Geco Question:

I recently stumbled upon Geco and after downloaded it I placed the files in the component folder as asked, but when i ran grasshopper I get a loading error dialog box.

Does anyone know a solution to this?

Thank you

-Patrick Losure

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Permalink Reply by Martin Dembski on October 5, 2011 at 1:47pm

Hi Patrick,

to install Geco you just need to run the exe-file, you don't need to place anything in the components folder. The file you can find here maybe you need to sign in the group.

Hope this helps.

Best,

Martin.

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Permalink Reply by Patrick Losure on October 5, 2011 at 1:51pm

Hey thanks Martin!

I figured out my problem, I downloaded an older version of geco there for it wouldn't run but I got it working now!

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Permalink Reply by Patrick Losure on October 5, 2011 at 2:40pm

Ok now that I have it running I wanted to take my file and see how my object reacts with sunlight and the possible shadows I can create, I was able to take an existing object and turn it into mesh, then the mesh I seen was transported to ecotect but I cant figure out how to real time move it in ecotect, also when i clicked the visual tab to see it in their nothing would appear other than a white screen.

Sorry for these questions I'm new to GH.

Attachments:

Leaf_Roof_2.gh, 19 KB
Leaf_roof_2.3dm, 595 KB

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Permalink Reply by to] on October 5, 2011 at 7:53pm

Hi Patrick,

please take a look on our example files in the geco group.

Also to be aware about geco question please post them also at http://www.grasshopper3d.com/group/geco. It is much easier for us.

About your question.

you have to move your object in grasshopper and it will get updated in ecotect. For shadow-studies you can use our Shadow-component which creates the shadow inside rhino

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