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[Plugin] Finite Element Analysis (FEA) - Spring-mass model

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  • G Offline
    glro
    last edited by 1 Dec 2010, 19:01

    It seems that somebody is trying to write something similar

    http://sites.google.com/site/teclait/home

    the structural part is still not available... but it will probably include some finite elements program...

    @qpik said:

    Since I'm an architect I've been looking for an easy way to incorporate FEA into SU. This would add a completely new dimension to design in SU.

    After browsing through some books I found the math a bit to hard so I decided to start off with a simple spring-mass model (to be exact it's not 100% real, instead of a=F/m, s~F/m)

    [attachment=0:2f7ju4i2]<!-- ia0 -->simple_springs.rb<!-- ia0 -->[/attachment:2f7ju4i2]
    Here is a video example:
    [flash=425,344:2f7ju4i2]http://www.youtube.com/v/ojtHu1yZSUQ&hl=pl_PL&fs=1&rel=0[/flash:2f7ju4i2]

    I hope someone with strong mathematical background would take this on or help me to go on.
    What about SketchyPhysics? I tried it couple of times but I'm not sure it's suitable for this purpose.

    Kuba

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      bomastudio
      last edited by 2 Dec 2010, 12:24

      @glro said:

      It seems that somebody is trying to write something similar

      http://sites.google.com/site/teclait/home

      the structural part is still not available... but it will probably include some finite elements program...

      Yes, of course ... I'm a structural engineer .... I want to extend TECLA (see the project home

      http://sites.google.com/site/teclait/home

      to build a FEM software based on SU. Ad the moment I'm developing the Architectural modulus (that will be, with some changes, the Pre_processor).
      I'm looking for some FEM software open-source and find some:

      Calculix, GmsH, FreeFEM++ but nothing in ruby!!! Someone has news?

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        glro
        last edited by 6 Dec 2010, 16:19

        @bomastudio said:

        @glro said:

        It seems that somebody is trying to write something similar

        http://sites.google.com/site/teclait/home

        the structural part is still not available... but it will probably include some finite elements program...

        Yes, of course ... I'm a structural engineer .... I want to extend TECLA (see the project home

        http://sites.google.com/site/teclait/home

        to build a FEM software based on SU. Ad the moment I'm developing the Architectural modulus (that will be, with some changes, the Pre_processor).
        I'm looking for some FEM software open-source and find some:

        Calculix, GmsH, FreeFEM++ but nothing in ruby!!! Someone has news?

        i am afraid you won't find anything in Ruby; the language has not been used for structural analysis, as far as i know

        but it might not be a problem; you could link a program in Ruby, to another program in another language, by exchanging information through text files

        i did it between Ruby and Basic, and it worked...

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        • topic:timeago-later,2 months
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          bomastudio
          last edited by 25 Jan 2011, 08:49

          @unknownuser said:

          i am afraid you won't find anything in Ruby; the language has not been used for structural analysis, as far as i know
          but it might not be a problem; you could link a program in Ruby, to another program in another language, by exchanging information through text files
          i did it between Ruby and Basic, and it worked...

          yes, it could be done.... ๐Ÿ˜„

          But, as I'm tryng to develop a FEM engine by myself (I wrote a 2D fem program in MATLAB at University some years ago...), I need a solid matrix/linear algebra library in Ruby. Now the aim is to use it inside SU both in Windows (& Linux+wine) and OSX. I found Matrix.rb but I don't like it ... any suggestion and how use with SU?

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          • topic:timeago-later,26 days
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            tjlahey
            last edited by 20 Feb 2011, 09:01

            I've just started to use SketchUp, but I have a lot of experience in writing FEA code. One thought I had was to link SketchUp with FEMhub which is being developed with a web-based interface so it could be used in a web view via a plugin. They are working on 1D, 2D, and 3D solvers. Their web interface is a bit much for a plug-in, but it's probably a good place to start.

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            • topic:timeago-later,3 months
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              sbolin
              last edited by 8 May 2011, 07:25

              @bomastudio said:

              @glro said:

              It seems that somebody is trying to write something similar

              http://sites.google.com/site/teclait/home

              the structural part is still not available... but it will probably include some finite elements program...

              Yes, of course ... I'm a structural engineer .... I want to extend TECLA (see the project home

              http://sites.google.com/site/teclait/home

              to build a FEM software based on SU. Ad the moment I'm developing the Architectural modulus (that will be, with some changes, the Pre_processor).
              I'm looking for some FEM software open-source and find some:

              Calculix, GmsH, FreeFEM++ but nothing in ruby!!! Someone has news?

              Very interesting idea to have a FEA ruby. I'll be watching to see if anything develops on that front. I sort of agree with the general idea that it may be better to write a translator from SU to an existing FE program, but if it can be done within SU all the better. It does seem like a huge amount of work, though ๐Ÿ˜ฎ

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              • topic:timeago-later,about a year
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                bomastudio
                last edited by 2 Jul 2012, 09:24

                Update: I found (thanks to Google!!) this project

                Link Preview Image
                Frame3DD - Static and Dynamic Structural Analysis of 2D and 3D Frames

                Free software for static and dynamic analysis of 3D moment-resisting elastic frames and trusses. Written in ANSI C. Source code includes: frame analysis with elastic and geometric stiffness, LDL' decomposition, LU decomposition, Newton-Raphson iteration, sub-space iteration, Stodola iteration, static condensation, Guyan reduction, dynamic condensation, Matlab support and spreadsheet support. Graphical output and mode shape animation via Gnuplot.

                favicon

                (frame3dd.sourceforge.net)

                released under GPL for Linux (wow!!!), Mac and Windows.
                It seems very good...... now I'm asking to the author if Frame3DD supports rigid link to model unaligned elements (colums and beams as in the following image

                https://dl.dropbox.com/u/18236667/Schermata del 2012-07-02 10%3A31%3A55.png

                https://dl.dropbox.com/u/18236667/rigid_offsets.gif

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                • topic:timeago-later,about a year
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                  solidbeat
                  last edited by 26 Nov 2013, 15:30

                  Was wondering if there's been any development on this.
                  Through the last post i found the following.
                  http://rhin.crai.archi.fr/rld/plugin_details.php?id=1008
                  But I'm just not good enough at this sort of thing to get it to work...

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                  • topic:timeago-later,about a year
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                    qpik
                    last edited by 6 May 2015, 09:28

                    Hi guys! I've been away for a while. Anything new in the topic?

                    I'm trying the Frame3D and found this video of another combination - SketchUp/GoSimulate: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCVoa1u-9BM

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                    • Q Offline
                      qpik
                      last edited by 6 May 2015, 09:40

                      Seems like someone made it ๐Ÿ˜„

                      Edit: Actually no. Should've watched it until the end. So there's still a niche.

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                      • topic:timeago-later,4 years
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                        anar
                        last edited by 26 Feb 2019, 20:04

                        "but at least SU could be used as the CAD modeller for GMSH?"
                        (from a previous post)

                        The "Meshkit" plugin from Peter V seems to do that.

                        Did someone try it ?
                        Because each time I launch SU (SU2015 Make or SU8) I have errors like "Error Loading File C:/Users/PC/AppData/Roaming/SketchUp/SketchUp 2015/SketchUp/Plugins/pv_sketchytetgentools/pv_sketchytetgentools_class_loader.rbe"
                        etc.

                        I haven't found any information about this plugin on the forum.
                        So I post here and hope someone might help with my installation problem.

                        Cheers.

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