DoodleBug: how to use it ? Rendering lines with gh and baking shadows ?

Hello world !

I discovered today the doodle bug plugin and it looks awesome but i really don't understand how to use it...

I just want to make a "make2d" of a brep (like the rhino command) in grasshopper and get the lines directly in illustrator (is it possible ?).

Also is there a way to make a "make2d" in grasshopper or is there an available plugin that does it ?

Can we create shadows in grasshopper and is it possible to bake them ?

Thanks in advance for your help.

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Permalink Reply by Nenov Ivo on October 26, 2016 at 5:15am

I understand I maybe need the horster tools for the camera control for the shadows but I can't downloaded right now, food4rhino is under maintenance or something...

Also can someone explain how you get direct data stream data form rhino gh to illustrator with doodle bug please ?

Permalink Reply by Nenov Ivo on October 26, 2016 at 11:10am

Permalink Reply by Nenov Ivo on October 28, 2016 at 5:44am

Any advises ?

Permalink Reply by Tim Halvorson on October 29, 2016 at 11:04pm

Hey what's up Nenov. I can tell from this brief video that you are looking at Rhino on the right connected up with a very simple Human UI control panel in the middle feeding into Illustrator on the left. Grasshopper must be running under the hood off screen. I assume that is intended to be an engine for demo purposes. At the moment I just reached out on the Doodlebug page to resolve a bug causes issues in the Open Illustrator component in Doodlebug that should open up the connection between Rhino / Illustrator allowing for all the tools available to be leveraged. Hope that helps a bit!

Permalink Reply by Andrew Heumann on November 2, 2016 at 8:54am

Hi Nenov - I don't have this original definition but the attached does something similar. You can see that it's mostly a "trick" - I am actually manually calculating the "make 2d" by rotating the raw geometry into a view parallel to the XY plane before sending it, and sorting the faces by their Z position (relative to that view plane) in order to create the effect of occlusion (illustrator actually has the backfaces even though you can't see them)

Hope this helps a bit.

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