Bowerbird

Bowerbird contains some tools for modeling.

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  • ng5 Alex

    Hello!

    i am getting this error 

    1. Solution exception:Method not found: 'Int32 System.Environment.get_CurrentManagedThreadId()'.

    with waffle and slices trying them with a sphere.

    i have installed the latest grasshopper.

    Any ideas?

    thank you

  • Thomas

    Hi ng5!

    I have updated the plugin for .Net Framework 4.0

    Now it should work!

  • ng5 Alex

    Yes it works!

    thank you.

  • Thomas

    Perfect!
    Let me know your thoughts!
  • Tim Nøhr Elkær

    Hi Thomas. Thankyou for Bowerbird. I've used Waffle and your Single-Stroke-Text and I'm very happy with the results. Will you consider to also add the lowercase "æøå" and not only "ÆØÅ" in future versions?

  • Thomas

    Hi Tim!
    I'm really pleased.

    I have just added these three letters. Just download the component again and replace the old one.

    Greetings!

  • Tim Nøhr Elkær

    I have two comments, which you might consider in version 0.2.0.2.

    First comment has to do with the Boolean Toggle of the Bold in BBText. I think it should be opposite, right? So if you add a switch it should read: Bold = True, if the typeface should be in Bold. - But it's not. Second comment is a simple wish: Could the Text be at the top, so that all the settings are grouped below ending with Location? This would also be helpfull in BBWaffle, where Mesh is at the top and BasePlane should be at the end. This would help untangling the definition in most cases

  • Tim Nøhr Elkær

    Hi again. Wow. That was quick :-) Adding extra characters to the Extended Latin is a great improvement, so thankyou for adding æøå.

    I'm very pleased with your Bowerbird work. (Crazy bird by the way).

  • Thomas

    Oh, I see... I did make a mistake with the font names. Thank you! The bold toggle should now work as expected.

    Feel free to ask for more characters.

    For the parameters I choose the same order as Grasshoppers Text Tag 3D component. Unfortunately changing this order will cause compatibility problems so I will keep the actual order until a major update.

  • HEEN

    Damn I practiced a bit with all the definitions I've got the results, Could you delete the comments to avoid offtopic.
    One more thing, how to control the rotation to get more variation on diamond shape, thanks for answering I am a little noob.

  • Thomas

    You can use the base plane parameter to change the direction of the operation. The x/y layers are always orthogonal.

    For the future: Please post your questions in the bowerbird forum instead of the comment wall!

  • Tim Nøhr Elkær

    Hi Thomas. I'm still missing the æøå (miniscule) letters in the current version at GitHub. I think I had them last year, but now they are gone.

  • Thomas

    Hi Tim! Thank you for the comment. I made a mistake when I changed the font format. Sorry for that! I have readded the letters in the last release (0.6.1).

  • Juan Alvarez

    Hi is there a way to reverse the slids so they go from top to bottom instead of bottom to top? And make a certain Y or X follow a curve instead of just X or Y?

  • Thomas

    Use a reversed base plane (z-axis negative) to reverse the slits.

    Use the Slice component to define a custom slice pattern via planes.

    Please post your questions in the bowerbird forum!

    Greetings!

  • martyn hogg

    the edges would just fall off :)

  • Thomas

    You can use the "BBSlice"-Component:

    bbsection_example.gh