Wednesday, May 14, 2025

TRfem: Thermal Simulation in Grasshopper 2 - Interview with Mathias Fuchs (McNeel)


In this interview ahead of his presentation at CDFAM Amsterdam (July 9-10, 2025), Mathias Fuchs discusses how the new architecture of the much anticipated Grasshopper 2 opens the door to simulation-native design and more…

With native support for parallelism, field-based data structures, and more seamless integration between geometry and analysis, GH2 enables plugins like TRmesh and TRfem to run finite element simulations directly on the canvas. Mathias explains how these tools bring volumetric meshing, heat conduction analysis, and isosurface generation into real-time design workflows—making physical simulation a first-class part of parametric modeling.


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