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Getting Started
Quick Start Guide
See the following videos to get started with Intact.Simulation Grasshopper Plugin quickly.
Download demo files using the link below to use our example.
Link to download → intact_simulation_demo_files.zip
A. Setting Up Your First Simulation
Step 1: Load your model in Rhino 3D
- 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).
Step 2: Prepare the model for simulation
- Make copies of faces that have boundary conditions to be applied
- Note that the steps here are for a CAD file (Polysurfaces in Rhino).
Step 3: Launch Grasshopper and Intact.Simulation
- 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.
Step 4: Add a component (Geometry and Material)
- Create a component from the design geometry and specify the appropriate material
Step 5: Specify Boundary Condition
Step 5a: Restraint
- Specify the faces that are fixed
Step 5b: Load
- Specify the faces that are loaded as well as load type and load magnitude (pressure load in this case)
Step 6: Specify Simulation Resolution
- Specify the number of elements for simulation.
B. Executing Simulation and Viewing Results
Step 1: Run Simulation
- Execute simulation to solve the structural finite element problem defined previously
Step 2: View Results
- Visualize the results such as displacement and stresses as the colormap
Step 3: Post-process (deflection)
- Scale the deformation to see the deflected shape
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