Grasshopper and Excel

Hey All,

Does anyone know how can I Run Grasshopper in Ecxel? It seems that it needs specific coding, I don't know anything about coding, could you please help me in this regard?

I really appreciate any help\

Bests,

Nick

Replies to This Discussion

Permalink Reply by sivam krish on June 26, 2011 at 6:51pm

Genoform has a way of generating designs based on Excel. It connects to grasshopper.

>More info on the genform group.

Permalink Reply by M NICK on June 26, 2011 at 9:11pm

Thanks Sivam ,

But first I want excel to Call Grasshopper, for this part can Geneform help me?

Permalink Reply by Damien Alomar on June 26, 2011 at 7:51pm

I'm not sure what you mean by run GH in Excel, but if you don't need anything more than read/write access and you've never coded before, I'd recommend taking a look at gHowl.

http://www.grasshopper3d.com/group/ghowl

Permalink Reply by M NICK on June 26, 2011 at 9:10pm

Thanks Damien,

But at first I want Excel to Call Grasshopper then Run the definition in Grasshopper, for the second part (importing from excel to grasshopper) I can use GHowl, but for the first part (calling the Grasshopper inside the Excel) I don't have any idea!!

Permalink Reply by Paul N Jeffries on June 30, 2011 at 6:11am

So you want Excel to control grasshopper? I don't think that's actually possible. You could certainly use vbscript to open Rhino and then run the grasshopper command, but as for loading a definition and refreshing it - so far as I know grasshopper doesn't expose any externally available commands for that.

On the other hand, I'm not sure why you'd want to do this. Why not just use excel as a data entry method and run everything else from within Grasshopper itself?

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