Bifocals -- Ending the Icons vs. Text debate

NBBJ Digital Practice is happy to release Bifocals, a plugin that labels all of your Grasshopper components with their full names as you drop them on the canvas.

Great for teaching university courses, seminars, making video tutorials, or posting images to the forums! No matter what mode you are in -- icons or text -- everyone can follow along.

Written by Marc Syp, Digital Practice and Design Computation Leader at NBBJ.

Download at Food4Rhino:

http://www.food4rhino.com/project/bifocals?ufh

Watch the walkthrough at Vimeo:

https://vimeo.com/156348816

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Replies to This Discussion

Permalink Reply by Daniel González Abalde on February 24, 2016 at 10:49am

Thank you!

Permalink Reply by Sergey Dmitriev on February 24, 2016 at 11:47am

Thanks!
There are a few comments:
1. Do not sign those components that are already in the group - should sign.
2. The new group appears in the background - you can not edit. It is necessary that the signatures were in the background.

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Permalink Reply by NBBJ Architects on February 24, 2016 at 11:55am

Hi Sergey --

Thanks for the feedback. The behaviour with single-object groups is still a little funky and I'm open to considering new ways of dealing with it. I'm curious, though, what is it in particular that you are trying to accomplish? If I understand how/why you are mucking around with single-object groups (with no labels), I can be more strategic about how I handle them.

Thanks,

Marc

Permalink Reply by Sergey Dmitriev on February 24, 2016 at 1:26pm

For example in this situation. Sense in that all components were signed. Not important - in group they or not. Maybe other people do not do that, but I do. If this is difficult to implement and requires a lot of time - probably not worth the time. The main task has been solved!

Permalink Reply by NBBJ Architects on February 26, 2016 at 2:32pm

Hi Sergey --

Ok, I'll think about this. Might make some changes or might leave as is, will have to experiment a bit to find the best solution.

Cheers,

Marc

Permalink Reply by Amir Soltani on February 24, 2016 at 3:58pm

Very useful! thank you.

Permalink Reply by Jelena on March 9, 2016 at 9:39am

Great idea, very nice!

Permalink Reply by Diego on March 10, 2016 at 3:38pm

Great work!!! To bad tomorrow is the last day of my GH workshop... XD

Permalink Reply by Carl Royce on March 14, 2017 at 7:45am

I'd love to be able to use Bifocals in Rhino/Gh for Mac. Is there a way to install on Mac with or without the Bifocals.exe file?

Thank you

Permalink Reply by Carl Royce on March 22, 2017 at 6:20pm

Update - I was able to install the .exe file with the help of WineBottler for Mac. The .ghx file was installed into the WineBottler 'C Drive' folder, and I moved it into the Gh Library folder. Works great.

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