Grasshopper 0.7.0001 available for download

Grasshopper 0.7.0001 (or rather, Grasshopper 1.0 WIP April-30 2010 as I've been instructed to call it) is now available for download from this location:

http://download.rhino3d.com/en/Grasshopper/1.0/wip/rc/download/

This version is a major change from 0.6.X and it is very likely that there will be numerous serious problems with 0.7 for at least a few weeks to come. I'm maintaining the 0.6.00059 download in case anyone needs to fall back onto a working version in a hurry.

Do not use this version on important work and do not overwrite files made with previous versions.

This new version is based on the RhinoCommon SDK which is still in its infancy and not anywhere near as tested and proven as the 'old' DotNET SDK. There's not that much new stuff in this release, it mainly represents a platform switch.

Here's a list of things that definitely won't work in 0.7:

It won't work in Rhino5
Sweep1
Sweep2
Pipe
Any custom components developed for 0.6.X

Here's a list of things that probably won't work:

Slider Animations
VB and C# scripts written in 0.6.X (I've tried to maintain legacy support, but I probably missed a few cases)

Here's a list of stuff we don't know won't work:

Yeah... wouldn't that be nice... I suppose this is where you come in.

Note that a lot of components have been shuffled in a desperate attempt to bring some order and simplicity to the over-crowded toolbars. Many of them are now only available via the drop-down panels. Others have been merged into new master components (Addition for example now works on Colours, Numbers, Integers, Vector, Points and Complex Numbers).

Have fun testing and don't claim I didn't warn you,

David

David Rutten

david@mcneel.com

Poprad, Slovakia

Replies to This Discussion

Permalink Reply by taz on April 29, 2010 at 5:48pm

Wowie-zowie!

What are the corner tick marks? They look similar to a bounding volume but not always.

Permalink Reply by taz on April 29, 2010 at 6:10pm

Preview settings drag-n-drop interface is really cool!

Permalink Reply by Ángel Linares on April 30, 2010 at 1:56am

Yeah, niceeee :) Catenary component it's cool too :)

Permalink Reply by David Rutten on April 29, 2010 at 6:15pm

It's a debugging tool. It helps me to see how big the Grasshopper document 'thinks' all it's geometry is. They'll probably disappear sometime soon when there are no more display issues left.

When you say "not always", do you mean they are sometimes too small or too large to be the bounding volume?

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David Rutten
david@mcneel.com
Poprad, Slovakia

Permalink Reply by taz on April 29, 2010 at 6:19pm

I was just drawing a sphere to test the preview settings. The bounding volume didn't change when the radius had a setting of 10 or less.

Permalink Reply by David Rutten on April 29, 2010 at 6:39pm

I see it. It's because of Planes. They have a fixed boundingbox with the radius of 10 units. I'll fix it so it uses the display size.

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David Rutten
david@mcneel.com
Poprad, Slovakia

Permalink Reply by taz on April 29, 2010 at 6:50pm

I'm seeing the asterisks for inputs that have an expression operating on them. Do the brackets on the [P] input for [Angle] mean anything?

Oh, the Function and Scriptable components also have inputs with brackets...

Permalink Reply by David Rutten on April 29, 2010 at 6:56pm

Square brackets mean the input is optional. I.e. the component will run even if you supply no data. I'm not entirely sure this was a good decision. I think it makes more sense to add a symbol for Flattening and to remove the Optional brackets.

Any suggestions for how to show Flatten=True?

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David Rutten
david@mcneel.com
Poprad, Slovakia

Permalink Reply by taz on April 29, 2010 at 7:01pm

Was it you who already suggested italics? Leaning text = something falling down = tree stump... But just italics might not be visually discernable enough.

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Still pondering brackets.

Permalink Reply by robert cervellione on April 29, 2010 at 7:04pm

what about different color text for optional, like blue

Permalink Reply by David Rutten on April 30, 2010 at 5:09am

Possible, hadn't considered that yet. All colours are skinnable as of 0.7 but blue could be the default...

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David Rutten
david@mcneel.com
Poprad, Slovakia

Permalink Reply by MARIO VERGARA on April 29, 2010 at 5:59pm