Is there an easy way to save numbers from one list to another?

Sometimes I decompose Z,X and Y values from points and cannot plug the coordinates into a new vector point but need to transfer the coordinates though.

Does that make sense? Can someone help?

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Permalink Reply by David Rutten on October 11, 2009 at 8:22pm

It doesn't make sense to me, can you provide an example?

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David Rutten
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Permalink Reply by Theunis du Toit on October 12, 2009 at 2:44am

I actually don't want to mention it again, but its related to transferring geometry from Rhino into Grasshopper because I think this gave you a head ache last time and it seems you get an abysmal amount of requests.

The only current way to do that is with X,Y and Z points, as far as I know. So to "save" a curve into GH I need to get points and then transfer every X,Y and Z coordinate manually into GH for my new curve.

Would it be difficult to be able to some how save the numbers in the x,y,z inputs.

What I thought would be nice is if you could plug the coordinates into the new vector point component and then select save current numbers and then disconnect the input and the coordinate numbers stay as if you manually put them in. I'm guessing the easiest way is to have a component that does just that specifically, that "catches numbers". I think you might have mentioned in a previous discussion it might not be too hard to save strings, numbers and points in GH. Maybe a VB script component can easily do this though. I'm dealing with hundreds of these curves that I sometimes need to transfer to GH.

Thanks for your interest though.

Regards
Theunis

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Permalink Reply by Danny Boyes on October 12, 2009 at 3:59am

Hi Theunis,

You could use "stream contents" from the Panel component and then read the file in to GH like in the image below:

Permalink Reply by Theunis du Toit on October 12, 2009 at 4:49am

Hi Danny,

The file needs to be present though, and always have the same directory, so sending it to someone would mean they need to enter the new directory on their side to work, is that correct? Even so, this is still not what I need. An extra file is not better than the unwanted geometry in the Rhino file. It would be the same as an extra parameter input. It seems to be almost the same problem I have.

Thanks for the suggestion though, it gets me halfway.

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