to see if it works with a small section.
But so tell me about the moment that it freezes. Does it freeze even when loading in the file? So if you just have the component that reads the data and dont connect anything to it, can you successfully load the data and see the output has 700 000 values inside? If this already works than you can simply use the list item component to just get a few of the values and then ramp it up, like this:
So what you can see here is at first I have a series with 1 million values and then I just take a small set of that using list item with another series. The data that goes into the List Item can be anything. Already just the list item takes 1.4 seconds and the whole thing takes 3.2 seconds to calculate, which is quite long for something so simple. Rhino reports 980 MB memory usage for this. If I crank it up to 10 million the calculate time is 28.6 seconds and memory goes up to 3.2 GB. So yes I can believe that what you are trying to achieve will push the computer really hard.
Can I ask what computer you have? How much memory does it have?
To do things for an entire huge city like Paris is starting to be something you wouldn't do on your laptop or an old PC, thats why researchers and scientists have expensive workstations with large amounts of RAM. Can't you just use a smaller city or just a part of Paris? Is there a reason it has to be ALL of Paris? In the end its what you do with the data that has to be cool and not just the fact that you used A LOT of data. So rather do something really cool with a small set of data than do something thats limited because there is so much data.…
Added by Armin Seltz at 2:23am on November 4, 2015
rights to register the "mapwingis.ocx" file.Francesco, would you be patient just a tiny little bit, so that we could try something else? I would be grateful if you could.
1) Close Grasshopper and Rhino2) Run the Revo Uninstaller Pro and uninstall your MapWinGIS application along with removing all the leftovers from the registry.3) Restart your PC, and once it boots again, make sure that you are logged in as an Adminstrator.4) In your Start menu's search box type: "UAC", which will find your User Account Control Settings. Click on it, and a new window will open. Set the bar on the left to "Never notify".5) Turn off your Antivirus, which ever it is.6) Download the 64 bit version of v4.9.4.2 MapWinGIS.7) Right click on downloaded MapWinGIS-only-v4.9.4.2-x64.exe file, and choose "Properties". If there is "Unblock" button click on it, and then click on "OK". If there is no "Unblock" button, just click on "OK".8) Left double click on MapWinGIS-only-v4.9.4.2-x64.exe file and install it to "C:\dev\MapWinGIS" folder. Choose "Full installation" during installation process!9) In your Start menu's search box type: "CMD". Once the "Command prompt" appears do not left click on it! Instead right click on it, and choose "Run as Administrator".10) A command prompt window will open. Type the following command:
"your_regsvr32_folder_path\regsvr32.exe" /u /s c:\dev\mapwingis\mapwingis.ocx
If command does not result in an error message, then type this one afterwards:
"your_regsvr32_folder_path\regsvr32.exe" /s c:\dev\mapwingis\mapwingis.ocx
11) If no error appeared again, then open your Rhino and Grasshopper and check what Gismo_Gismo component prints from its "readMe!" output.If errors appeared, it would be nice if you could post their screenshots.…
Added by djordje to Gismo at 5:46am on March 27, 2017
pper" in the command line in Rhino:
"Unable to load Grasshopper.dll plug-in: Rhino version not specified."
Details of the command line are as follows:
Command: GrasshopperRhino.NET plug-in: C:\Program Files\Rhinoceros 4.0\Plug-ins\Grasshopper\Grasshopper.dll> - referenced assembly count: 20> - mscorlib> - Microsoft.VisualBasic> - System.Windows.Forms> - GH_IO> - System.Drawing> - System> - RhinoCommon> - GH_Util> - OpenTK.GLControl> - QWhale.Editor> - QWhale.Syntax> - QWhale.Syntax.Parsers> - System.Core> - System.Design> - System.Xml> - System.Data> - OpenTK> - QWhale.Common> - System.Xml.Linq> - System.ServiceModel> Rhino.NET error: unable to locate a reference to Rhino_DotNET.DLL> Unable to load Grasshopper.dll plug-in: Rhino version not specified.
