Typological, non-linear and ai-boosted designing.
You want to ✏️ the next 🏛️🏘️🏢🏭🏫🏨⛪🕌 with 🤖? But 📐🔢🗣️👥🖱️⌨️ takes all your ⌚? Then try to 🧠 the 🧬 and let semio 💉🖥️✒️🖨️🪄🚀.
Let me start by what semio is not:
- Rhino, SketchUp, Blender, … A 3d-modeling tool 🐚
In semio you link 3d-models.
- Revit, ArchiCAD, Vectorworks, BricksCAD, BlenderBIM, … A BIM-authoring tool 🧱
In semio you link instances of your own types.
- Grasshopper, Dynamo, Sverchok, … A node-based programming tool 🦗
In semio you link the input with the output.
- Illustrator, AffinityDesigner, InkScape, … A vector graphics 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, Nextcloud, … A CDE tool ☁️
In semio you link urls.
- IFC, Speckle, BHoM, … A data tool 📄
In semio you link design knowledge.
- Hypar, Viktor, Fusion, CadQuery, … A parametric tool 🎛️
In semio you link static pieces.
So, what is semio?
- An open-source ecosystem for designing modular 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 👩💻
If you design storeys, walls, windows, slabs, roofs by moving them around, changing individual dimensions of those, then you should stick to your BIM tool ❌
If you design atmospheres based on 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 typologies which you iteratively detail and you want to test systems where you are tinkering about rules, exceptions and metrics then you should use semio ✅
Currently the user interfaces are compiled for Windows only.
semio has two user-interfaces:
- Grasshopper 🦗
- sketchpad ✏️
The heart of semio is the
engine.exe
which exposes a GraphQL API. If you are developer, then you should visithttp://localhost:5052/graphql/
.
The Grasshopper plugin can be installed over the Rhino Package Manager 🟢
- Open Rhino Package Manger ⌨️
- Search for semio 🔎
- Install the latest version ⬇️
- Restart Rhino 🔄
NOTE: The binaries are not signed (yet). Therefore Windows might give a warning.
That's it!
You can download the latest examples or take a look here 👀
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, an issue or take a look under the project site 👋