111118 galapagos interaction with SAP2000

The solution to this simple problem is obvious to human intelligence, maximize the sliders to get the stiffest truss. But it's an interesting demonstration of combining Galapagas and SAP2000 using the Geometry Gym Connectors. 3 variable inputs have been defined, number of truss segments and dimensions of chords and cross members. The fitness function criteria is to minimize deflection for a point load, a pending improvement is minimizing truss mass to achieve required deflection.

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Comment by Jon Mirtschin on February 20, 2012 at 9:43am: So the definition as demonstrated for the truss in the video above can be found on this blog post

http://geometrygym.blogspot.com/2011/03/galapagas-and-gsa-solver.html

If you have requests for others, please let me know. Note that you can filter the blog using the tag cloud or a link like this, http://geometrygym.blogspot.com/search/label/SAP2000

Comment by LionOfLowe on February 20, 2012 at 9:13am: Greetings! Thank you for the plugin location.

Do you have a GH defintion for the 111118 galapos interaction with SAP2000 or a simple GH defintion to start with?

Just to have a flow or algorithm to work with ..if you dont mind.

Hope to continually assist me on this endeavor.

Many Thanks

Tony

Comment by Jon Mirtschin on February 15, 2012 at 9:29pm: Hi Tony,

The plugin as shown here is available from http://www.geometrygym.com/downloads Happy to assist you with getting started with these tools. Examples are at http://geometrygym.blogspot.com

Comment by LionOfLowe on February 15, 2012 at 8:08pm: Hi Jon

I found this video very interesting!! Thanks

Im an engineer and very interested in the the interaction between Galapos and SAP 2000. is it hard to do a script between grasshopper and SAP? do you know a third party plugin to do this?

Thanks

Tony