Grasshopper

algorithmic modeling for Rhino

Hi,

I am working with a grasshopper definition with too many surfaces and this makes it impossible to move the sliders in order to see the variations of the components. Is there any way to reduce the quality of the previsualization, or anything to make it work faster?

Thank you,

Martina

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I just use miniaturized Panels and manually change the numbers.

You can indeed turn off preview mesh generation at the far right of the toolbar via the mesh quality menu, then you get a wireframe preview which can be much faster for some complex models.

Thank you Nik. What are these minitaturized panels you are talking about? I tried with turning everything to wireframe preview but I still can't move the sliders. Any other idea?

I avoid sliders most of the time because of the silly lack of a responsive slider delay option that would only activate when you stop dragging for a moment.

The Panel component once placed on the canvas can simply be resized to a similarly long thin size as a slider. You can also double click sliders to access a dialog box version of the slider that is usually fully responsive and doesn't kick in until you close the dialog, but a Panel with an informative name given to it to label it seems more convenient to me in use.

I also use panels a lot, the main catch is that they have to be casted from text to the type you want (numbers, integers, domains).

If a panel is connected directly to a component that has a huge list of elements connected to another input, the cast is performed every time the component is solved (once for each element of the longer list, assuming the input is per item). This can be huge performance hit. A quick way around this is to connect the panel to whatever parameter you want to cast to before connecting it to the component.

Wow, another variable to be aware of, thanks.

Hi, post the file and I 98% guarantee to make it 10 times faster.

I recommend you post it soon before I stop procrastinating and summon the willpower to get back to work.

Hi Vicente, 

Thank you very much! There is the file, I don't know if it will be easy to understand, it's quite long. The problem is when I try to make the thing taller, the surfaces multiply and the sliders do not work correctly. It would be amazing if you could help with this!

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Thank you for getting me back to work by procrastinating in cleaning your file. That definition is way, way more complicated that it should be.

This is a screenshot that does the same thing as your first 8 groups in a fraction of the number of components and producing a lot less intermediate geometry (internal expressions are just -x):

Wow Vicente thank you so much for this. I'm not an expert so it will take me some time to go through this, but I'm sure it will help a lot. I would appreciate if you could send me the gh file, is that possible?

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