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UMN Architecture TA Resources - best practices & resources for Teaching Assistants

Software Downloads

Rhino 3D

Sketchup

AutoCAD

AutoCAD Architecture

Revit

Adobe CS

Rhino Plugins

Food4Rhino (Plug-in Community Service; plugins for Rhino and Grasshopper)

PanelingTools (generate complex paneled surfaces in Rhino)

rhinoVAULT (funicular form-finding in Rhino)

ClimateStudio(Energy/Sunlight)

Grasshopper Plugins

Firefly for Grasshopper (links to Arduino)

Project Hummingbird (links GH & Revit)

Kangaroo (physics simulator)

Slingshot (connects GH with outside data sources)

LunchBox (super useful geometry shortcuts)

Rabbit (biological form-finding tool for GH)

Millipede (structural analysis and optimization)

DIVA (daylighting and energy modeling - for both GH and Rhino)

VisualARQ (BIM plugin for rhino)

Geometry Gym (BIM functionality in GH, sweep steel profiles, interoperability)

Last updated by Daniel Banker - March 2023