Tutorial: Live structural analysis. Click and drag a simple truss with Kangaroo in Grasshopper.

Tutorial on Kangaroo in Grasshopper and Rhino. How to get real-time structural moments by using the mouse to click and drag at points on any structure.

Note: Moments are drawn to make them clear but not necessarily to convention. However it is easy to switch which side they are drawn.

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