Users:PrePostProcessing/RhinoTeDA

Revision as of 10:27, 6 March 2017

TeDA (Towards enhanced Design and Analysis) is a plug-in in Rhinoceros^[1] for preprocessing of Carat++. It is developed with C#. It can create input files for Carat and Kratos.

TeDA Plug-In

The plug-in is able to assign:

• elements to surfaces and curves ( Currently, Membrane_NURBS, Shell_NURBS_KL, BRep_Edge_Cord, Cable_NURBS, Beam_3D_NURBS, BRep_Edge_Beam)
• refinement for surfaces and curves
• supports
• loads
• custom material
• custom analyses (FORMFINDING, STA_GEO_NONLIN)
• custom output

Furthermore, there is a visualization of the assigned properties.

Installation

User

The Plug-In TeDA is easily installed:

• Open Rhinoceros
• Open Rhino-Properties by clicking on File -> Properties...
• Click on Plug-Ins in the left hand column
• Click on Install
• Choose TeDASharp.rhp in your folder
• Click 'OK' in the Rhino-Properties

In order to update TeDA, only the TeDASharp.rhp has to be replaced by a new one in your folder.

Developer

• Get access to the repository on GitLab
• Install Grasshopper and open it once in Rhinoceros by writing Grasshopper in the command line of Rhino
• Set the references in the project file. (Maybe you have to remove the old ones and add them again)
  • RhinoCommon: C:\Program Files\Rhinoceros 5.0 (64-bit)\System\RhinoCommon.dll
  • Grasshopper: C:\Users\UserX\AppData\Roaming\McNeel\Rhinoceros\5.0\Plug-ins\Grasshopper\x.x.xx.x\Grasshopper.dll

User's Guide

The plug-in GUI can be started with TeDA_OpenPanel.

References

1. ↑ http://www.rhino3d.com