Components Record in a separate file

Hello Everyone.

Is there the chance to export a file with a list of all the components used/present in a definition and how often they have been used? I would need it for educational purposes.

eg.

point:4 components

move: 6 components

y vector: 2 components

scale: 1 component

...

and so on

Thanks

Lorenzo

Replies to This Discussion

Permalink Reply by Armin Seltz on March 29, 2017 at 1:02pm

Well you can save a Grasshopper file as a .ghx file, which is just a plain text XML file. So then you just need a little script that goes through it and finds the names and so on. You can do this in Grasshopper as well. I'll give it a little try, as I would also like that.

What you are looking for is this line (just an example):

<item name="Name" type_name="gh_string" type_code="10">Divide Curve</item>

Permalink Reply by Lorenzo Franceschini on March 29, 2017 at 8:16pm

Thanks Armin, I will very much look for that. I'll also give it a try, but my look-for-strings-and-text-in-grasshopper skills are not that good.

thanks!

Permalink Reply by Anders Holden Deleuran on March 30, 2017 at 1:05am

Here's a simple method using GHPython that might help:

Attachments:

170330_CountComponentsOnGHCanvas_00.gh, 9 KB

Permalink Reply by Lorenzo Franceschini on March 30, 2017 at 1:43am

Fantastic!

thanks Andres.

ps. on the "group" component shows 90 instances where there are only a few. any idea?

Permalink Reply by Lorenzo Franceschini on March 30, 2017 at 1:50am

Could you please sort them according to how often they are used?

Permalink Reply by Anders Holden Deleuran on March 30, 2017 at 2:06am

There you go, I also added a check so that the GHPython component which does the counting as NOT included in the data.

Attachments:

170330_CountComponentsOnGHCanvas_01.gh, 14 KB

Permalink Reply by Lorenzo Franceschini on March 30, 2017 at 3:48am

Thank you!

Permalink Reply by Armin Seltz on March 30, 2017 at 10:00am

Wow, thanks, thats awesome. Can finally marble at my creation and back it up with solid numbers :D

I noticed it doesn't count anything in clusters. Is that possible, since large parts of my documents are organised in nested clusters.

Permalink Reply by Anders Holden Deleuran on March 31, 2017 at 1:11am

Haha, yes, indeed :)

I believe a cluster is technically a Grasshopper document within a Grasshopper document (turtles all the way down style potentially!). Meaning that you would have to jump into a cluster to count its components (either via code or manually by placing the script component in each cluster and outputting its data to the main document).

Permalink Reply by Armin Seltz on March 31, 2017 at 1:41am

Okay that makes sense. I seem to think of clusters differently and not as separate documents. But I guess thats because in the other visual programming tools I use all the time (vvvv) clusters are actually separate files, which is much nicer to work with on large projects, because versioning of large parts becomes much easier. Maybe one day I can place 1 GH file into another and be very happy. :)

Permalink Reply by Lorenzo Franceschini on March 31, 2017 at 3:09am

Neat. Could you share the component please? :)

Permalink Reply by Anders Holden Deleuran on March 31, 2017 at 3:52am

Pretty sure it's the same* component with a new icon slapped on top ;)

* 170330_CountComponentsOnGHCanvas_01.gh