GH component / Python-Rhino script equivalent list?

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Permalink Reply by Anders Holden Deleuran on April 18, 2013 at 3:22am

Hi Stan,

A list of one-to-one "Python function <-> Grasshopper component" equivalents does not exist. That said, as far as I understand, most Grasshopper components now implement classes from the RhinoCommon SDK. This SDK is also exposed for use with Rhino.Python by simply importing Rhino. There is also the RhinoScriptSyntax library, which is essentially a list of Python functions which emulate RhinoScript functionality. Note that all these functions also implement RhinoCommon (they are a bit like easy-to-use wrappers around RhinoCommon). If you are just starting out I would recommend plowing through these resources over on the Rhino.Python forum.

Hope that helps,

/Anders

Permalink Reply by Anders Holden Deleuran on April 18, 2013 at 3:31am

Attached a very basic example of how to use RhinoCommon. I've noticed that this seems to trip most people up a bit in the beginning, so hopefully this will help :)

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• SimleRhinoCommonExample.gh, 2 KB

Permalink Reply by Stan Carroll on April 18, 2013 at 6:31am

Nice, Thank you Anders, that should get me going. Thanks for your help.

Stan

Permalink Reply by djordje on April 18, 2013 at 4:13pm

Very nice Anders.
Just one question:

The "random", is a name of the native Python module, and the name of the function within the "random" module?

random.random()

Permalink Reply by Anders Holden Deleuran on April 18, 2013 at 4:55pm

That's right. You can find the documentation for the Python random module here. The function I was using is just the most basic one. Have fun :)

Permalink Reply by djordje on April 18, 2013 at 4:57pm

Thank you once again.