Karamba Form Finding

[@leslieblake9]

Why am I only just finding this tutorial now!? I love this!!! And how clean you make it all.

[@AlphonsoPeluso]

Leslie Blake I’m glad that you found it! Thanks for the comment and feedback.

[@leslieblake9]

Alphonso Peluso being a novice to rhino and it the various plugins, I found your tutorial really straight forward and simple to follow. Moreover, I like how you explain it all, not to technical but technical enough.

[@AlphonsoPeluso]

Leslie Blake Thank you! Best of luck in your learning!

[@charleyhan646]

Great Tutorial that helped me to understand the fundamentals

[@AlphonsoPeluso]

I’m glad to help! 😃

[@constantinosschinas4503]

thanks for the tutorial. you could also *find mesh corners, instead of copy pasting* and manually dragging. way safer, ie. you would switch from a rectangle to a triangle to a polygon or free bezier shape or even imported mesh and still have same results with not a single extra click.

[@iyellalot]

Hi

[@iyellalot]

You sound like someone who know stuff, I’d like to be friends with you.

[@jjsolly1986]

Really handy tutorial on set-up so thanks for posting. But I guess I'd ask what "form" are you finding? Are the nodal forces posts for support? And in a shell surely the moment restraint to the nodes is less than ideal as it gives negative curvature that could buckle? Or is it about finding a cool shape rather than one with a structural rationale?

[@riccardofoschi]

Very handy, however double curvature surfaces can not be unfolded into plane correctly, thus the paper model is 100% wrong, the squish tool in rhino approximate and relax the whole surface to force it into plane even if it's not possible.

[@AlphonsoPeluso]

Riccardo Foschi yes thank you. I understand it’s an approximation.

[@nivedpoladia1562]

my mesh to shell is not working in karamba 3d please tell me what to do , it would be a great help ?

[@AlphonsoPeluso]

@@nivedpoladia1562 Are you using a trial version?

[@willknowsright9615]

Thank you so much

[@AlphonsoPeluso]

William Beal you’re welcome!

[@auliarahman353]

Why i can't find the point loads capsule in the grassoppher ?

[@sebastians.915]

just take the "load (karamba)" capsule, you can now switch the "gravity" button to "point"

[@eduardosoares2629]

Hi, my "analyze model" keeps giving me this error... Singular Stiffness Matrix, cannot solve static system. Do you know what I did wrong?

[@eduardosoares2629]

Nevermind. I didnt check the rotation forces in the support component. Thats why. Great tutorial. Thx

[@AnaPaulaLima11]

Hi, great tutorial but my Grasshopper don't show the Point Load (Karamba 3D). And I've the student license. How to do this form without it?

[@bjornsulzbach1820]

@Ana Paula Lima Did you find a solution to your problem? Did it work out with your student license?

[@AnaPaulaLima11]

@@bjornsulzbach1820 yes, it works. It's because i've a new version and them this plugin stays in another place.

[@bjornsulzbach1820]

@@AnaPaulaLima11 nice one. I am about to start with Rhino hopefully designing domes and vaults....wish me luck :)

[@gianpedro]

I also have a student version, how did you solve this? i still cant find a way to apply point loads

[@omarelnagar1155]

Hi, this is very useful thanks for sharing this. I just had a quick question. How come the load determines the shape of the shell? Also do you have any tutorial for gridshells?

[@andreasmaragakis4707]

Here you can think of the applied point load as wind and the shell as a piece of cloth. The point load moving in the +z direction goes upward and affects the part of the cloth that correlates with the load's x and y values.

[@ivangalik7848]

This video seems like finding optimal shape of mesh which would be only in compression but its actually just an analysis of a plate which undegoes deformation :((