Mac due to its versatility , but given this new laptop will be using mainly on Rhino, GH , i have some doubts whether to switch to a window based laptop.
I have a look at some high-end window laptops, Dell Alienware for example, with same specs as MBP and found the price are even more expensive than MBP , about 10-15 %.
With the new Rhino 5 is coming , will Bootcamp be good and efficient enough to run Rhino, GH and some rendering programs?
From my experience i find Rhino and Gh run smoothly on Bootcamp , but never run those programs on window based laptop myself , it's impossible for me to know the differences.
Some say BootCamp only deliver 80% performance of the program , if it's true i would really consider switching to window based laptop.
Any suggestions?
and if you suggest me to switch , what brand should i go for ?
Thank you,
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tunities offering new tools and ways to understand dataflow, performance analysis, logic constructions, etc. Over that statement, I've always observed that a definition is full of information at component level or small groups, but that informed-user-feeling disappears exponentially while you zoom out an get a more general picture of a big definition (small definitions are not a problem due to the good level of information supplied at that zoom factor).
So I though, why not to use this graphic potential to lead to a more complete data representation at low zoom factors in big/very big definitions? Have you ever noticed how annoying is to review big definitions captures printed in A1 project panels? These captures lack any kind of useful information (even if you are an expert in GH)...you can only conclude looking at them how organized or well planed was the definition coding process...but nothing else (not really, you can conclude other stuff, but not at the level that you could expect from a graphic-centric coding tool). Some users has invented ways to give more data to third-person users/tutors...: using panels with text scaled up, using scribble components, importing drawings from rhino...is even more frustrating if you want to explain how the definition works using one of those captures...there are not landmarks, etc to support your speech.
All this lead us to include certain components search (by name, plugin, tab...) into our mapping tool. Could be nice to be able to stack several layers of information visually, and it could lead to a better understanding on GH definitions as a whole and not as small pieces linked together.
Sorry for the big "tocho"...like we say in Spanish.
By the way, the histogram thing sounds great :D…
Added by Ángel Linares at 5:36am on November 6, 2015
uld draw, lets say opening locations which would then trigger certain code. Its fairly easy to convert formating, a cell with a certain color, to code, so in a way I would be using excel as a super basic cad program to manage lists of data. In order to do this I need to be able to call some Excel commands from Rhino and to add some functionality to LAN's rhino to excel script (http://www.livearchitecture.net/archives/1516) I would like to be able to get the Ubounds and dimension of an array or a list. . . ie somehow get the equivelenat number of rows and columns of an incoming list of data and then use this to generate some graphics in excel but . . . . It seems that the sytax for excel Vb script via interoperability
marshaling is a bit different:1)I can not use
the set command ie Set range 2) it does not allow me to use the typical excel
syntax such as:
Worksheets("Sheet1"). Range("A1:D4").BorderAround
ColorIndex:=3, Weight:=xlThick
I get the following errors
Error: Method arguments must be enclosed in parentheses. (line 114)
Error: Name 'xlThick' is not declared. (line 114)
Is their an alternate way to write the Excel commands? Or is there something I need to do in Rhino? Any advice would be appreciated.
Best,
Ben…
Added by Ben Fortunato at 11:10am on February 27, 2010
ard to find example...
I do not know how to load windows form and send data to object in form.vb...using grasshopper sdk.
it is the same,, when I try to use dll(class) with VB component in grasshopper.
may be I have to make two class (class1, form1) but,
when I send data to class1, form1 can not receive class1 data because form 1 made new class1 and both class1, class1(from form1) is different session?
for novice programer,, for me it is very hard.
load class1,
class1 load form1
send data from grasshopper to form1. x
and button click
couldn't calculated,... result was always "0"
and tried many other methods,, but it failed...
may be some known technic but it is hard to find books...
Please...help me.
if possible would you tell me how to load form1 using grasshopper sdk and ""send data "" to form1
or form1 could use data from grasshopper?
