She installed it and watched the first model breathe. A pedestrian bridge she’d sketched months ago came alive, nodes and beams assembling like constellations. Without server queues, she iterated quickly—refining stiffness, tweaking live loads, testing wind gusts. The portable’s speed let her chase ideas instead of waiting. She could run parametric sweeps between sips of coffee, replay animations at will, explore failure modes the lab’s schedule never permitted.

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