GluLamb Grasshopper3d Plugin for modelling free-form timber structures

GluLamb

GluLamb by Tom Svilans is a toolkit for modelling free-form timber structures in Rhino 6. This software has come out of the PhD project Integrated material practice in free-form timber structures.

Impala Grasshopper3d Plugin

Impala

Impala by dcascaval replicates common bottleneck Grasshopper operations with a focus on efficiency, allowing complex scripts and static simulations embedded within Grasshopper to make use of all available computational capacity.

Numerical Geometry Grasshopper3d Plugin

Numerical Geometry

Numerical Geometry Utility by NJ Namju Lee, NJStudio is an add on for Grasshopper3d for analysis. It’s an outcome from a research in Computaional Design.

TIE (Tensegrity Integration Element) Grasshopper3d Plugin

TIE

The TIE (Tensegrity Integration Element) by son2yyk is developed to help utilizing Tensegrity system. This tool resolved the issue of adapting the tensegrity structure to the building.

Digitally Conscious Design From the Ideation of a Lamp to its Fabrication as a Case Study

Conscious Design

This research by Carlos L. Marcos, Mara Capone and Emanuela Lanzara tries to reflect on the idea of digitally conscious design, from the inception to the manufacturing process of a prototype.

Jellyfish Grasshopper3d Plugin for Implicit modeling

Jellyfish

Jellyfish by Smei is an Implicit modeling plugin for Rhino Grasshopper. It utilized Ryan Schmidt(author of Autodesk Meshmixer)’s brilliant open-source geometry3Sharp library. The goal of the plugin is to provide an intuitive and fast way to model, manipulate and visualize implicit geometries.

Squid Grasshopper3d Plugin

Squid

Squid by Mateusz Zwierzycki enables to create drawings using Grasshopper. By utilizing Data Trees it can also render animations (as .png sequences). A marriage between raster and vector imaging, bounded with parametric interface.

Culebra Grasshoppe3d Plugin

Culebra

Culebra.NET by Luis Quinones is a 2D|3D Multi Object Behavior library written in C# (Wrapper around Culebra Java library) focused on hybrid system interactions with custom Visualization, Data, and performance features.

Starfish Grasshopper3d Plugin 2D Pattern

Starfish

Starfish by Michael Weizmann is a Grasshopper plugin that allows parametric generation of various patterns. It focuses on 2d tessellations that can be used to create structural systems based on topological interlocking principle. 

Tundra Grasshopper3d Plugin

Tundra

Tundra by Miroljub is a one stop grasshopper plugin for generating complex noise patterns. Includes noise generators as well as lots of useful methods such as filters, modifiers, combiners, transformations. 

Fractals Grasshopper3d Plugin

Fractals

Fractals is a plugin for Grasshopper that allows users to create 3 different types of mathematically generated fractals.

OctaTree Grasshopper3d Plugin for voxelization

OctaTree

OctaTree plugin by samalika3 includes 3 capsules. They provide the algorithm of voxelization, based on octree structure. It works much faster then, f.e. creating the definition with a 3D array of points. 

SkinDesigner Grasshopper3d Plugin Parametric Facade

SkinDesigner

SkinDesigner by sgaray enables the rapid generation of facade geometries from building massing surfaces and repeating, user-defined panels.

Hummingbird Grasshopper3d Plugin Revit

Hummingbird

Hummingbird by Mario Guttman is a set of Grasshopper components that facilitate the creation of Revit native geometry. This process exports basic geometric properties and parameter data to CSV text files which are used to create Revit BIM geometry.

Chromodoris Grasshopper3d Plugin

Chromodoris

The goal of this library by camnewnham is to provide efficient and simple functionality to extend the creation, usage and display of meshes.

Starling mesh tools Grasshopper3d Plugin

Starling

Starling mesh tools by Mateusz Zwierzycki. These components enable mesh parametrization, so it behaves like a surface – you can evaluate points at any place etc. 

Shortest Walk Grasshopper3d Plugin

Shortest Walk

The ShortestWalk add-on for Grasshopper exposes one component which, given a network of curves and a list of lines, calculates the shortest route from line start point to line end points in a network. It is based on a topology calculator and the A* search algorithm.

tOpos Grasshopper3d Plugin for Optimization

tOpos

tOpos by archiseb is a 3D Topology Optimisation plugin which is using GPU for computation acceleration. It is based on CUDA technology provided by NVIDIA.

Octopus Grasshopper3d Plugin for Optimization

Octopus

Octopus by Robert Vierlinger was originally made for Multi-Objective Evolutionary Optimization. It allows the search for many goals at once, producing a range of optimized trade-off solutions between the extremes of each goal.

VisualARQ Grasshopper3d Plugin BIM

VisualARQ

VisualARQ by F.Salla adds flexible BIM features to Rhino, and speeds up the process of modeling an architectural project in 2D and 3D. VisualARQ provides tools to generate all project document information and quantification.

Voronoize Grasshopper3d Plugin Voronoi

Voronoize

Voronoize by Ar37 is a grasshopper plugin that allows you to create voronoi structure from any Closed PolySurface, Open PolySurface, Non-Planar Surface, Planar Surface and Mesh.

Atträctor Grasshopper3d Plugin

Atträctor

Atträctor by Friedrich Söllner is an easy to use tool to transform grids according to given attractor geometry. This tool was developed for a beginners Grasshopper workshop at the Städelschule architecture class in Frankfurt/Germany.

Ladybug Grasshopper3d Plugin

Ladybug

Ladybug by Mostapha Sadeghipour Roudsari allows you to import and analyze standard weather data in Grasshopper; draw diagrams like Sun-path, wind-rose, radiation-rose, etc.

Droid Grasshopper3d Plugin - 3d Print Slicer and Path Plotter

Droid

Droid by ytsebastian is a 3D printing related Grasshopper Plug-in Library add-on, with control over model Slicing, Custom paths and Gcode generation. Designed to be used from small desktop 3d Printers, up to large scale Robotic Fabricators.

GeoDex Grasshopper3d Plugin

GeoDex

GeoDex 3 GH by David Mans is the Grasshopper 3D implementation of the GeoDex Library, a collection of around 150 curve, surface, and volume equations.

Hoopsnake Grasshopper3d Plugin

Hoopsnake

Hoopsnake by yconst is a component that enables feedback loops within Grasshopper. What it does in principle is to create a copy of the data it receives at it’s input upon user request and store it locally.

LunchBox Grasshopper3d Plugin

LunchBox

LunchBox by Nathan Miller is a plug-in for Grasshopper for exploring mathematical shapes, paneling, structures, and workflow.

Silkworm Grasshopper3d Plugin for 3D Printing

Silkworm

Silkworm by Karl Adam, Arthur and Andrei – The Silkworm Team, is a plugin that translates Grasshopper and Rhino geometry into GCode for 3d printing.

Strawberry Tools Grasshopper3d Plugin

Strawberry Tools

Strawberry Lab is an initiative to create free tools for structural engineers to tackle specific bottle-necks in their workflow. Tools that they are creating are automating areas of modelling and loading for cases with large amounts of structural elements.

Peregrine Grasshopper3d Plugin

Peregrine

Peregrine is a LimitState:FORM powered optimization plugin for Grasshopper, the visual programming language and environment for Rhino3D.

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