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Karamba3D

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: 1112
Latest Activity: Sep 11

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.

downloads, manual:

https://manual.karamba3d.com/ or

www.food4rhino.com/app/karamba3d

examples (for Karamba3D 1.3.2):

www.karamba3d.com/examples/

release notes: 
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 ....

 

This grasshopper discussion forum is no longer maintained - please post all questions on the McNeel Forum. Thank you

 

Discussion Forum

Principal Stress Direction 5 Replies

Hello, I have a question about the principal stress direction analysis result from karamba.The first principal stress direction (PSD) is usually defined as the direction of the largest principal…Continue

Tags: direction, stress, principal

Started by X.Arthur.Ma. Last reply by William Chec Sep 11.

Industrial warehouse trusses 3 Replies

Hi,I'm modelling steel warehouses for my thesis but I'm running into problems. When specifying that the beams elements should act as trusses, it shows very large deflections at certain locations. The…Continue

Started by Niels Hofstee. Last reply by Charlie Flint Jun 20.

Telescopic movement in Karamba

Hey,I am going to analyze a kinetic structure that transforms by sliding movement like telescopic piston. However I failed to define the cirrect joint. In a simple explanation, imagin two beams (A,B)…Continue

Started by mahnaz bahremandi Feb 5.

Karamba - user problems 250 Replies

please post here in case of karamba problems !Continue

Tags: problems, faq, karamba

Started by Karamba3D. Last reply by Abraham Shkolnik Dec 22, 2022.

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Comment by Karamba3D on February 11, 2020 at 2:03am

Hi, I am moving all discussion to the user problems page as the parallel discussion is cumbersome. https://www.grasshopper3d.com/group/karamba3d/forum/topics/karamba-...

Comment by riccardo foschi on February 11, 2020 at 1:35am

It turns orange because I set one point as support two times (it's part of two groups of points one group fixes the Z movement the other one fixes every movement), but it shouldn't be a problem right? at least the dialog box says so.

Anyway the problem is similar if I decimate the mesh, I think it might be a problem of how do karamba calculate the thickness of the structure, in fusion I modelled the thickness myself in Karamba I didn't maybe it's that? however I think in fusion when he calculate the mesh he also adds inside edges to keep the two layers together when deforming, in karamba I don't think it does it am I wrong?

Comment by Karamba3D on February 11, 2020 at 1:27am

Hi Riccardo, there seems to be an issue with you definition as it turns orange. Also, may it be that your mesh is too coarse?

Comment by riccardo foschi on February 10, 2020 at 10:12am

Another question: I'm trying to reproduce the behaviour of these two structures that I observed in fusion 360 only using Karamba.

As you can see from the images the structure on the left have much less deformation, in Karamba they are almost the same what is happening here? The KAramba code is so much different from the fusion 360 one?

Comment by Karamba3D on January 7, 2020 at 1:28am

Dear xiufeng li, when internalizing structural objects in one version of Karamba3D it is sadly not possible to guarantee that they can be deserialized with another version of Karamba3D. I think this is what causes the problem here.

Best,

Clemens

Comment by xiufeng li on January 4, 2020 at 12:49pm

whats wrong with it

Comment by Karamba3D on August 20, 2019 at 12:04am

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 August 19, 2019 at 2:39pm

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.

 

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