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Mike Calvino replied to Jon Mirtschin's discussion IFC (Industry Foundation Classes) in the group Geometry Gym BIM

"Thanks for the summary Jon! Are there tools in RhinoIFC or Bullant yet to generate tables, schedules, & lists directly from or in Rhino/Grasshopper?"

Apr 30

Mike Calvino commented on quitronic's blog post Metaball / Surface of Revolution Ribs Machine

"http://www.grasshopper3d.com/forum/topics/metaball-of-revolution-ribs-machine I posted the files there again, I hope it's cool. There's one more called Orthogonal ribs machine, but I'm not sure if quitronic did it or not,…"

Apr 8

Mike Calvino posted a discussion

Metaball of Revolution Ribs Machine

Here is he metaball and surface of revolution machines that quitronic posted in 2010.The link is gone no & there's some interest in it. I hope it's ok that I posted here.There's a demo .3dm file that goes with it.Cheers!See More

Apr 8

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Mike Calvino replied to Victor Leung's discussion CAM Plugin for three axis router

"By Outline Extractor I mean you can select a brep in a model (say a flat piece that will be cut from steel or aluminum sheet or plate) and then generate a 2d line drawing of the outline & holes of the piece, that is mapped to the world XY plane…"

Mar 19

Mike Calvino replied to Victor Leung's discussion CAM Plugin for three axis router

"This is some great work Victor, What a great start! I'm not sure if I'll be able to add anything to your efforts, but I'm looking over the plug-in & may try some parts & adding a 2d part extractor in the next few…"

Mar 17

Mike Calvino replied to Victor Leung's discussion CAM Plugin for three axis router

"Hi Victor, Have you looked at Rab Gordon's CncToolKit - the plug-in for 3dxMax? It's open source & maybe someone can translate parts of that to Grasshopper Is this a possibility? I have been able to modify the…"

Mar 17

Mike Calvino replied to Mike Calvino's discussion Latest Build?

"Thanks, that makes more sense, Just wanted to make sure I didn't miss anything. It was a hull design definition that it looks like was done with some collaboration with Rhino, so that would make sense. I thought I was really missing…"

Feb 18

Hannes Löschke replied to Mike Calvino's discussion Latest Build?

"You probably tried to open a definition David Rutten posted. He might also have said, that he used his developer version to create it. There is no released 0.9.0015 as of now. If you get no additional errors, you can safely ignore this message."

Feb 18

Mike Calvino posted a discussion

Latest Build?

I downloaded the latest build: grasshopper_wip_20121030. I ran the install. ran it in Rhino5, September 28, 2012, version 0.9.0014. The date on the file above is 2012-10-30 & I loaded a shared ghx file that loaded but said that it was compiled using 0.9.0015. I tried deleting the entire folder in program files x86 (& no others were present, even in program files (x64), then re-installed the 20121030 file, but same date September28,2012 & version 0.9.0014 shows up in About.Am I…See More

Feb 18

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Remy (RMDeveloppements) replied to Mike Calvino's discussion Using Block as input

"Hey Andrew, Please look my comment."

Nov 15, 2012

Mike Calvino replied to Mike Calvino's discussion Using Block as input

"Cool Andrew, I'll check it out."

Nov 13, 2012

vwwv replied to Mike Calvino's discussion Using Block as input

"Thanks for the information... very usefull."

Nov 13, 2012

Remy (RMDeveloppements) replied to Mike Calvino's discussion Using Block as input

"Hi Andrew, Can I transfer this plugin with a hierarchy of blocks, hierarchy of slap Thanks"

Nov 13, 2012

Andrew Heumann replied to Mike Calvino's discussion Using Block as input

"My HDT Utilities Add-on allows you to manipulate blocks - you can get the geometry from block instances in Rhino, and place block instances in rhino as well. Both of these situations are covered in the example definitions included with the add…"

Nov 13, 2012

Mike Calvino posted a discussion

Using Block as input

Is there a component that can use a block as an input parameter & then be able to see/use the components in the block to manipulate & extract data that is part of the block? If not, is it a possibility that something like that is in the works?Cheers!--MikeSee More

Nov 13, 2012

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Tyler Selby replied to Mike Calvino's discussion Emergency Stop for solution calculation

"Late in developing a definitions I often might need to make a few changes when there are a lot of items already flowing along each of the connection lines. Sometimes I need to experiment around a bit, which…"

Oct 15, 2012