PedSim® Pro is a pedestrian simulation plug-in for Rhino and Grasshopper. It helps architects, designers, planners, consultants, property developers, students and researchers visualize and understand people movement in spaces.
PedSim® Pro is based on PedSim®, the No.1 pedestrian simulation tool in Rhino and Grasshopper, with 14000+ downloads worldwide. Users can utilize Grasshopper and Rhino’s full modeling, visualization and data processing capabilities. It is unbelievably easy yet extremely powerful.
The following is an overview of PedSim Pro’s improvements over PedSim.
Featured topic
PedSim 0.13
PedSim Pro 1.2
Stops in route planning
Start and destination
Multiple planned stops
Types of stop
Stand
Room, Stand, Train
Types of obstacles
Opaque
Opaque, transparent
Speed control
Controlling Target Force
Controlling Desired Speed and Max Speed
Target selection
Person stick to one target and access point
Person can switch target and switch access point
Collision Detection
No
Yes
Advanced parameters
No
Yes
Deconstruct PedSim data types
Person, PersonRecord
All types
Queuing
No
Yes
Simulation Replay
No
Yes
Tutorials
Workshop at Columbia University GSAPP – Data Mining the City 2022
Many thanks to Richard Chou, Adjunct Professor at Columbia University GSAPP, for the invitation to host a workshop there.
The two-hour workshop comprises a lecture, a PedSim Pro basic modeling tutorial, and a modeling session with a carefully crafted example for the class featuring Brooklyn Commons public plaza. Workshop materials and student work from the course are available in the links below:
PedSim creator Peng Wang is invited by McNeel Europe to host a webinar on PedSim and PedSim Pro. You can watch the full recording below.
Webinar at Keio University Digital Construction Consortium
This was recorded on January 12, 2021, one day before the Consortium. At the consortium it was played and discussed in front of a larger audience. There was a presentation and a short discussion. This is the presentation part.
PedSim Pro Basics – Modeling People Flow in a Plaza
Pro Feature: Room vs Stand, Transparent Obstacle, Multiple Stops
This video walks you through the basics of PedSim Pro by modeling people flow in a plaza from scratch. It is good to download PedSim Pro and follow along in Rhino.
For better viewing experience, please turn on Full Screen.
