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Simulating basic tensile structures in Kangaroo

Simulating basic tensile structures in Kangaroo

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Simulating basic tensile structures in Kangaroo

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Tensile structures are a really interesting idea from architecture and design for creating very strong structures from thin, flexible, lightweight materials, often fabrics. Let's take a look at using Kangaroo in Grasshopper to simulate a tensile structure. I've got the exercise file 004-tensile-structures-begin open in Grasshopper, and just a blank file open in Rhino. So I've already done a little bit of setup here. I'm starting with a Mesh Plane component, so that's just a normal built-in Grasshopper component making a mesh plane. And I'm leaving all the settings on the default. You could use whatever units here. You could use whatever size of a mesh plane you like. The results will be pretty much the same. And what we're doing here first is isolating the corners of that mesh. So I'm using this MeshCorners component, and you can find that under the Mesh submenu in the Kangaroo2 component tab. So that's just basically pulling the four corners out of that mesh. Now, I've already gone…

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