Karamba and Node-in-Code

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Permalink Reply by djordje on May 19, 2015 at 7:43am

Hi Gianpaolo,

It's definitely better to wait for Clemens to answer this question, but until then, you can't access those components through node-in-code functions. You could probably access it by importing karamba's assembly. Check the Karamba Hacker's Guide.

Permalink Reply by Gianpaolo Savio on May 19, 2015 at 8:32am

Thanks,

by Nonde-in-Code you can use all the grasshopper and related Add-on in GHpython or RhinoPython. For example you can analyze a model without "import karamba", "import feb" etc., using this simple code:

import ghpythonlib.components as gc

gc.karamba.AnalyzeThIkaramba(model)

Thanks again,

Gianpaolo

Permalink Reply by djordje on May 19, 2015 at 8:48am

Hi Gianpaolo,

The fact that a certain grasshopper component can be called by node-in-code function, does not mean you can use it. An example for grasshopper native components are: "Text tag", "Custom preview", "Vector display" function.

An example for karamba components are those that can be used but with limited functionality. You can call the "Support" function but you can not define the support conditions. You can call the "Loads" function but you can not define the type of the load. And so on, like you have already noticed by yourself.
So no, there is no way to access these functionalities through node-in-code. You might be able to access them through referenced .gha file.
Please check the upper Hacker's guide I attached. It has a nice examples for a couple of languages, python being one of them.

Regards,
djordje

Permalink Reply by Gianpaolo Savio on May 19, 2015 at 9:09am

Thanks djordje,
I know the Hacker's guide, and I tried to access to Karamba directly through referenced .gha file. In this way I found few trouble (e.g. utilization not updated, difference in the utilization computation using gh and python, input model seems modified), so I was looking for an alternative.

Best,

g