Hiding wires

Is it possible to have an option to toggle "Hide All Wire Display" ?

Sometimes while arranging, naming or having an aerial view of the mess ;) it helps sometimes if the wires are invisible.

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Permalink Reply by David Rutten on March 24, 2014 at 3:12am

Probably later than you think, even if you think it might be later than you think.

GH2 is a ground up rewrite (pure C# this time, using new .NET 4.0 features, better inheritance and interface design, immutable structs and classes whenever possible, thread-safety when meaningful, disassociation of UI frameworks with kernel code etc. etc.)

David Rutten

david@mcneel.com

Permalink Reply by Miriam Dall'Igna on February 3, 2016 at 5:36am

Hi there David,

Would it be possible to at least hide the wires from the output of the components, not only from the input?

Let us know :)

Thanks,

Miriam

Permalink Reply by Yijiang Huang on November 29, 2016 at 8:03pm

I think it would be good for everyone who's struggled with "spaghetti-like" wires to this cool and useful link by TakahashiLim A + D.

This is a really easy-to-use tool, you just select target *components* and you choose the wire type.

Example definition with default wire displays

Happy wiring!

Best,

Yijiang

Permalink Reply by Yijiang Huang on November 29, 2016 at 10:33pm

I think there are still some tricky thing in the hiding wire code I posted above...

If we take a closer look at their code, we found:

which means the code does not work for these parameter type components:

I think the problem here is that we have to access the attributes WireDisplay for

GH_PersistentParam type data in different way.


If we try to get all the attributes name using dir() function
in python, we can see the attribute WireDisplay here:


So with a little modification on the code, we have a perfect group-wire hiding component here that can deal
with all types of data:

I enclose my gh example file here.

Happy wire cleaning!

Best,
Yijiang

Attachments:

HideWires_Modified.gh, 17 KB

Permalink Reply by Oliver Brossmann on January 5, 2017 at 4:17pm

Hey Yijiang Huang, Thanks you for this code! It's really helpful for a canvas I'm using to design custom footwear.... Lots and lots of wiring.

I was wondering if you might be able to solve a problem I ran into.

When I select the components in the canvas I have a bunch of Scribbles and Groups that I select at the same time. The WireCleaner doesn't work when a group or scribble is selected because they don't have the attribute WireDisplay.

Would there be a way to deselect GHScribbles & GHGroups or another way to fix this problem?

Any help would be much appreciated :)

Permalink Reply by Dimitar Pouchnikov on June 1, 2017 at 8:27am

Many thanks for this script!!!

Permalink Reply by Rodolfo Santos on August 16, 2018 at 11:16pm

First I wanted to say that hiding the wires in any definition is a feature that I would like to use for Educational purposes in order to present a simplified/cleaned version of a definitions before going into a more detailed explanations concerning the logic, the components and the relations between them.

I don't know if I missed something in this thread because I'm not able to figure out how to hide the wires with the posted example ?

Would it possible to know if this action is possible and if yes what is the procedure exactly ?

Thank you in advance for any response.

Regards,

R.Santos