For Miradoc,

Generating screw threads (at least if needed accurately) is intensive. There was a discussion/request for this on the Rhino newsgroup nearly a year ago. I added this functionality to my plug-in, you do need paitience. You can try it out (but you need the free trial license), download from http://www.geometrygym.com/downloads the StructDrawRhino plug-in. Any comments/suggestions for improvements will be considered.

Thanks, Jon. I'll try it ASA I got a chance. My intention was however to explore in GH a visual way of doing the same things you do in plug-ins. Maybe it's just a naif wish, and more complex tasks will be impossible to perform, but, being unable to write even the simplest line of code, for me and many others this could be a means of automating some routine tasks. I am sure this was originally David intention too. Ciao
Armido

Hey Armido,

Sure, I agree with the desire, and hopefully it gets to that level. I think Grasshopper is a brilliant tool for enabling "programming" for many users in an easier platform . To my mind, there is always likely to be a level of abstraction for many sophisticated or complex parts though. Areas such as managing the reuse of advanced solutions (ie if you need to update or correct later and you have many components in many files) might be difficult to solve, but there might be means and ways. Of course completing these tasks as learning examples etc also offer many other benefits.

Cheers,

Jon