my UIUC SE 310 Professor Yiwen Dong.

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