# Start a new project
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## Preparation
Download the Ameba.exe file and run the installation.
**The unit system of Ameba is: N, mm, Mpa. Therefore, it is best to keep mm as the unit of Rhino's model.**
## Requirements of plug-in environment:
.NET Framework **4.5.2**
Rhinoceros 6 **SR7** (Windows) or later
## Install plug-in
[Ameba plug-in Download](http://ameba.xieym.com/download)
## Software operation interface
![](https://box.kancloud.cn/1e28eb973ec782075c391627d1b697f7_931x78.png)
- About Ameba
- User agreement
- Register
- Start a new project
- Start a 2D optimization project
- Start a 3D optimization project
- Function Introduction
- Cloud
- Solver
- Login
- Mesh
- AmebaMesh
- Mesh2D
- Mesh3D
- ReadMesh
- CustomTriangleMesh
- CustomQuadMesh
- Mesh3DFromMesh
- Domain
- PointsDomain
- LinesDomain
- CurvesDomain
- SurfacesDomain
- Ameba2D
- Load2D
- TangentLoad2D
- NormalLoad2D
- NondesignDomain2D
- Support2D
- Ameba3D
- Load3D
- NormalLoad3D
- NondesignDomain3D
- Support3D
- PreProcess
- Symmetry
- Material
- OptParameters
- PreProcessing
- Sensitivity
- MultipleLoadCase
- PostProcess
- Display
- Step
- RenderDisplay
- MeshOpt
- Rebuild2D
- Remesh
- QuadMesh
- TriMesh
- CPMesh
- MeshTools
- ClosetVertex
- CornerFaces
- AdjancentFaces
- Smooth
- Subdivision
- MeshDual
- FillHoles
- MeshChecker
- MeshPipe
- OffsetMesh
- MeshWeld
- Skeleton2D
- Skeleton3D
- CurvatureAnalysis
- Simplification
- Parameterization
- Solver Window
- Error Report and Solution
- Logs