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Bruno's pages : Links : Tents : Software

Bruno's pages : Links : Tents : Software

This is a collection of links to tent and tension structure design softwares, this isn't complete and I'm not necessarily recommending any of these.
Free
  • Sailcut - Sailcut CAD is a sail design and plotting software which allows you to design and visualise your own sail and compute the accurate development of all panels in flat sheets.
  • Surface Evolver - The Surface Evolver is 'an interactive program for the study of surfaces shaped by surface tension and other energies'.
  • douglas zongker - polyhedra models - Nothing to do with tents, but some great cut-out and stick-together models of the 13 Archimedean semi-regular polyhedra.
  • ip slicer - A little tool for creating patterns to make the segments you need to assemble a sphere. It does it entirely with image files so you can turn an atlas into a globe etc..
  • NJIT - The New Jersey Institute of Technology have a small fortran package for patterning. it doesn't seem to work, but maybe you'll have more luck than me.
  • puzzles with polyhedra and numbers - Puzzles with polyhedra and numbers. In this site one can print copies of polyhedron puzzles (for non-commercial purposes only) and one can read several mathematical articles on the subject.
  • Vinicius F. Arcaro homepage - Vinicius is a Brazilian engineer developing software for shell and tension structures.
  • Taylors - Some AutoCAD lisp routines for manipulating polyface meshes, slicing and flattening them.
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