✏️ Design-Information-Modeling for Kit-of-Parts Architecture.

You want to ✏️ the next 🏛️🏘️🏢🏭🏫🏨⛪🕌 with 🤖? But 📐🔢🗣️👥🖱️⌨️ takes all your ⌚? Then try to 🧠 the 🧬 and let semio 💉🖥️✒️🖨️🪄🚀. # 🤖 What is semio? Let me start by what semio is **not**: - Rhino, SketchUp, 3ds Max, Blender, ... A _3d_ tool 🐚 > In semio you **link** 3d-models 🎋 - AutoCAD, DraftSight, LibreCAD, ... A _CAD_ tool 📐 > In semio you **link** dynamic blocks 📦 - Revit, ArchiCAD, Vectorworks, BricksCAD, BlenderBIM, … A _BIM_ tool 🧱 > In semio you **link** instances of your own types 🗿 - Grasshopper, Dynamo, GenerativeComponents, Sverchok, … A _node_ tool 🦗 > In semio you **link** the input with the output ⛓️‍💥 - IFC, Speckle, BHoM, … A _data_ tool 📄 > In semio you **link** design knowledge 📚 - Hypar, Viktor, Fusion, … A _parametric_ tool 🎛️ > In semio you **link** static designs 🩻 - Wasp, Assembler, Monocerous, ComputerGeneratedArchitecture … A _solver_ tool 🎰 > In semio you **link** precise pieces 🪡 - OpenSCAD, CadQuery, Fornjot, … A _scripting_ tool 📜 > In semio you **link** ports visually 🖱️ - Illustrator, AffinityDesigner, InkScape, … A _vector_ tool ↗️ > In semio you **link** drawings 🖼️ - EnergyPlus, TRYNSIS, Modellica, … A _simulation_ tool ☀️ > In semio you **link** models and results 🔢 - Autodesk Construction Cloud, Bimcloud, Bentley Infrastructure Cloud, Git, Nextcloud, … A _CDE_ tool ☁️ > In semio you **link** urls 🔗 So, what **is** semio? - An _open-source_ ecosystem for designing kit-of-parts architecture 🧩 - A _designer-affine_ pencil for a placeholder-based, non-linear and iterative design space exploration 🔀 - A _collaboration-friendly_ platform to design effectively in large teams 🤝 - A _local-first_ storage to link, reuse and develop design systems 🔗 - An _ai-boosted_ design assistant, ready for LLM super powers 🤖 - A _ready-to-use_ API for other developers 👩‍💻 ## 🤔 When should I design with semio? If you design unique atmospheres by hand drawn sketches, eager to find the right shape based on surfaces with one-of-each-kind morphology, then you should stick to your 3d tool ❌ If you design floor plans, sections and elevations by moving lines and hatches around, analyzing contours then you should stick to your CAD tool ❌ If you design storeys, walls, windows, slabs and roofs by moving them around, changing individual dimensions of those, then you should stick to your BIM tool ❌ If you design high-resolution blobs by sophisticated rules, statistical noise, intersection-based entropy, then you should stick to your solver tool ❌ If you design modular systems by iteratively developing typology based on metrics, then you should use semio ✅ # 🚀 Getting started > The code of semio is compatible with Windows, Mac and Linux but currently compiled for Windows only. semio has two user-interfaces: - Grasshopper 🦗 - sketchpad ✏️ > The heart of semio is the `semio-engine` executable which exposes an GraphQL-API. If you are developer, then you should visit `http://localhost:24103/graphql`. ## ⬇️ Installation > The binaries are not signed (yet). Therefor Windows might give a warning. ### 🦗 Grasshopper The Grasshopper plugin can be installed over the Rhino Package Manager 🟢 1. Open Rhino Package Manger ⌨️ 1. Search for semio 🔎 1. Install the latest version ⬇️ 1. Restart Rhino 🔄  That's it! ### ✏️ sketchpad > This is a prototype. It doesn't use the latest versions of the engine and Grasshopper. [sketchpad](https://github.com/usalu/semio/releases/download/r24.07-1/sketchpad.exe) is a portable program and needs no installation. To use sketchpad with Grasshopper you need to download semio Grasshopper `2.1.2`. If you want to use sketchpad standalone you need to download, extract and start the [engine](https://github.com/usalu/semio/releases/download/r24.07-1/engine.zip). After this you can open the [examples](https://github.com/usalu/semio/releases/download/r24.07-1/examples.zip)🏎️ ## 🏘️ Examples You can download the latest [examples](https://github.com/usalu/semio/releases/download/r24.10-3/examples.zip) or take a look [here](https://github.com/usalu/semio/blob/main-tag/examples/metabolism/README.md) 👀 # ❤️ Contribution New platforms wait to be reached, bugs wait to be found, examples wait to be created, documentation waits to be written, ... Feel free to open a [discussion](https://github.com/usalu/semio/discussions), an [issue](https://github.com/usalu/semio/issues), take a look under the [project site](https://github.com/users/usalu/projects/2) or just write me an [e-mail](semio-community@posteo.org) 👋 # 📊 Stats