Top 5 grasshopper plugins for Structural Engineers

These are our top 5 plugins for Grasshopper. We have used many different plugins in the past and these are the ones we think are the most useful for a typical engineering workday.
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[@sadiqsalehprottoy2906]

5. Lunchbox
4. Kangaroo2
3. Karamba
2. Kiwi3D
1. Rhino inside Revit

[@TheSameDonkey]

They're definitely all fair picks.
As someone who likes to BIM directly in rhino. I'd say elefront deserves a place. Also some of the manipulations in pufferfish are great for modeling rebar on asymmetric solids

[@StructuredParametrics]

Elefront is a great suggestion and one we need to investigate further here.

[@AliAhmed-ro7si]

Hi
I am new at grasshopper I want to do the analysis of the cable and strut structure and don't know where to start if anybody can help me

[@marcelootanez4828]

Thanks for the video, optimization with milipede or galapagos?

[@StructuredParametrics]

Yes we have used the Galapagos components that come with Grasshopper. Millipede we have used however development seems to have stopped with that plugin that we could find.

[@AliAhmed-ro7si]

Hi
I am new at grasshopper I want to do the analysis of the cable and strut structure and don't know where to start if anybody can help me

[@32_srishtiwadhwa20]

Any grasshopper plugin you know about to analyse accessibility in plans?

[@ritabaltasar3322]

Hi, I am newly with Grasshopper. I am looking to find a way to automate bolt detection and open holes and voids. Do you know if there is a plugin that can help me do the job? Thanks in advance

[@StructuredParametrics]

Hi. I'm not aware of a plugin for this. However I'm pretty sure this could be done with the standard components. My first thought would be to use 'Clash One|Many' and 'Trim Solid'.

[@catcat6480]

grasshhoper has the ability to do structure analysis?

[@StructuredParametrics]

Yes sure

[@vietduongquoc]

thank you!

[@StructuredParametrics]

Welcome!

[@Z-add]

Can you create a UI for your graashopper model where you only expose the parameters that the user can change and hide all the spaghetti nodes.

[@StructuredParametrics]

Yes sure. There are several options. First you can simply group the spaghetti into a cluster which turns everything into one component (leaving variables exposed). Or you can use a UI plugin. Or you can even put it on the web.

[@PixelVagrant]

Publish your Variables that the end user can tweak to Remote control panel and let the user use the Remote Control Panel

[@abdullahacar3319]

dont you add tekla live pulign

[@StructuredParametrics]

That is a useful one if you use Tekla. For fabricators, the Tekla plugin would be number 1! Many Engineers will not use Tekla though because Architects more commonly use Revit and it makes sense to use what the Architect uses.

[@HM-eb9jt]

is there a way that enables to interface ram concept with grasshopper for parametric design and to get the tendons data?

[@StructuredParametrics]

This could be developed but we are not aware of a solution at the moment

[@nicolasramirez3944]

BHoM I think works with RAM

[@HM-eb9jt]

@@nicolasramirez3944 thank you