tructures)
Bad news: real-life AEC trusses are far and away from lines.
Ugly news: Rhino is NOT an AEC app by any means nor it would ever be. For AEC app I mean the known 3 (Allplan, Revit and my favorite: AECOSim) and/or proper MCAD apps (like CATIA/NX). In plain English : without exporting (meaning (a) bake in nested blocks + (b) export via STEP) proper structured data (assembly/component) this WIP case is absolutely useless.
why may you ask.
well ... trusses are made with numerous shop drawings like this, that's why:
more soon.
best, Peter…
some weird engine, you know, he he) IS NOT like designing plain vanilla AEC things.
Therefore features/calculation methods/capabilities as found in MCAD apps (considered off topic by many in our trade) are mandatory for certain types of designs.
Anyway and if we forget FEA stuff, currently I have 3 C# goals:
(1) master the art of controlling the placement of existed blocks in GH defined topology(done),
(2) master the art of baking blocks(done) and
(3) master the art of baking heavily nested blocks that NX/Catia can understand (progress is slow).
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te and anything you can remove is a benefit (I also find it looks much better, but this is personal taste).
Of course, there are far fewer things going on at the screen on a phone than in a computer. It's very possible this doesn't translate well into an interface for a software like Rhino. I've also had no problems using Windows 8 and a few simple 'metro apps' but these are simple apps that don't compare the complexity of CAD software.
Even Microsoft hasn't gone full metro in the desktop. They did however remove a lot of superfluous shadows, bevels and effects and it looks much better than in Windows 7 in my opinion.
In every new version of Windows I always resented they just added new effects and decorations to the UI without adding much to usability and only slowing down the system. I've found it strange that for the first time that I think they are moving in the right direction Microsoft receives the biggest backlash ever for it. Apparently I have a very heterodox view on good UI and when people were complaining on the superfluous decorations of previous windows installments they didn't really mean it, they just had an axe to grind with the company.…
nite a zillion of "solids" (closed polysurfaces in Rhino speech) you need a decent solid CAD app. Rhino is a surface modeller ... meaning that you should narrow your search towards the right girl.
3. Personally I work with Microstation (same 3d core engine as Siemens/NX [ParaSolids]) and CATIA/NX. The difference in speed for doing things like these ... well ... find a friend who works with any of these and experience it first hand. …
lass BrepDeform Inherits GH_Component Public Reslist As New List(Of String) Public Sub New() MyBase.New("BrepDeform", "Deform", _ "移动物件的控制点" & vbCrLf & "(Move the control Point to change a object)", "SEG", "Modify")
End Sub Public Overrides ReadOnly Property ComponentGuid As System.Guid Get Return New Guid("8226e0ea-ed6b-47c2-8a24-244f044152d8") End Get End Property Protected Overrides ReadOnly Property Internal_Icon_24x24() As System.Drawing.Bitmap Get Return My.Resources.SEG_BrepDeform End Get End Property Protected Overrides Sub RegisterInputParams(ByVal pManager As GH_Component.GH_InputParamManager) ' pManager.AddTextParameter("Guid", "Id", "将要被替换的犀牛物件" & vbCrLf & "(RhinoObjects that will be replaced)", GH_ParamAccess.item) 'Dim guidParam As New Param_Guid pManager.AddParameter(New Param_Guid, "Guid", "Id", "将要被替换的犀牛物件" & vbCrLf & "(RhinoObjects that will be replaced)", GH_ParamAccess.item) pManager.AddPointParameter("ControlPoint3d", "C", "控制点的位置" & vbCrLf & "(Control Point's location)", GH_ParamAccess.item) pManager.AddPointParameter("NewPoint3d", "P", "新控制点的位置" & vbCrLf & "(New Control Point's location)", GH_ParamAccess.item) pManager.AddNumberParameter("Tolerace", "T", "输入点与物件实际控制点对比的精度" & vbCrLf & "(Tolerace for the Control Point match)", GH_ParamAccess.item, 0.1)
