README.md

COMPAS Masonry

Warning

This plugin is under active development, and its functionality will frequently change.

COMPAS Masonry is a plugin for Rhino for the assessment of masonry structures, and for the stability analsis of Discrete Element Models in general.

The current version of this plugin is based on COMPAS 2 and is available for Rhino 8.

Installation

To install COMPAS-Masonry, use Rhino's package manager Yak. To open Yak, type PackageManager on the Rhino command line.

COMPAS Packages

COMPAS-Masonry uses the following COMPAS packages:

• compas
• compas_assembly
• compas_model
• compas_rui
• compas_session

After installing RhinoVAULT with Yak, these requirements will be installed automatically if necessary. The tool might be unresponsive during this process, which might take up to 1 or 2 mins. The packages are installed in a separate virtual environment named COMPAS-Masonry.

Note

Note that COMPAS-Masonry currently doesn't include any solvers (such as compas_cra) yet. This is because they have dependencies that are still difficult to install in Rhino.

User Interface

COMPAS-Masonry defines the following Rhino commands:

• Masonry
• Masonry_session_undo
• Masonry_session_redo
• Masonry_session_open
• Masonry_session_save
• Masonry_scene_clear
• Masonry_scene_redraw
• Masonry_settings

These commands can be executed using the Rhino command line (simply start typing the command name), or with the corresponding buttons of the COMPAS-Masonry toolbar.

If the toolbar is not visible after installing COMPAS-Masonry, you can load it from the "Toolbars" page. To open the "Toolbars" page, type Toolbar on the Rhino command line...

Documentation

For further "getting started" instructions, a tutorial, examples, and an detailed description of the individual commands and the user interface, please check out the online documentation here: COMPAS-Masonry Gitbook

Issues

Please report problems using the issue tracker of the github repo: https://github.com/blockresearchgroup/compas-Masonry/issues