Karamba3D

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Karamba3D is a parametric structural engineering tool which provides accurate analysis of spatial trusses, frames and shells.

Current Version: 1.3.2 (July 9 2019)

Website: http://www.karamba3d.com
Location: Vienna
Members: 1027
Latest Activity: 22 hours ago

Karamba3D is an interactive, parametric finite element program. It lets you analyze the response of 3-dimensional beam and shell structures under arbitrary loads.

Karamba3D is being developed by Clemens Preisinger in cooperation with Bollinger und Grohmann ZTGmbH in Vienna.

Download a free trial now! Licenses for educational or commercial purposes can be purchased at www.karamba3d.com/buy.

Stay up to date with the development of Karamba3D by joining our Grasshopper group where you can post your queries, requests or issues for Karamba3D.

downloads, manual:

www.karamba3d.com/download or

www.food4rhino.com/app/karamba3d

examples (for Karamba3D 1.3.1):

www.karamba3d.com/examples/

update report/known bugs:
www.grasshopper3d.com/group/karamba3d/page/new-features-and-bug-fixes

scripting guide & examples:

https://www.karamba3d.com/download/#manual

repository with unit tests:

https://github.com/karamba3d/K3D_tests

Here a beam structure based on stream-lines with bending moments:

More details, manual, examples and download ....

Discussion Forum

finding suitable optimizer 2 Replies

Hello everyone,I need help to choose the best optimizer in grasshopper for my case.I want to optimize a high rise building structure ( modeled in Karamba ). This is a complicated code, and there are…Continue

Started by saba. Last reply by saba 22 hours ago.

Karamba Cross Section Optimization with multiple different Beam Ids

Hello,I'm using Karamba for my master thesis project and I've been struggling with one thing: I've separated each kind of beam element with different elemIds in 4 groups (beams, pillars, bracing1,…Continue

Tags: opticrosec, optimize cross section, karamba

Started by Adolpho Meirelles Aug 17.

How to define 3D Objects in Karamba 4 Replies

Hello. I have a problem in defining 3D Objects in Karamba. What I am trying to do, is that I have 3D scanned a few Irregular stones. So I have their 3D meshes in grasshopper. Then I am trying to…Continue

Tags: #irregular_object, #stones, #structural_analysis, #Karamba3D

Started by Amir Arsalan Tahouni. Last reply by Amir Arsalan Tahouni Aug 13.

Beam deflection due shell/mesh contraction 8 Replies

Hello everyone,Im a mechanical engineering student and right now and researching about elastic and plastic deformation in 3D models printed in strained elastic clothes (as lycra or spandex). In order…Continue

Started by Tomas Peralta. Last reply by Tomas Peralta Aug 6.

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Comment by Karamba3D on Tuesday: Hi Xavier,

you need to update your Rhino to the latest release in order to run Karamba. The latest Karamba release can also be found on our website.

Comment by Xavier Ramirez on Monday: I am getting an error when trying to open a grasshopper file with kangaroo and karamba components. I am new to both grasshopper and karamba and was wondering how to better understand the error message and where I can download or access the correct plugins.

So far I am not able to find the versions of the plugins mentioned in either of the error boxes.

Thank you!

Grasshopper loading errors listed below

Object: MeshMachineComponent3 (level 1)
{
Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation.
TargetInvocationException
}

Object: MeshMachineComponent3 (level 2)
{
Could not load file or assembly 'Plankton, Version=0.3.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null' or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified.
FileNotFoundException
}

Object: KangarooA (level 1)
{
Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation.
TargetInvocationException
}

Object: KangarooA (level 2)
{
Could not load file or assembly 'KangarooLib, Version=0.0.9.9, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null' or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified.
FileNotFoundException
}

Object: KangarooZombie (level 1)
{
Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation.
TargetInvocationException
}

Object: KangarooZombie (level 2)
{
Could not load file or assembly 'KangarooLib, Version=0.0.9.9, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null' or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified.
FileNotFoundException
}

Comment by Karamba3D on August 6, 2019 at 4:45pm: A new scripting guide with examples for Karamba 1.3.2 can be downloaded from https://www.karamba3d.com/download/#manual.

Comment by Karamba3D on June 9, 2019 at 7:24am: All Karamba3D licenses issued so far work for Karmba3D 1.3.1.

Comment by Pedro Abejaro on June 8, 2019 at 1:12pm: I have updated to Rhino 6.14.19118.. Before this i used karamba3d 1.2.2 in a early version of rhino6. My question is if it is possible to update my student license from Karamba3d 1.2.2 to 1.3.1? the main reason for this is because i want to check KarambaIDEA plugin and it is only available for Karamba 1.3.1

Thank you in advance!

Comment by Karamba3D on May 2, 2019 at 3:05am: We are glad to be once again hosting a Karamba3D workshop in Vienna.

July 3-5 2018

Early bird rates until May 10.

Details can be found at https://karamba3d.com/workshops

Comment by Karamba3D on April 16, 2019 at 1:46pm: Hi Wilinton, could you please open a new discussion for the topic? There it would be easier to communicate.
You definition is quite large and complex. For debugging try the divide and conquer method: Split up the definition into meaningful parts and test the parts individually.

Best,

Clemens

Comment by Wilinton Felipe Colunche Núñez on April 14, 2019 at 10:20pm

Hi all. I am modeling a metal cover, but I have designed it separately (beams and belts separately); I've done that because I designed all the coverage together and then I designed it in the sap or etabs program and compared the results and they were very different (I did not have this design ordered, but I did it in a quick way to check, so I did not I upload said file).

My question is how can I get equal results in both grasshopper (karamba) and in Sap or Etabs; what conditions should I take into account to model the entire coverage and what should be considered in the beam-belt nodes (intersection node)?.

IMetal%20Coverage.gh upload my file in grasshopper where I design beam and strap separately, but the visualization is of all coverage. I hope you can help me. Thank you.

Comment by Karamba3D on March 26, 2019 at 2:11pm: Hi Lu,

I will take a look at it. Best C.

Comment by jiaxing on March 23, 2019 at 12:58pm: dear Clemens and Robert, miss you two so much, It's me Lu

So further I go in Beijing with the ability taking your two great help in Vienna

May I ask a little thing, the 4 BESO in karamba rhino6 testExamble is not work, is there anyway to get those download to see how the example wors?