EleFront

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EleFront is an add-on that allows the user to bake geometry, annotations and blocks with user defined attributes and or Rhino attributes. Rhino objects can be referenced and filtered dynamically, to be used in Grasshopper.

Full description and download from:

http://www.food4rhino.com/app/elefront

The discussion group below is the best place for asking questions and discussing the usage of the add-on.

Website: http://www.elefront.info/
Members: 30
Latest Activity: yesterday

Discussion Forum

WISH: Text align options 5 Replies

Hello again Ramon,I am working on a project where we are trying to do literally ALL plan generation parametricly from Grasshopper, which includes baking Text objects with Elefront.Could you please in…Continue

Started by Armin Seltz. Last reply by Max Malein Aug 7.

Baking Nested Linked Blocks 3 Replies

Hi, I would first like to thank the Front team for a really great add on that takes Grasshopper to a whole other level as far as production is concerned.I'm currently running into an issue with where…Continue

Started by Louis Leblanc. Last reply by Louis Leblanc Jul 4.

Elefront Crashing Visual Studio Debug

Hey, wanted to file a bug report.. I've been working on a plugin of my own. After installing Elefront earlier today, I'm getting this error (see attached image) (in Visual Studio 2015) debug…Continue

Started by Matthew Breau Jun 20.

Elefront 3.01 for RhinoWIP MacOS? 3 Replies

I just tested the newest Elefront 3.01 using the latest RhinoWIP for MacOS and seems that it is not working. I can't see anymore in the "File/Preferences/Solver".Previously I had used the v0.14 which…Continue

Tags: Elefront, MacOS, RhinoWIP

Started by macuso. Last reply by macuso Jun 4.

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Comment by Voronich Vladimir yesterday: Hi Ramon, thanks for the add-on! But i found little bug. In component "Define Text" don't work justification.

Comment by Martin Siegrist on September 11, 2017 at 4:38am: Hi Ramon, how do you change existing rhino layer names?

I'm exporting a lot of 3D PDF and recently DXF to have the benefit of full layer names when exporting to sketchup. The issue is that rhino does not export full layer names to either 3D PDF, sketchup and iRhino. Exporting a DXF first creates the full layer names.

This is an ok solution but it results in ugly layer names with $ characters inserted in between layer and sub-layer names.

I want to replace those $ characters.

Editing the layer names in Grasshopper is easy but when I bake them, rhino creates new layers instead of editing the existing ones. Probably logic since it doesn't know which ones it has to edit.

Thanks for your plugin and I hope you have a solution

Comment by Ramon van der Heijden on April 6, 2017 at 8:40pm

Hi All,

I have just released an update to the add-on on Food4Rhino. Some bugs were fixed.

Added "Activate all bake components" button
Description component migrated to "AutoGraph" and will only be available in Elefront as legacy
When you create a cycle in description components, GH wil no longer crash
Materials are now assigned to layers and objects properly
A known bug with valuelist components and layer components is fixed
A bug in the "Duplicate Data Match" component is fixed
A bug in the "Graft Parallel" component is fixed

Comment by retroagent on March 19, 2017 at 11:56pm: Hi Ramon, Thanks again for the add-on. I've been using the export objects component especially, which I've had the best success exporting multiple geometries to a single file and including textures. One issue I've come across is that with the extension set to .obj, the rhino command line still spits out "Choose meshing option ( DetailedOptions PolygonDensity=50 ):" which requires a manual selection. Issuing a -_Export manually first and re-running the script has no change. I'm curious what syntax is required to force the export scheme of the component? Have not tested with other filetypes.

Comment by Ramon van der Heijden on December 14, 2016 at 3:11am: I have prepared a working sample file that demonstrates some of the functionalities. It is really just a drop on a hot plate, but it should give an idea of the different scenarios the tool can be used for.

01-Example_Blocks.gh

Comment by Ramon van der Heijden on December 13, 2016 at 9:16pm: A new updated version with FULL functionality has been released today. There are quite a few exciting new features, as well as some beloved old ones, such as block creation and instantiation.

Feel free to check it out on Food4Rhino