Ladybug Tools

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Ladybug Tools is a collection of free computer applications that support environmental design and education connecting 3D Computer-Aided Design (CAD) interfaces to a host of validated simulation engines. Although Ladybug Tools do ship platform agnostic libraries, it is originally designed as grasshopper nodes for the proprietary Rhinoceros 3D software and now also has integration with Blender.

The Ladybug tools provide a “web of interoperability” with many tool, including libre software packages:

• Radiance
• OpenStudio
• EnergyPlus
• OpenFOAM
• URBANopt

The Ladybug tools also provide interoperability with proprietary software such as Rhino and Autodesk Revit (under development)

See also

• Building Energy Modeling (BEM) & Learn about environmental analysis
• From our forum you can read posts with the LadybugTools tag.

External Resources

• https://www.ladybug.tools/
• Ladybug Tools Academy - Learn how to execute environmental and energy simulations using the Ladybug Tools plugins for Grasshopper in Rhino3D.
• https://www.linkedin.com/company/ladybug-tools/about/