WISH: Rename Fillet Components

Hi David,

Just a small wish. Would be possible to rename the 3 Fillet components to differentiate their use.

I use the Icons so it never occurred to me before but I just had to suggest which one to use to someone else and it struck me that 2 of these components have both nickname and name identical.

Could there be a distinction that the Fillet Radius and Fillet Distance components have a plural ie. Fillets

Leaving Fillet Parameter singular. similar to pFrame and pFrames

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Permalink Reply by David Rutten on November 19, 2013 at 11:12am

A large renaming effort will be part of GH2. There are three things we want to accomplish with that:

Consistency
Self-documentation
Invoke unambiguity

Consistency is hopefully obvious. We need to start using the same words to describe the same things everywhere. We also need to use words that are reasonably obvious to someone who hasn't seen them used before in this context. Sometimes that will be difficult ('Brep', 'Nurbs', 'Tree' etc.).

Now that Python can invoke Grasshopper components by name (and we'll try to add this functionality for VB/C# as well come GH2), it's no longer a good idea to have the same name appear twice. Or to have a name which only makes sense in the context of a specific tab/panel. I.e. 'Explode' bad, 'Explode Brep', 'Explode Curve' good.

David Rutten

david@mcneel.com

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