Baking object suggestion

I'm looking regulary at grasshopper to see where this plugin is going on, because I think that it has a lot of potentiel.

My principal interest is about the "bake" action which creates "definitive" rhino geometries according to the solution. By "definitive" I mean that geometries are creates and cannot be edited later with the same parameters available in the solution.

The following is what I have in mind and it's probably more in "parametric" way of thinking. I would like to create a solution, than bake the geometries as a special "grasshopper object" containing the solution within. This object could be later selected and we could see all its available parameters within the properties panel (maybe adding a new section named "grasshopper" within the dropdown menu). Also in the properties, it could have a button too open the grasshopper main dialog and load the specific solution embed in the special object. This special objet could be something like a "block" that we could copy or instanciate in the scene and could also be exploded to a "definitive" object (loosing all the embed solution)

Probably grasshopper is going in that direction for its final release (I wish). but still I open the discussion, in the case this was not considered.

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Permalink Reply by Shawn Fernandez on December 1, 2010 at 7:37am

I haven't played around with it but there is currently the ability to save and restore the state of the solution in an external file. You can find these options on the Solution menu.

You could also save each change in your GH definition as separate definition files. If you have corresponding input geometry, you would have to save those as separate files as well. This would allow you to recreate your solution, make modifications to it while retaining the original. With the current methodology you'd have to know which definition produces which set of baked geometry, but that could probably be handled by how you name your files and corresponding layers in Rhino. I know it's not a slick as your suggest, but it should get you to the same place.

Permalink Reply by Svetlin on December 1, 2010 at 7:47am

you should check those two plugins :

http://www.rhinoparametrics.com/index.php?language=en

http://drivingdimensions.com/

Permalink Reply by Martin Cote on December 1, 2010 at 8:49pm

Thanks Shawn and Svetlin,

I already use what you've mentioned to save solution and reuse it, but as you said it's not actually tightly integrated... and what I was suggesting is only to give some cues as a software developper to help improve this "young" plugin. This makes more senses as Grasshopper is developped by Rhino Team which is not the case for the two other plugins.

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