Converting Grasshopper to Rhino Plug-in

Hello,

Pardon me if this is an obvious question. Is there a way to convert grasshopper projects into rhino plug-ins? Or better yet, once the project is tested and working to generate source code in C# or other language?

Thanks

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Permalink Reply by David Rutten on March 12, 2012 at 5:42am

Hi James,

no.

David Rutten

david@mcneel.com

Poprad, Slovakia

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Permalink Reply by Matt Gaydon on March 13, 2012 at 5:50am

Hi David,

I have been working in Grasshopper for a few years now, and want to start using some of my scripts i had written in GH to learn to script better in written languages such as Python.

I guessed it would not be possible to just convert the code, but could you give us some tips on how to proceed with how best to go about converting GH Logic to written Script logic. Please

Thanks

Matt

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Permalink Reply by David Rutten on March 13, 2012 at 6:18am

There's no 1:1 mapping between Grasshopper components and Rhino SDK methods. Sometimes there is, but there are a lot of methods that haven't (yet) been exposed as components and there are some components (Delaunay, Voronoi and Metaballs to name just three) that are completely implemented in Grasshopper.

The most important bit of advice I can offer is what I always offer when someone asks what the best way is to learn programming.

Pick a problem that you fully understand. No point trying to learn programming while at the same time struggling with the mathematics.
Start small, don't try and encode an entire building/workflow all at once, only automate a single step at a time.

David Rutten

david@mcneel.com

Poprad, Slovakia