I tried creating the new user and looks like that one works too, but I do need my current "user" profile as there are a lot of things already set up well, do not want to miss those.
If someone could advise me on where to look for the problem?
Thank you,
Artem
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surface which are fully inside it(each cell's area should be 100% inside surface).
Idea how to do this:
Use Surface|Curve to cut the grid of cells to the surface --->
---> Area to get centroids of those cells --->
---> Dispatch using as pattern distances of cells' centroids from polyline to have in one of list those that are fully within the surface --->
---> Dispatch using as pattern distances of cells' centroids from curves (that defy holes) to have in one of list those that are fully within the surface
Problem:
Cannot use Area to extract centroids. Ironically, when I click on the Area button is shows me centroids of all of cells that are fully inside surface but button is red so I cannot progress.
I tried using Split Surface too (instead of Surface|Curve) but it crashed my PC, even after flattening input data.
I'm a newbie and looked for answer but did not manage to find topic that would relate to my problem. Maybe I formulate my questions in wrong way.
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phere with the maximum number of triangles but not much than a defined threshold.
I scaled that mesh just to fit Rhino grid, but it is not mandatory. What is useful, is to scale not uniformly the mesh (Scale NU). It could be done after cellular modifier applied or before or before and after. The 3 options are possible in the script. If you don’t need them just put 1 in scale sliders.
Ellipsoid mesh is the populated with points, I put 2 independents populations to randomize a bit further. For each vertices of the mesh the closest distance from the populated points is calculated.
Here is an illustration in color of this distance.
This distance is then used to calculate a bump. If domain for bump is beginning with negatives values to 0, it carves the mesh. Instead it bumps/inflates it.
Some images to illustrate the difference with populating 100 points with one or two populations.
Here some images to illustrate the application of scale before carving or after.
Next phase apply noise. At the moment I don't find it good.…
eaningful. Humans must interact with it. Information arises when humans examine the data. Knowledge is created when information is transformed through human social interactions.”
Richard Gayle via spacecollective
The space in which we live can be monitored in many aspects and appears to be to be a gradient of data in continuous evolution and change. One of the major advantages of parametric tools is to be able to inform the design processes with accurate, specific and variable, in space and time, data streams .
DATA BODIES is a Grasshopper workshop that will focus on how its nature as an information processor and how it can be (ab)used in order to manipulate data, streaming inputs from various sources and use datafeeds to inform geometry or data structures from the very simple up to more complex ones. The aim is to give an understanding of information and data articultion as already a spatial and architectural operation; results may range from pure data communication protocols, dataviz or data-driven geometries depending on the skill levels and aspirations of each participant. The brief is also open to the suggestions and opportunities that may rise during the workflow.
DETAILS: http://www.superbelleville.org/dataworkshop/…
connected hyperspace where architecture can be fluid, flexible and vivid, yet the aspect of materiality requires more attention.
Action-designed structures begin to move beyond the utopian proposals of the 20th century’s manifestos and hold a place in the world of realized designs. The AA Athens Visiting School aims to bring users closer to the built environment while revisiting habits of designing, building and experiencing space through materiality. Understanding materiality and form as a ‘unified whole’, the programme integrates manufacturing techniques through the experimentation fabrication of prototypes at a 1:1 scale.
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Participants become part of an active learning environment where the large tutor to student ratio allows for personalized tutorials and debates.
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Participants gain hands-on experience on digital fabrication.
Design seminars and a series of lectures support the key objectives of the programme, disseminating fundamental computational techniques, relevant critical thinking, theoretical understanding and professional awareness.
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The deadline for applications is 28 June.
Location AKTO College – Athens Campus 11Α Evelpidon Street (Pedion Areos) Athens, 113 62, Greece
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The AA Visiting School requires a fee of £695 per participant, which includes a £60 Visiting membership fee. Fees do not include flights or accommodation, but accommodation options can be advised.
