Adaptive everything

We <3 the Geometry Gym Plugins for Grasshopper Grasshopper-designed roof of the Al Menna Sports Complex in Iraq. The smart structural interpreter (ssi) tools for Grasshopper changed the way that we engineers look at modeling. We first tested the ssi plugin in 2010, when we were searching for the fastest possible way to design a stadium roof structure with SAP. Our challenge was to submit a detailed set of drawings for a competition proposal for the fabric roof system of the Al Menaa Sports Complex in Iraq. We spent three days at the offices of 360 Architects , sitting together to generate a parametric model of the roof that would allow us to study different design scenarios, both from an architectural and structural perspective. On day four, we used the ssiSAP interpreter to assign structural material properties to our wireframe geometry, and then to ‘bake’ this into SAP to run analyses. The analysis in SAP is set up relatively quickly for a project such as this – the bulk o...

1. SAP2000 - Bounding Box Algorithm  2. SAP2000 - Bounding Box Model 3. SAP2000 - ShellStructure - Algorithm 4. SAP2000 - ShellStructure - Model 5. SAP2000 - SpaceStructure - Algorithm 6. SAP2000 - SpaceStructure - Model 7. SAP2000 - ReadDoam + Decomposition 8. SAP2000 - ReadShell + Decomposition 9. SAP2000 - RunAnalysis-ReadResult 10. SAP2000 - Read_Edit_AddGroup  11. SAP2000 - Read_Edit_AddLoadCase Overview DynamoSAP is an open-source project and is currently available on Dynamo’s package manager . We developed the project in C# using Visual Studio, and tested it with Dynamo 0.7.5 and SAP2000 version 16. The package prescribes a few common workflows, which are outlined in the package’s sample files. The library provides a wide range of opportunities for automation of typical tasks in SAP, such as: a. Creating a structural model. The package allows users to generate struct...