[Wish] Grasshopper workshop mode.

I've found that teaching GH in a workshop with your laptop is a mess using digital projector(now with Win7 window management is a little bit easier): sometimes is really complicated to coordinate the position and size of both, Rhino and Grasshopper window. At home there is no problem, I always use an external monitor attached.

I've been thinking in a possible solution to this problem and perhaps if GH could be converted into a "dockable" tab, everything would be easier. I know that this is not an easy task to code and implement but sometimes to show the correct perspective + grasshopper definition region is complicate and not very comfortable for students and trainer.

Best regards.

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Permalink Reply by Ángel Linares on November 24, 2012 at 11:41am

One solution found:

Create a new viewport. Make it a floating viewport. Put it on one side and GH into the other :D

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Permalink Reply by David Rutten on November 27, 2012 at 3:49am

There's basically three approaches to this I can think of:

Manage both the Rhino and Grasshopper windows (position, size etc.)
Make Grasshopper part of the Rhino UI (like you suggested with docking panels)
Make Rhino viewports part of the Grasshopper UI.

[2] and [3] are both interesting options. Now that we're Rhino5 only I can start bugging Steve about stuff like this, make it easier to create viewports in .NET forms and stuff like that.

David Rutten

david@mcneel.com

Poprad, Slovakia

Permalink Reply by Ángel Linares on November 28, 2012 at 1:14am

Hi David,

Both solutions ([2] and [3]) looks great for me :) I'm very happy to know that with the new Rhino release everything will be easier to Mcneel coders ;) Very excited to see new tools and stuff.

Thanks for your response.

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