Have you ever done an analysis on a lattice structure? Lattice structures tend to be difficult to mesh and computationally expensive. Homogenization is an effective way to reduce the analysis cost of lattice structures. This article introduces homogenization to elastic matrices by numerical experiments and visualization of the homogenized elastic matrices.

Have you ever performed optimization in Grasshopper? Specifically, have you used Tunny for optimization? During that time, did you ever feel that the optimization was not working well? The category of optimization called black-box optimization, which Tunny uses, has slower convergence compared to sensitivity-based optimization (such as topology optimization). If the settings are not properly configured or the problem is not suitable, the result may end up being just slightly better than random. In this article, let's look at the optimization results using Tunny with different settings.

This is the second installment of our project to think about structural mechanics while taking a walk. This time, while walking around Japanese towers, we will explain the mechanics and structural devices behind the towers and ponder the greatness of our predecessors. After reading this, you should be able to see the framework of the tower through the tower.

This is a travelogue in which our structural engineer takes four bridges in Tokyo as examples and explains their structures as he travels around the city. The scenery you usually see may look a little different. Please enjoy the idyllic atmosphere.

Karamba3d is a structural analysis plug-in that runs on top of 3D CAD Rhinoceros Grasshopper. Karamba3d is not a well-known commercial CAE like Ansys, so I am curious about its performance, However, as there is not much information on this, this article will check it on a simple model.

Our company develops various products utilizing shape processing, function calculation, and design technologies. In this article, we explain Implicit Function Modeling, one of the means of modeling geometry.

Our company develops various products utilizing shape processing, function calculation, and design technologies. In this article, we explain Implicit Function Modeling, one of the means of modeling geometry.

We continue to build our in-house software environment to advance our unique structural design. The components of the software environment are diverse, but one of them is the freely extensible geometry processing-numerical analysis environment, and we are extensively using Rhinoceros, a 3D CAD system, and its plug-in, Grasshopper, in an extended manner. In this article, I hope to write mainly about the important but rarely mentioned aspects of developing and using Grasshopper plug-ins. As someone who got hooked on Rhino+Grasshopper as a student and has been doing this kind of work ever since, I hope I can help a lot of people get started.

Nature Architects is often thought of as a company that designs for 3D printers, but in reality, Nature Architects designs for manufacturing methods commonly used in mass production (injection, press, extrusion, etc.) to improve functionality and reduce cost in ways that are not possible with conventional design. In this article, Nature Architects will introduce some of our recent projects with clients and show how we design for existing manufacturing methods.

We continue to build our in-house software environment to advance our own structural design. The components of the software environment include a wide range of commercial software and in-house FEM solvers, etc. One of these is Rhinoceros, a 3D CAD system, and its plug-in Grasshopper, which we have extended and widely We are using Rhinoceros 3D CAD and its plug-in Grasshopper extensively. There are various excellent tutorials, videos, blogs, etc., including official ones, so please refer to them for the basics. I hope to write mainly about important but rarely mentioned aspects of Grasshopper in order to extend and use Grasshopper by yourself. Those who are interested in Rhinoceros+Grasshopper 2. those who want to deepen their understanding of the internal processing of Rhinoceros+Grasshopper 3. those who want to extend Rhinoceros+Grasshopper for their own work, research, hobby, etc. 4. those who want to design and play with metamaterials. Those who want to design and play with metamaterials.