{"id":5514,"date":"2024-11-07T11:38:03","date_gmt":"2024-11-07T10:38:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nextfem.it\/it\/?page_id=5514"},"modified":"2024-12-03T08:47:23","modified_gmt":"2024-12-03T07:47:23","slug":"grasshopper-plugin","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.nextfem.it\/it\/grasshopper-plugin\/","title":{"rendered":"Grasshopper plugin"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n
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Grasshopper<\/strong> plugin<\/h2>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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for NextFEM Designer & Server<\/h5>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Our brand-new Grasshopper plugin allows to exchange data with NextFEM Designer or NextFEM Server through NextFEM API<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It is available on Rhino PackageManager or in Food4Rhino<\/strong><\/a>. Continue reading for manual installation.<\/p>\n

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Installation<\/h4>\n

The NextFEM plugin for Grasshopper requires NextFEM Designer installed on the system, and was specifically designed for Rhino 8.<\/p>\n

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The .gha<\/em> file can be placed alternatively:<\/p>\n

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Then, start Rhino and Grasshopper. You should see a new ribbon bar named “NextFEM”.<\/p>\n

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Usage<\/h4>\n

Prerequisite<\/strong><\/p>\n

If you’re going to use the Grasshopper plugin with our current installation of NextFEM Designer, REST API server must be active.<\/p>\n

Before to start, open NextFEM Designer, select the Plugins ribbon bar and click on REST API server<\/strong>. When the small server window is displayed, you can safely close it.<\/p>\n

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Base COMPONENTS<\/h5>\n

One of the base components is required to use any other component from other groups<\/span> (e.g. Ops).<\/p>\n

NextFEM export<\/strong> allows to export the current Rhino model to Designer or towards a Server, or even to a .NXF file. This command converts Curves in beam elements and Meshes (no BRep) in shell elements, finally merging overlapped nodes.<\/p>\n

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Input paramers:<\/em><\/p>\n

– (optional) Filename: string specifying the path for saving the .NXF model<\/p>\n

– (optional) Server: string containing the NextFEM API server address. Default is http:\/\/localhost:5151<\/p>\n

Output parameters:<\/em><\/p>\n

– Nodes: list of exported nodes ID<\/p>\n

– Elements: list of exported elements ID<\/p>\n

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NextFEM Live model<\/strong> permits to exchange data with the model opened in NextFEM Designer.<\/p>\n

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Input paramers:<\/em><\/p>\n

– (optional) Server: string containing the NextFEM API server address. Default is http:\/\/localhost:5151<\/p>\n

Output parameters:<\/em><\/p>\n

– Nodes: list of nodes ID<\/p>\n

– Elements: list of elements ID<\/p>\n

– Sections: list of sections ID<\/p>\n

– Materials: list of materials ID<\/p>\n

– SelNodes: list of currently selected nodes in NextFEM Designer viewport<\/p>\n

– SelElems: list of currently selected elements in NextFEM Designer viewport<\/p>\n

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OPS COMPONENTS<\/h5>\n

This group contains all the possible operations with the model data. Typically, such components requires as input the parameters supplied by the a Base component.<\/p>\n

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  • Element data<\/strong>: takes as input element IDs and returns various information about the elements
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  • Node: takes as input a list of node IDs and returns a vector with the coordinates of each node.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

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