Simulate Early, Simulate Often... In Rhino
New Architectural User...
Hi Scan-and-Solve team,
I'm enjoying experimenting with this great software, I'm surprised how intuitive it is!
This has great potential for being implemented into my workflow, however i do have a couple of questions thus far;
1. Will there be any further additions to the standard materials list? I was hoping for a list of structural woods such as Oak, Douglas Fir, Cedar, etc. We do a lot of work with gridshell roofs and glu-lam structures at our practice...
2. Also, is it possible to select multiple solids to analyze? For example if i wanted to analyze a wooden structure than was held together with steel ties? Can FEA display the interactions of different materials?
Please excuse any naivety on my part, this is quite new to me, but I'll keep practicing!
Many Thanks,
David.
Glenn Howells Architects.
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Permalink Reply by Michael Freytag on
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David,
Thanks for the encouraging comments.
Regarding your questions:
1. Wood is a material that is a bit challenging to model because its properties vary so much with grain orientation. In principle, it can be done, but it will take time -a UI for specifying grain orientation must be designed and implemented and many internal algorithms must be extended and tested to take into account the grain orientation. We'll get there eventually.
2. Analysis on multiple parts is not currently supported. As with modeling wood, we'll get there eventually. Some FEA tools will allow modeling the interactions of multiple parts, but none of these FEA tools are for the faint of heart (or wallet).
~Michael
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Permalink Reply by David Wood on
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Michael,
Thanks for your reply. I understand it was asking for a lot, but when you have even the most rudimentary wood materials at some point, i'd appreciate the opportunity to test them. As regards grain orientation, could there be a default setting that ensured the grain was always set to run along the longest length of the geometry? That would mirror a real-world use of the material.
Am i correct in thinking that wooden materials and multiple parts will go hand-in-hand in order to get a true result of elements with opposing structural properties? Or could there possibly be a way of assigning multiple Face directions of a whole PolySurface?
Thanks Again,
Look forward to seeing Scan-and-Solve progress,
David.
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