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Kangaroo 0.06 is now available from the food4rhino site

http://www.food4rhino.com/project/kangaroo

Many new features and bug fixes are included - Wind, Alignment, Shear, Anchorsprings, Planarize Ngons, Trails, Planarity measurement, Vortex, Constrain to…

I am excited to announce the release of Firefly 1.006!  This is a major release and includes many new components and bug fixes, along with a number of new tutorials and example files. Here are a few notable features:

Firefly 1.006 unveils a new Arduino Code Generator component which attempts to convert any Grasshopper…

The book for the 2011 ACADIA Regional conference is available for a free download. The conference was hosted by the University of Nebraska Lincoln this past spring.

There was a request for the basic definition I used to make this image.

Process:

Choose an image, and live trace it in illustrator. Expand the live trace, and save the illustrator file. Export the live trace as a jpg or other bitmap format. 

In Rhino, import the image with the PictureFrame command. Then import the illustrator file and scale the curves to the…

Reduces material area for cutting from a series of sections.  Uses Galapagos.

Any feedback would be much appreciated.

References this post: http://www.grasshopper3d.com/profiles/blogs/sectional-modeler-for-laser

LaserMaterialOptimizer.3dm…

Ive worked all the day in this definition and I hope you like it.

With this you can:

-make ribs with notches

-use the sliders to specify the x and y spacing of a rectangular grid or

-use a custom grid (for this you just need 2 sets of lines)

-specify the thickness of the material

-atomatically place and…

Here is a component I have made for obtaining a set of almost planar surfaces for approximating a NURBS surface. This components converts mesh quad surfaces into a set of individual NURBS surfaces. If you want to use this component for manufacturing a double curved surface; you need to check the maximum deviation of quads from planar status and see if you and your manufacturing technology can tolerate this much error. Enjoy. 

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ROMA  22 - 24 LUGLIO 2011

I have released an open source plug-in which allows Grasshopper to send commands directly to AutoCAD using COM.  I have tested this on my machine running AutoCAD 2011 64-bit on Windows 7.  

I have released the source code so hopefully the bones can be used for different purposes and software versions.

If you develop a cool use for this, let me know!  I would love to feature it.

Enjoy!

The plug-in and source code are available at…

We've just published a new post highlighting the documentation work that we did using Grasshopper and Revit for the Cleveland Medical Mart.  Doing quantity takeoffs in Grasshopper was possible but we were required to submit a model to the local architect in Cleveland which forced us to create a link between Grasshopper and Revit which we've named Cricket.  The…

RGSS (rhino & grasshopper study session)　Tokyo　vol.25 will take place on 22 July.



Around 6pm, @ Yoshioka Library

http://www.japan-architect.co.jp/jp/special_features/…

Hello Everybody

First of all I must express my feelings about Grasshopper and kangaroo : Amazing work that will change the shape of design architecture and engineering.

As for my need of help. After many times of trial and error I am afraid  I will not be able to master kangaroo without good knowledge of civil engineering. So I am asking for…

A nifty little tool for creating connectors between pretty much any kind of planar surfaces which intersect themselves at the edges. 

What it basically does is to output in a ordered structure the intersecting faces (as tree branches) and their intersection line. From there on you can continue to build up your own connectors…

Ih.3dm

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A:

feed your boolean values into an integer component (this converts the data type), then use a simple 1-variable function to convert... in this case '(x + (x-1))' will do the trick.

Q:Circle Circle Intersection or Curve Curve Intersection or Tangent Circle Point

A:…

Grasshopper VB Scripting Primer, Version 2

Hoopsnake Iteration Component

Switch surface UV direction:

http://www.grasshopper3d.com/forum/topics/switch-u-v-in-surface

http://www.grasshopper3d.com/forum/topics/component-wish-surface?xg_source=activity

http://www.grasshopper3d.com/forum/topics/swap-uv

We're taking a short break from unpacking the design process for the Cleveland Medical Mart facade and have a new post focusing on the lighting studies we did for the central atrium.  Radiance, Grasshopper, and Exposure (3DSMAX) were all used to design and test various skylight configurations.  Rather than using a handful of huge skylights there…