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# Etabs | ggRhinoEtabs

## Etabs Introduction <a href="#gsa-introduction" id="gsa-introduction"></a>

​**ETABS** is an engineering software product that caters to multi-story building analysis and design. Modeling tools and templates, code-based load prescriptions, analysis methods and solution techniques, all coordinate with the grid-like geometry unique to this class of structure.

GeometryGym provides a way of parametrically defining and developing Etabs models using Grasshopper. The plug-in can also be used to import and modify existing Etabs models in a dynamic and parametric way.

## Etabs References <a href="#gsa-references" id="gsa-references"></a>

Learn more about Etabs software:

​<https://www.csiamerica.com/products/etabs>

## Updates to the Etabs Plug-in <a href="#updates-to-the-gsa-plug-in" id="updates-to-the-gsa-plug-in"></a>

For the latest updates to the GSA plug-in refer to the page below:​


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