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ShapeDiver Now Supports SheepMetal Plugin!

Learn more about this plugin for designing and preparing sheet metal parts.

Getting to know… Beaver Structures: Redefining Parametric Timber Engineering!

Learn about this open-source plugin focused on timber engineering and how it is currently being used in universities of more than 20 countries and renowned engineering companies over the globe.

IntraLattice, Chimpanzee, Treesloth & Droid added to ShapeDiver!

ShapeDiver recently added support for 4 new Grasshopper plugins, bringing the total number of third-party plugins to 33. Learn more about how you can use them on our platform starting today by reading below.

Parakeet Plugin Now Supported On ShapeDiver

Parakeet3D is a collection of digital tools that expands Grasshopper's morphological repository for Patterns and Networks, allowing designers to go beyond old shapes and push the old boundaries to comply with modern design requirements. Starting today, it's now supported on ShapeDiver!

RoomSurveyor Plugin Now Supported On ShapeDiver

RoomSurveyor implements iterative triangulation algorithms to assist users in surveying rooms, either orthogonal or non-orthogonal, and automating the drawing of the as-is survey. This guest post, written by developer Filipe Brandão, explores what the plugin can do, how it works, and what problem led to its creation.

Plugin updates for Clipper, Heteroptera, LunchBox, and OpenNest.

Grasshopper plugins Heteroptera, Caterpillar, Fattener and jSwan join the ShapeDiver platform!

We remain committed to make ShapeDiver a very open and flexible platform, even for our Free users. For this reason, we’ve given a higher priority to the process of adding support for useful third-party plugins.

Why can’t ShapeDiver support all Grasshopper third-party plugins?

Our goal at ShapeDiver is to make this platform as open and compatible with 3rd party plugins as possible. Nonetheless, sometimes some plugins are just not made to be used in an online environment. In this article, we explain the overall requirements for any plugin to be supported on our system.