Thank you....
for ex)
'(in class.vb)
Public Class Class1 Private Shared fl As Form1 Public Sub fload() If fl Is Nothing Then fl = New Form1 fl.Show() End If End SubEnd Class
'(in form1.vb)
Public Class Form1 Public x, y As Double Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
ab(x, y) MsgBox("hi" & y) End Sub Sub ab(ByRef a As Double, ByRef b As Double) b = a * 2 End SubEnd Class
'(in Grasshopper VB.component)
Dim cl As ClassLibrary1.Class1 If cl Is Nothing And f = True Then cl = New Class1 cl.fload() End If Dim fr As ClassLibrary1.Form1 If fr Is Nothing Then fr = New Form1 End If fr.x = x a = fr.y…
er, i hae drawn a quck sketch. Different curves in blue and orange colour. i have marked on my sketch which is a a non-planar surface.
At the moment, i have modeled this with NURBS curve component (component without Knots & Weights). I have set 5 to its 'P' intput (I'm going to reduce it to 3). Each point having 3 parameters X, Y & X axis. I have set my slider from -100mm to 100mm range. It is a closed curve.
If i just loft it, i get random results which i donot want. I can get a planar surface if i set Z parameter to zero. But how do i get a non planar and preferably a burbs surface?
the curves are very important to this projects. as Whole form is dependent on these curves.
Your tips will be highly appreciated. If you have different way of modelling it, I'm open to suggestion too.
cheers,
aB…
and perpframes
3) Ellipse on perframes
4) Series + Move + Series + Scale + Series + rotate (to create generations)
5) Divide curve (ellipse) + Dispatch only seleced points + join those points on ellipse using Intercurve + Divide the resulting intercurve
6) List items (I used list items 4 times, you could do as many). For 'i' parameter in list item i used slider to create generations. depending upon your definition, at this stage you might have to flatten your list output
7) joint the points you get from list output to form another intercurve + repeat that for all items.
8) Loft the curve
9) to form fenestrations, i again used rhino closed curves.
8) Project curve onto surface + copy trim + surface to mesh + mesh thickening from WB.
Hope this helps
Cheers
aB
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his project. Attached is my latest script. It seems to work for all points & directions of gravity except when the points are at equal height (in the reference plane the script creates, not in the world space). In other words, when the vector from A to B is perpendicular to the gravity vector, it doesn't work. It's totally due to the formulas used to solve for distance (see script), but I haven't found a way to fix it to make it work. Kudos to anyone that can help me figure it out!
Other notes: Required input: Point A, Point B, Gravity vector, and desired Height and/or desired chain/arch Length. Cool trick: when inputting both Height and Length, it recalculates the end point (point B) with those desired parameters, and the end point lies along the AB vector. Also, the "x" output shows either the found height, length, or distance (when both height & length are input), and "newPl" just shows the reference plane used to make calculations easier.
Cheers…
Added by Will McElwain at 11:52pm on January 18, 2014
med that a 1000 lux measurement for a particular hour on a workplane grid point will indicate a illuminance from direct sun at that point. If I remember correctly, these simulations are to be run without the presence of any shading devices.
From an ASE calculation perspective, there are several shortcomings within Daysim (as it exists right now). The daylight coefficient method, which Daysim employs, calculates illuminance by dividing the sky into discrete patches. (http://naturalfrequency.com/wiki/sky-subdivision) For a clear sky with sun, the luminance from sun is accounted for by approximating the position of sun into 3 (as far as I know) patches. That in turn leads to an incorrect estimation of both position and luminance contribution of the sun.
Anyways, as I wrote in the begining, in my opinion the closest you'd get to calculating ASE from daysim right now would be running an annual daylighting calculation with Honeybee by setting ambient bounces as zero. A better approach, in case you are not trying to comply with something like leed v4, would be to do a DGP analysis as Chris mentioned in his post.
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