pManager.AddBooleanParameter("BlMove", "M", "如果是True则进行移动" & vbCrLf & "(If true Perform the Move)", GH_ParamAccess.item, False)
End Sub Protected Overrides Sub RegisterOutputParams(ByVal pManager As Kernel.GH_Component.GH_OutputParamManager) pManager.AddTextParameter("Result", "RG", "结果列表" & vbCrLf & "(Result)", GH_ParamAccess.list) End Sub Public Overrides ReadOnly Property Exposure As GH_Exposure Get Return GH_Exposure.primary End Get End Property
Protected Overrides Sub SolveInstance(ByVal DA As Kernel.IGH_DataAccess) If Banner.astrict.showmessage Then Return Dim Ids As Guid = Guid.Empty 'Dim Ids As String = String.Empty Dim tpt As Point3d = Point3d.Unset, opt As Point3d = Point3d.Unset Dim tolar As Double = 0.1 Dim blMove As Boolean = False If Not DA.GetData(0, Ids) Then Return If Not DA.GetData(1, opt) Then Return If Not DA.GetData(2, tpt) Then Return If Not DA.GetData(3, tolar) Then Return If Not DA.GetData(4, blMove) Then Return If Not blMove Then GoTo line1 Reslist.Add(Now & "_未替换!(Replace failed!)") Else Reslist.Clear() ' Grasshopper.Instances.ActiveCanvas.ModifiersEnabled = False End If
' rt.AddRange(docobjlist.Select(Function(geoobj As RhinoObject) GH_Convert.ObjRefToGeometry(New ObjRef(geoobj.Id)))) 'Private Checked(5) As Boolean, Namestr() As String = {"Point", "Curve", "Brep", "Mesh", "TextDot", "TextEntity"}
Try
Dim rh As RhinoDoc = Rhino.RhinoDoc.ActiveDoc Dim rhobj As RhinoObject = rh.Objects.Find(Ids) ' Dim rhobj As RhinoObject = rh.Objects.Find(New Guid(Ids))
Dim bobj As BrepObject = CType(rhobj, BrepObject) RhinoApp.RunScript("Cancel", False) RhinoApp.RunScript("Cancel", False) bobj.Select(True)
RhinoApp.RunScript("_SolidPtOn", False) Dim gobjs As GripObject() = bobj.GetGrips ' rh.Views.RedrawEnabled = False For Each grpobj As GripObject In gobjs
If grpobj.CurrentLocation.DistanceTo(opt) < tolar Then grpobj.Select(True) Dim CurrentPln As Plane = RhinoDoc.ActiveDoc.Views.ActiveView.ActiveViewport.ConstructionPlane Dim tropt As New Point3d(opt), trtpt As New Point3d(tpt) tropt.Transform(Transform.PlaneToPlane(Plane.WorldXY, CurrentPln)) trtpt.Transform(Transform.PlaneToPlane(Plane.WorldXY, CurrentPln))
Dim movestr As String = "_move " + String.Format("{0},{1},{2} ", tropt.X, tropt.Y, tropt.Z) + String.Format("{0},{1},{2} _Cancel _Cancel", trtpt.X, trtpt.Y, trtpt.Z) RhinoApp.RunScript(movestr, True) grpobj.Select(False) End If
Next
'RhinoApp.RunScript("Cancel", False) 'RhinoApp.RunScript("Cancel", False) '' rh.Views.RedrawEnabled = True Reslist.Add(Now & "_替换成功!(Replace Success!)") Catch ex As Exception Reslist.Add(Now & "_替换失败!(Replace failed!)" & vbCrLf & ex.Message)
End Try ' Grasshopper.Instances.ActiveCanvas.ModifiersEnabled = True
line1: DA.SetDataList(0, Reslist) End Sub
'Private Sub Testt_PingDocument(sender As IGH_DocumentObject, e As GH_PingDocumentEventArgs) Handles Me.PingDocument ' Dim Mbool = Aggregate bcbool In Checked Into cb = Any(bcbool)
' If Not Mbool Then ' Checked(0) = True ' Message = Namestr(0) ' Order = 0 ' End If 'End Sub
End Class
The picture below shows the two question.
Question One I must use data dam, or the component can't batch deal the brep. I don't know why, I have You can give me a solution to make it working normal not using the data dam
Question Two I can not uset the Button component, If I use it, the gh canvas will die with some mouse event--. I have see this problem before in this forum,but there is no solution and explain. I want to know why and How to solve it.
I don't know if I have made my question clear,if not give a message. Thank you! Thank you all.
The gh test file and 3dm test file in the upload files.
