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Shells

The following section will show you how to set up Shell elements with properties such as: Material, Section, Eccentricity, Connectivity.

You can download the Grasshopper definition used in this tutorial from here 👉Grasshopper Definition

Slab

Uniform thickness

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Variable thickness

shell

Edge connection

shell shell

Peak smoothing region

shell

caution

Be aware that you need to disable the automatic generation functionality in FEM-Design's settings to avoid the region duplication, otherwise FEM-Design will generate them when you run an analysis.

caution