Getting Started

• Installation & Activating/Migrating License
• Supported Rhino Models
• Basic Operation
• Grasshopper for New Users

See the following videos to get started with Intact.Simulation Grasshopper Plugin quickly.
Note: the videos utilize Rhino 7 so there may be some minor discrepancies, but the workflow remains consistent

Download demo files using the link below to use our example.

Link to download
* Legacy * Link to download (for Rhino 7)

• Open Rhino 3D and load your design
• For this quick guide, start with a B-rep (surface meshes like STL require a slightly different Step 2)
• You can also open the “Bracket.3dm” file (in the demo files linked above).

• Make copies of faces that have boundary conditions to be applied
• Note that the steps here are for a CAD file (Polysurfaces in Rhino).

• Get started by launching Grasshopper. Type “Grasshopper” in the Command entry box
• You can also open the “video demo.gh” file (in the demo files linked above) within Grasshopper.

• Create a component from the design geometry and specify the appropriate material
• Note you can also add blocks by double clicking on the canvas (See Tips and Tricks)

• Specify the faces that are fixed

• Specify the faces that are loaded as well as load type and load magnitude (pressure load in this case)
• Loads are in MKS unit system (Pa for Pressure)

• Specify the number of elements for simulation.

• Execute simulation to solve the structural finite element problem defined previously

• Visualize the results such as displacement and stresses as the colormap

• Scale the deformation to see the deflected shape