Session 1.3
Double Lab: Parametric Structural Design with Karamba3D
Synopsis:
Using Karamba3D you can create parametric structural models. Often our colleagues and project partners are not accustomed to the Grasshopper environment. Therefore it is important to establish quick workflows to exchange data that is created in Karamba3D. Learn how to communicate and collaborate on structural design with ease.
Learning Objectives:
1. Learn how to setup a structural model in Karamba3D, that can be easily exchanged and shared on various other platforms
2. Efficiently export/import models from different softwares to perform a quick analysis in Karamba
3. Perform a simple optimisation in Karamba3D
Body:
In order to harness the full potential of digital information management, the AEC industry has developed highly integrated computational tools which exchange data via standardised interfaces such as IFC. Within structural engineering offices a great number of programs – each geared towards a specific range of applications – help to solve the tasks faced in day to day’s work. Interoperability thus forms the key to efficient digital workflows within an office and when it comes to communicating results to architects, project partners and clients.
This workshop showcases examples of how the Finite Element program Karamba3D can be used to parametrically create, evaluate and efficiently integrate structural models into an existing environment of structural computation tools. Together with third party plugins such as Geometry Gym, these structural models can be easily exchanged between different softwares and parties.
– Setting up a basic structural analysis in Karamba3D
– Performing a simple cross section optimisation of the structure
– Export the model from Karamba3D into an IFC format to be imported into Revit
– Export the model from Karamba3D into other standard FE program such as Space Gass, Strand 7, ETABS, Robot and SCIA for detailed analysis and code checks
– Import an IFC model into Karamba3D to perform a structural analysis