Grasshopper Scripting

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Permalink Reply by David Rutten on April 27, 2011 at 6:49am

Hi Mohamed,

 

I think it's confusing to speak of 'scripting' here. In RhinoScript, you use the "Rhino." prefix to indicate a certain function is defined in the RhinoScript plugin, not the VBScript platform.

 

In VB.NET, "Rhino" and "Grasshopper" are namespaces. In this case they are both top-level namespaces that coincide with individual assemblies (i.e. separate dll files). The "Rhino" namespace contains all of the classes and types and functions from the RhinoCommon SDK, the "Grasshopper" namespace contains all the classes and types and functions from the Grasshopper SDK.

 

So, yes, in a way 'Grasshopper has its own scripting syntax', but that is an incorrect way of stating it. In fact, in a very real sense, Grasshopper is the Grasshopper namespace.

 

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David Rutten

david@mcneel.com

Turku, Finland

Permalink Reply by Mohamed Naeim on April 27, 2011 at 7:07am

thanks David, 

 i have few questions about grasshopper namespace

 

is there manuals for it  

is it really useful to start using it rather than other syntaxes like rhino one, i mean, what is special about it? is it enough to stop using rhinoscript ? 

 

is it importable to Python for rhino ?

 

kind regards, 

Mohamed

Permalink Reply by David Rutten on April 28, 2011 at 3:19am

Hi Mohamed,

 

you can download the help for the Grasshopper SDK via the Grasshopper Help menu (Download SDK Help).

 

Grasshopper is not like Rhino, the question "is it really useful to start using it rather than other syntaxes like rhino one" does not make sense. The Grasshopper SDK allows you to write code that works with and inside Grasshopper. You cannot do this using only the Rhino SDK.

 

What are you trying to accomplish? Do you want to write custom components? If yes, then you'll absolutely need the Grasshopper SDK and probably also the Rhino SDK.

 

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David Rutten

david@mcneel.com

Turku, Finland