Eligibility The workshop is open to current Undergrad and Graduate architecture and design students, PhD candidates and young professionals. Software Requirements: Adobe Creative Suite, Rhino 5.
For more information, please visit:
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greatly appreciate it!!
You can write the number of the question and write your answer next to it, example:
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whole design intent, but this is what Inventor is good at. The way it packages bits of 'scripted' components into 'little models' that can be stored and re-assembled is central to MCAD working.
The Inventor model shown is almost 5 years old. We don't model like that any more, however it does offer a good idea of general MCAD modeling approaches.
iParts is useful in certain situations, it could've been useful in the above model, its usefulness is often in function of the quantity of variants/configurations.
So much is scripted in GH, maybe it should also be possible to script/define/constrain/assist the placement/gluing of the results?
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Starting point: I think we are talking across purposes. AFAIK, the solving sequence of GH's scripted components is fixed. It won't do circular dependencies... without a fight. The inter-component dependencies not 'managed' like constraints solvers do for MCAD apps.
Components and assemblies are individual files in MCAD.
Placement of these within assemblies in MCAD is a product of matrix transforms and persistent constraints. There is no bi-directional link, the link is unidirectional (downflow only), because of the use of proxies.
Consequently, scripting the placement of components is irrelevant in GH, unless you decide that each component needs to be contained in its own separate file.
This also brings up the point that generating components and assemblies in MCAD is not as straightforward. In iParts and iAssemblies, each configuration needs to be generated as a "child" (the individual file needs to be created for each child) before those children can be used elsewhere.
You notice the dilemma, if you generate 100 parts, and then you realize you only need 20, you've created 80 extra parts which you have no need for, thus generating wasteful data that may cause file management issues later on.
GH remains in a transient world, and when you decide to bake geometry (if you need to at all), you can do that in one Rhino file, and save it as the state of the design at that given moment. Very convenient for design, though unacceptable for most non-digital manufacturing methods, which greatly limits Rhino's use for manufacturing unless you combine it with an MCAD app.
One of the reasons why the distributed file approach makes perfect sense in MCAD, is that in industry you deal with a finite set of objects. Generative tools are usually not a requirement. Most mechanical engineers, product engineers and machinists would never have any use for that.
The other thing that MCAD apps like Inventor have, is the 'structured' interface that offers up all that setting out information like the coordinate systems, work planes, parameters etc in a concise fashion in the 'history tree'. This will translate into user speed. GH's canvas is a bit more freeform. I suppose the info is all there and linked, so a bit of re-jigging is easy. Also, see how T-Flex can even embed sliders and other parameter input boxes into the model itself. Pretty handy/fast to understand, which also means more speed.
True. As long as you keep the browser pane/specification tree organized and easy to query.
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Would love to understand what you did by sketching.
I'll start by showing what was done years ago in the Inventor model, and then share with you what I did in GH, but in another post.
Let's use one of the beams as an example:
We can isolate this component for clarity.
Notice that I've highlighted the sectional sketch with dimensions, and the point of reference, which is in relation to the CL of the column which the beam bears on. The orientation and location of the beam is already set by underlying geometry.
Here's a perspective view of the same:
The extent of the beam was also driven by reference geometry, 2 planes offset from the beam's XY plane, driven by parameters from another underlying file which serves as a parameter container:
Reference axes and points are present for all other components, here are some of them:
It starts getting cluttered if you see the reference planes as well:
Is I mentioned earlier, over time we've found better ways to define and associate geometry, parameters, manage design change, improving the efficiency of parametric models. But this model is a fair representation of a basic modeling approach, and since an Inventor-GH comparison is like comparing apples and oranges anyways, this model can be used to understand the differences and similarities, for those interested.
I haven't even gotten to your latest post yet, I will eventually.…
Added by Santiago Diaz at 10:36am on February 26, 2011