Grasshopper Export

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Permalink Reply by Jon Mirtschin on June 26, 2016 at 3:32pm

If you'd like to generate more attributes and data in Grasshopper than can be conveyed through dwg or dxf, then there is the geometry gym plugin (that I develop) to link grasshopper and robot.

http://geometrygym.blogspot.com/search/label/Autodesk%20Robot

It is available from http://www.geometrygym.com/downloads and is free for academic use.

If you want to use dwg or dxf, I'd suggest the Lunchbox plugin might help. http://www.food4rhino.com/project/lunchbox?ufh

Permalink Reply by Farjad Khan on June 28, 2016 at 1:06pm

Appreciate your reply Jon. I'll give that a go.

Thanks 

Permalink Reply by Farjad Khan on July 30, 2016 at 8:08am

Hi Jon,

Thanks again for your response. I've downloaded the 'geometry gym IFC' plugin for the grasshopper however I'm still not sure which components to use in order to link the model to ROBOT. Could you please demonstrate in the gh file attached. 

The model attached is a parametric model of foldable plate, however, what I'm trying to do is use the geometry of the model at different fold angle state and use it in ROBOT to analyse and design a static structure. For example, the foldable plate is deployed at angle of 30 degrees so I want to freeze the geometry at 30 degree fold angle and take this into ROBOT and then repeat procedure for 40, 50, 60 degrees. 

Another question which I have is that when we do link the grasshopper to ROBOT, how does ROBOT identify the scale of the model. How is the imported model measured in ROBOT e.g. mm, m, inches etc. 

Thanks 

Attachments:

• Folding Plate.gh, 22 KB

Permalink Reply by Joseph Oster on July 30, 2016 at 8:43am

You can bake the Grasshopper model, of course, then in Rhino, 'Save as' a .dxf or .dwg.