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GECO : Grasshopper to Ecotect

A free plugin for Rhino and Grasshopper allows the exchange of Grasshopper-powered Rhino models with Autodesk Ecotect, an energy and building performance analysis software, targeted at early design evaluation.
Read about it on:
http://www.rhinojungle.com/profiles/blogs/gh-plugin-geco-gh2eco-and-vice

When going over to the actual blog where the software is shared (http://utos.blogspot.com) you can read that the software is shared with a Creative Commons license (CC-NC-BY-SA). So free to use and share, but only non-commercial and shared under the same license.


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  1. mahdi14 June, 2011

    hey stefan,
    i'm so surprised by your page and GECO...please tell me how could i download Geco on my grasshooper?

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  2. stefkeB15 June, 2011

    http://utos.blogspot.com/p/downloads.html

    There you can download the plugin. Ensure you download the right version for your Grasshopper release.

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  3. stefkeB15 June, 2011

    https://sites.google.com/site/utotoolswiki/home

    This is the actual Google page with the files to download. Geco is a time-limited free version (till 1 July 2011) so be fast ;)

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