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to run at full screen. I've gone as far as using an iPad to use as the second monitor via AirDisplay (which actually works really well) but have never been satisfied with any setup that required you to look back and forth as if at a tennis match all day long.
Not long after first using Grasshopper 3+ years ago I've had the desire for a "Live Viewport" component that would allow a live image of the 3d geometry being generated directly in the canvas. Every once in a while I search the forums with the hope of finding a solution, but always come up empty handed. Someday this might exist although for now I have found what might be the next best thing to a native "Live Viewport" component and its enabled with a small app named Sticky Previews. This app uses the task bar preview feature within Windows 7's aero interface to create custom, floating preview windows from any open window currently running. I've only just discovered the app, but it seems to do the trick and has been stable and problem free so far. -- I will post an update if I find out that I might have spoken too soon. The install allows for a 30 day trial and is $15 bucks to purchase. I just found the app and don't know anything about this group that created the app. If you happen to know of them, Id be curious to find out more.
divided windows, cramped and slow;
unified window with floating rhino model preview;
link to the apps webpage;
http://www.ntwind.com/software/sticky-previews.html
Also works with other apps;
and the about me page screen shot;
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Added by Tyler Selby at 11:25pm on November 26, 2012
UI - obvious if you recall who's developing MODO):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5Fd2jOgus4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkYwpyZNJcs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pK3Q9BQSK4w
A small "bit" coming directly from the US movie industry:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syZdi08_Sco&list=PLIHQjWXPloi_Q...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPj_Ey2IT9E
2. Trad AEC BIM apps (AECOSim - my favorite, Revit - no thanks, Allplan - no thanks) use RPC cells for similar tasks (an RPC cell is in fact a "DataTree" of images). In the past I did several figure animations (I'm not doing this any more: boring to the max):
http://help.archvision.com/products/bentley-microstation/getting-st...
3. Maya of course does everything (it's a unique amalgam of mesh and nurbs tools), but is totally unsuitable for AEC work.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVViMQHjjMw
So, assuming that you are in the AEC bandwagon, your options are:
a. AECOSim as the total "umbrella" for AEC matters.
b. MODO as the most innovative app out there.
c. Quest3D as the best VR app out there.…
it within the same smart umbrella? Or put it differently: is it worthy to exploit/consider/evaluate GH methods and development orientations that could "approximate" Utopia?
Let's split the case into segments:
The parametric part thing (although critical) is complex and rather beyond the scope of GH. Affects Rhino far more than GH. That said Microstation has 3 levels for doing this (but forget Microstation and/or Gen Comp).
So for a start we can focus in GH acting as a "composer" in 3D place of all the required (hopefully real) parts for the job. Parts must be nested AND readable as such by an external AEC app.
I'll post here (soon I do hope) all the parts that are required for assembling this. I mean individual static "blocks" that we assume (wrongly) that remain static: I mean we presuppose that the whole GH geometry is fixed (thus this is really a smart sketch of some sort) and no further changes are on schedule (that MAY affect parts).
That said I prefer an incomplete Utopia (one thing that "does" it all, or it thinks that does it) than a myriad of individual apps that take input one from the other and promise the Holly Grail (and/or delivering it). The core reason that I use Microstation as my basic platform is exactly that (obviously with a certain price to pay: bugs, shortcomings, wrong concepts in places etc etc etc).
Best, Peter
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lines, dedicated MCAD apps, BIM apps, team work AND elevators as well: if you design something "variable" and then attempt to service it via a "static way" (Revit) you'll discover that you are wasting your time. I can list you a lot of WOW towers that failed on that (elevator) matter ... but this wouldn't be polite for the designers: so let's continue.
2. The other critical thing is the system that does the skin: since "liquid" is the new WOW (it shouldn't) the task of "faceting" a facade and doing it with a system that doesn't leak (in the long term), doesn't pop the panels out of the frames and it doesn't cost the GNP of Nigeria ... well ... is not that simple.
3. It's a very common mistake for some future Architect to "skip" (even mentally) "trivial" matters like these ... but if you get used on this type of thinking you'll gonna pay a heavy price (as an Architect).
So my advise is: whilst you are after "form(s)" sketch frantically the nuts and bits of that form (not to mention ... er ... hmm... the elevators, he he).
best…
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