3.8 Export

Karamba3D is not meant to be a substitute for a full blown structural engineering finite element software package. Instead it aims at providing flexibility in testing different structural designs that the more traditional FE-applications lack. We therefore started to implement interfaces to those traditional civil engineering packages.

At the moment Karamba3D supports data exchange via

• SAF-files: see https://www.saf.guide/en/stable/getting-started/who-supports-saf.html for a list of programs which support this Excel-based format and to what extent.

• DStV-files (to e.g. RStab7, RStab8 and Robot).

• JSON/BSON: these formats allow to send and receive models via the net.

• Excel: besides SAF, the Excel-exporter allows to write model-data to spread-sheets.

• Speckle: For this to work you need to install the Speckle plug-ins for Rhino and Grasshopper first

With GeometryGym it is possible to export Karamba3D model data to IFC.