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 article considers the importance of material models in numerical analysis through the modeling of lunar soil (Regolith) and dynamic analysis of drop tests.

Is everyone using ChatGPT? Various uses and updates are making the rounds on the Internet on a regular basis, but you may not think that Rhino and Grasshopper have much to do with it. There are already plug-ins available that use ChatGPT to control Rhino and GH, though not necessarily in a stable manner. If you check how it works with your familiar software, you will feel more familiar with ChatGPT. Let's check the implementation of existing plug-ins and see how they work.

In this article we caluclated CFD by OpenFOAM as a first step to do geometry optimization.

This article introduces Tunny, Optuna's 3D CAD wrapper. We will start with an introduction of Rhinoceros, a 3D CAD software on which Tunny runs. Then, I will provide a brief overview of how I implemented Tunny. Finally, I will walk you through some design examples using Tunny, including crash safety design of a car front bumper in connection with CAE, and Human-in-the-loop optimization of vase shapes and architectural column placement.

As an example of integrating multiple components using compliant mechanisms, we will introduce the design of a folding hanger.

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.

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.

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.