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Guides & Processes


Introduction

Installation

Preparation

Change log

2026.09 update (改修内容)

Components detail


Reading from Rhino

PreProcess

Utility

Visualization

Analysis

Tutorial


Simple beam in Rhino viewport

Simple 2D frame

Allowable stress design of steel building

Shape&Topology Optimization of Truss Bridge

Examples


Simple Parametric Cantilever

Simple Beam with Parametric Joint

Comparison of rigid frame structure and arch structure

Structural analysis of a spherical lattice shell

Example of considering the stiffness balance in the plane direction

Example of allowable stress design for RC structures

Example of prescribed displacement analysis

Example of allowable stress design for timber structures

Example of allowable stress design for steel structures

Shape optimization of shell structures with pinned support at 4 corners

Column arrangement optimization for structural support of a free-form RC shell generated from a triangular Bézier surface.

Structural Analysis and Optimization

Example of geometrically nonlinear analysis of a ring truss with pretension

Example of nonlinear time-history analysis (damped steel frame and base-isolated building)

Example of a built-up timber beam (screwed layers, springs and Newton solver)

Example of an RC wall building (壁式RC: limit strength calculation and allowable stress design)

Example of floor loads and wind loads on walls (f_load / fx_load: edges without beams, a pentagon, wind beams)

Example of staged geometrically nonlinear analysis of a tensegrity unit (SETS)

Example of staged geometrically nonlinear analysis of a tensegrity pavilion (SETS)

Example of pile design (steel office building: precast concrete piles / cast-in-place piles / steel pipe piles)

Example of integrated pile model (RC wall building / mixed structure: 1F RC wall + 2F timber)

Example of a steel building on piles (pilotis, column-pile joints, haunched beams)

Example of an RC frame with shear walls (ASD, pushover, time-history)