Grasshopper and Instances

Hi all, it's been a while!

I noticed recently that I can't use block instances linked to a rhino file with Grasshopper. Whenever I try to "set one Brep", the Brep container displays "null".

I realise it would be useless to do this once I bake the geometry, so what is the best strategy to reduce file size with Grasshopper when you have thousands of objects? Would something like block instancing for Rhino be possible in Grasshopper?

I am creating a definition with 500 to 1000 Breps managed with Grasshopper and it produces quite a "heavy" file, no more and no less than 340MB - and it's simple geometry!!

All the best,

Replies to This Discussion

Permalink Reply by peter fotiadis on April 4, 2016 at 9:42am

But ... you were ready (then) for the Dark Side.

What happened?

Get 600 (or 60000) things to play around.

May the Force (the dark option) be with you.

Attachments:

Instances_place_entry_level_V1.3dm, 2.8 MB
Instances_place_entry_level_V1.gh, 128 KB

Permalink Reply by Aristo Compasso on April 4, 2016 at 10:11am

Outstanding! But I really think some sort of geometry instancing option when baking should be present in GH.

Permalink Reply by peter fotiadis on April 4, 2016 at 10:18am

BTW: That is entry level meaning that the part MIA is the obvious: create instances (nested or not) from GH stuff, optionally inspect/manage them (who owns whom, depth, insertion point etc etc) and THEN place them a gazillion times around and THEN visually "identifying" them (say via text dots).