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The compass method is used to develop the initial shape in a quadrangular mesh. Rebuilt on a plane, the mesh leads to a regular grid suitable to materialise the studied shape by a gridshell. An alternative method, taking into account the grid’s mechanical properties, was also proposed by the Navier Laboratory (Bouhay, Baverel and Caron 2009). This method uses explicit dynamic algorithms to pin an initially flat grid on a given shape, with a system of fictive forces.