GETTING GRASSHOPPER CONNECTED TO EXCEL

Hello Guys,

Can any one help in how to connect grasshopper to excel , I've downloaded the required file but couldn't find the plug in grasshopper ?

Regards

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Permalink Reply by Danny Boyes on June 10, 2012 at 2:21pm

I use ghowl to connect to Excel. http://www.grasshopper3d.com/group/ghowl

EDIT: I've just seen that you have already tried gHowl as your approach. There is an extra thing to download and install called OpenXML engine. http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=5124

Permalink Reply by yahya ibraheem on June 10, 2012 at 2:23pm

yeah , i want to use that too , but after downloading the plugin how can i start working on the grasshopper it self , i couldn't find the commands ? thanks

Permalink Reply by Danny Boyes on June 10, 2012 at 2:24pm

I've just seen that you have already tried gHowl as your approach. There is an extra thing to download and install called OpenXML engine. http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=5124

Permalink Reply by yahya ibraheem on June 10, 2012 at 2:37pm

i have downloaded both file but how can i open it inside grasshopper ? thanks

Permalink Reply by Danny Boyes on June 10, 2012 at 3:05pm

OpenXMLSDKv2.msi

Just install it. double click on it in windows

Permalink Reply by yahya ibraheem on June 10, 2012 at 3:17pm

you mean not to open it through grasshopper?

Permalink Reply by Danny Boyes on June 10, 2012 at 3:30pm

yeah. it is nothing to do with grasshopper. but it is needed for ghowl to read and write xlsx files

Permalink Reply by yahya ibraheem on June 10, 2012 at 3:39pm

ohhh sorry ,i really don't understand now ,i'm getting confused :( sorry can you tell me what to do from the beginning connect my grasshopper project to excel ?

thanks and appreciated

Permalink Reply by Danny Boyes on June 10, 2012 at 4:05pm

First thing to get across. Native Grasshopper does not have the "straight out of the box" ability to read and write spreadsheets.

However, some people have gone to the trouble of linking excel to Grasshopper one of which is Luis with his gHowl components. But this only allows you to read and write spreadsheets if you would like to have a live link then there are others who have tried and succeeded.

Here are a few others:

http://www.grasshopper3d.com/profiles/blogs/gh-excel-suite-v0-05

http://www.grasshopper3d.com/forum/topics/components-for-excel-read...

Now if you are going to stick with gHowl then you will need to download it from this link: gHowl_r50 for 0.8.x

As it's a zip file you will have to extract the files to the grasshopper libraries folder. To locate this go to the File menu in Grasshopper and select Special Folders then Components Folders. Once gHowl is in the right place you then need to install the OpenXMLSDKv2.msi file which you can get from this link: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=5124. Unless this is installed Grasshopper/gHowl will not read or write xlsx files.

After these stages are done you can then use the following gHowl components:

Spreadsheet Reader - Retrieves spreadsheet data from a file stored on your computer.

Spreadsheet Writer - Allows you to write a spreadsheet file.

Permalink Reply by yahya ibraheem on June 11, 2012 at 7:58am

thank you for this reply it's appreciated but when i went the file menue in grasshopper and i selcet the special folder then componets folder the folder installed on my computer was rhino file not grasshopper one ,so a new rhino folder open ? this makes nothing ? i guess i should find grasshopper file ,isn't it?

Permalink Reply by yahya ibraheem on June 11, 2012 at 8:01am

the message was file type is not supported by rhino series ?

Permalink Reply by Danny Boyes on June 11, 2012 at 8:57am

I don't know where you are going wrong but it is very wrong indeed.

Here is my libraries folder with gHowl in.

Which means when I open Grasshopper I get the use of the Spreadsheet Writer Component

Alternatively I could use the spreadsheet reader component to get data into Grasshopper

Apart from showing it like this I don't know of any other way to help unless you would like me to share your desktop with something like mikogo and talk you through it that way?