MPanel software is arguably the most comprehensive and yet the easiest tensile structure design software to learn and use. Operating as a toolbar within AutoCAD or Rhino, MPanel uses simple rules to quickly build models, form find the shape, and create the panels. Using simple rules and procedures helps the designer to develop a feel for the structure, interactively design the desired shape, and then rapidly take it through the stages to production. And the model manipulation, viewing, rendering and printing uses the host CAD platform standard methods.
Although MPanel easily designs simple shade structures, it is also used on complicated multi element designs, such as multi peak conics, structures with internal webbing reinforcement, and inflated structures. And MPanel is extensible, there are additional modules that perform structural finite element analysis to predict the stresses involved with wind and snow loads, and a nesting module that arranges the panels for minimum material usage.
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