a few short beginner questions

Hi!

as the title says, i am a beginner in need of some pointers:

1. first of all, is there any help page for grasshopper, online or offline, that has a search function? i couldn't find it...
or is there a place where i can look if i want to know how a certain object works (what each parameter means etc)?

2. my undo function is inactive in grasshopper. why is that?

3. is there a simpler way (with drag) to copy objects, other then ctrl+c / ctrl+v ?

4. how can i select objects generated through grasshopper in rhino (let's say i want to assign a Brazil material, or change it's layer..)?

hope you can help, thanks a lot!

Replies to This Discussion

Permalink Reply by Luis Fraguada on December 5, 2009 at 8:55am

1. In Rhino you can export the GH help...I don't remember the command, I think it is "GrasshopperExportHelp" or something similar. Not sure if there is search, but it will make you an HTML help.

2. Download the latest version of GH... it is 0.6.0043

3. No

4. Select the component that is generating the geometry you want to use in Rhino and then click on the fried egg button on the toolbar. Once you do this it looses associativity with the GH model.

Permalink Reply by Andrei Raducanu on December 5, 2009 at 9:58am

hey, thanks for the answer!

1. i did export (btw, for those reading, this command isn't available on the now stable version 0.5.0099). unfortunately it only says the things you can see when pointing over the variables/buttons in GH, so doesn't really help much.

2. i did install the latest version, still grayed out undo...

3. bummer :)

4. didn't know about the bake thing. Thanks!!

Permalink Reply by to] on December 5, 2009 at 10:29am

latest wip is 0.6.0043.... undo is working in this version

Permalink Reply by Andrei Raducanu on December 5, 2009 at 11:15am

yep...
i installed 0.6.0019 previously since that was the most recent one in the download section. i do have 0.6.0043 now, and undo IS working. thanks for the backup!

Permalink Reply by Vicente Soler on December 5, 2009 at 10:43am