This greatly improves collaboration and can lead to better products.įinally, with the upcoming release of new features that will enhance interoperability between the ShapeDiver platform and various CAD and design environments, the future of 3D product configurators looks bright. Moreover, ShapeDiver’s user-friendly interface enables non-technical stakeholders to take part in a product’s design by using simple controls such as range sliders, text inputs, dropdown lists, and colours.

As demonstrated in this article, ShapeDiver is increasingly being adopted by the AEC industry due to the wide adoption of Grasshopper, a popular parametric design tool in this industry. In conclusion, ShapeDiver is a powerful platform that empowers engineers to create and share 3D product configurators with stakeholders across various industries. In addition to linear and nonlinear static analysis, modal analysis, and time history analysis, Karamba 3D also provides powerful optimization tools for finding optimal structural configurations based on a variety of performance criteria. With Karamba 3D, engineers can perform complex structural analysis on their digital models directly within Grasshopper.

In short, Karamba 3D is a structural analysis plugin for Grasshopper, a parametric design tool for Rhino 3D. I wrote a separate article about Karamba 3D. This is a free web application for calculating and optimizing the design of an “Industrial Warehouse” type metal structure in accordance with Eurocode provisions based on a Grasshopper algorithm that uses Karamba 3D as a structural analysis engine and ShapeDiver as a web visualization engine.

I had the pleasure of testing Optinave, which is an online tool created by Construsoft, a leading Spanish supplier and developer of BIM software. Let’s show in a practical example how this plugin can be used by Structural Engineers.

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