Grasshopper

algorithmic modeling for Rhino

speeding up things

Hi!

I have a suggestion to speed up things while working on a partial aspect of a larger definition:

When working on one of those, i use the "selective preview" quite a bit, to focus on that particular aspect.

The bummer is, though, that any change of a parameter will recalculate the whole definition (which takes around 40 seconds in my concrete situation... it contains a few solid difference components).

Of course i can switch on and off different groups/areas, which is also what i do, but it becomes quite a fuss disabling/ enabling things all the time.

So my suggestion: Would it be thinkable that grasshopper only calculates all the nodes UP TO the one that is currently selected and visible?

And only do a complete recomputation when one goes back to full preview.

What do you think?

Greetings, 

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Permalink Reply by David Rutten on May 18, 2012 at 6:18am

Hi Patrick,

it would be possible, maybe even not that difficult, but I'm going to post-pone thinking about this until after I release the next version.

0.9.0001 will feature a Data Dam object that can delay data. Perhaps this will already be enough to squeeze some more performance out of large files.

--

David Rutten

david@mcneel.com

Poprad, Slovakia

Permalink Reply by Marc Syp on May 25, 2012 at 11:58am

Judging by the version number of the next release, there must be quite a few upgrades on the list... looking forward to it.

Marc

Permalink Reply by Michael Pryor on May 25, 2012 at 12:05pm

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