Custom Components

Hi (David)

If one wants to try and fiddle with making custom components in Visual Studio C#, do you have any template projects for setting that up?!
Or any guidelines or references one can look into!?

It would be a great help to have some working C# project example. Like being able to look into the source of one of the simple components like line by two points?!

Do you think you could find time to supply somthing like that?!
cheers / Jes

Replies to This Discussion

Permalink Reply by Garcia del Castillo on March 30, 2010 at 2:47am

Dear Ben, I would really appreciatte if you forwarded me those advices on creating custom components.

I'll contact you in private, thank you very much.

Permalink Reply by Evert Amador on March 30, 2010 at 4:25am

HI,

I'm very interested on how to create custom components as well!

Cheers

Evert

Permalink Reply by David Rutten on March 30, 2010 at 5:39am

Just know that any components you write for Grasshopper 0.6 will no longer work in 0.7. And we'll probably break the SDK again, and again before we reach 1.0.

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David Rutten
david@mcneel.com
Poprad, Slovakia

Permalink Reply by Jes Tonsgaard on March 30, 2010 at 5:47am

I Think that many of us would just like to play with it. It doesn't matter too much if it breaks on the next version. It is just a Way of exploring....

Permalink Reply by David Rutten on March 30, 2010 at 6:54am

Ok, I'll release SDK documentation for Grasshopper along with (or more likely shortly after) 0.7.

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David Rutten
david@mcneel.com
Poprad, Slovakia

Permalink Reply by Monique on March 30, 2010 at 7:21am

would grasshopper 0.7 support explicit history/rhinoscript components?

Permalink Reply by David Rutten on March 30, 2010 at 8:10am

No. Grasshopper used to be Explicit History, so I'm not entirely certain what you're asking. But it will not be able to run RhinoScripts.

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David Rutten
david@mcneel.com
Poprad, Slovakia

Permalink Reply by Monique on April 3, 2010 at 8:57am

i found rhinoscripting to be a little more flexible in certain areas than grasshopper.
so i was curious if Grasshopper 0.7 would have input nodes to bridge that gap.

Permalink Reply by Damien Alomar on April 3, 2010 at 9:19am

No. Rhinoscript is a completely separate technology the relies on object being accessible in the Rhino document. GH keeps all of its geometry separate from the document until baked, so at that level they are fundamentally incompatable. Not to mention there's several other reasons why they can't work together as well.