WISH: Groups working with all data types

Groups are a nice workaround for some list/branch manipulations but they don't work on any datatype. I guess this is because they are related to rhino groups that only deal with geometry.

This is not really necessary but I think it would be good to be able to group any datatype, especially for the students that are beginning to understand list and branch manipulation.

Bye

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Permalink Reply by David Rutten on July 12, 2013 at 2:32am

They are not related to Rhino Groups, but unfortunately they do only work on Geometry. Geometry data in Grasshopper has transform methods which allows groups to incorporate a bunch of items and delegate all transforms. Groups don't work for other geometry methods such as booleans or intersections. This is why they cannot work for other data types.

It may be possible for me to rewrite groups from the ground up so they work for all data types, but that would really require a complete rewrite of large parts of the Grasshopper kernel code. GH2 maybe. No promises.

David Rutten

david@mcneel.com

Tirol, Austria

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