A. Form Finding

Aim

The aim of this week is to understand the basics of the force density methods, to form find of a cable net in its pure prestress state with the force density method and to visualise the results.

Learning Objectives

you will learn the principles of the force density method for the form finding of a cable net:

pageA0. Force Density Method

you will learn how to import geometry from Rhino:

pageA1. Import

you will learn how to create a cable-net with custom attributes and form find it with the force density method:

pageA2. Form Finding

you will learn how to visualise it in Rhino:

pageA3. Visualisation

Files

Please download the Pyhton and Rhino files for this week. The Python files are structured in step-by-step files, so in case you could not follow or we just examine the code together, you can move to the next file with the intermediate step without having to copy code.

219KB

csd_cablenets_A.zip