New to Grasshopper

So I am new to both Grasshopper and rhino- Currently I primarily use Solidworks for all of my 3D CAD drawings however our company has invested in the Rhino program to use the Mpanel feature for some of our projects we manufacture.

My question to all of you is can a person create a template so to say with Grasshopper that can be used in all drawings if desired. Basically I want to take digitized drawings and then use the grasshopper program to clean up the drawings so that the patterns I digitize are clean and can be used to cut fabrics.

As I indicated I am new to all of this so my question may be a silly question to ask.

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Permalink Reply by Daniel González Abalde on April 29, 2014 at 3:40pm

Grasshopper does not have native components for image editing. But you can try with Firefly plugin.

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

Permalink Reply by Angela Gaffke on April 30, 2014 at 6:50am

would this be a component that I would be able to create templates for Rhino so that when I import a DXF file into Rhino that has been digitized it would allow me a quicker method of cleaning up the drawings? When I refer to cleaning the drawings basically I want to connect points that may not be connected when digitizing, or I want to select a set of points that are supposed to be a nice curve and change it so that it is a smooth curve.

I know all of this can be done in Rhino itself but I just feel that their has to be a faster way to clean up these basic drawings.

Permalink Reply by Angela Gaffke on April 30, 2014 at 6:54am

Here is a sample drawing that has been digitized but as you can see not all the end points are connected and the line segments should consist of a nice curve. This would be a sample of something that I would like to build a set of commands to clean up or edit the drawing and basically create a template that can be used on Similar drawings

Attachments:

1.dxf, 9 KB

Permalink Reply by Danny Boyes on April 30, 2014 at 7:15am

Is this the sort of thing you want to do?

Attachments:

cleanup.gh, 27 KB

Permalink Reply by Angela Gaffke on April 30, 2014 at 11:13am

Possibly. The finish 3d drawing should look like the attached once all the clean up has been completed.

What you created do you think it would work for other drawings that are similar to create basically a template?

Attachments:

Test sample.3dm, 21 KB

Permalink Reply by Michael Makris on April 30, 2014 at 1:45pm

Welcome to Grasshopper :)

I think I understand what you are hoping to do. I think the first thing that comes to mind is that Grasshopper can't read your mind. So yes of course you could create a program that attempts these things on the small scale.. however, given a project drawing with hundreds or thousands of points, lines, and areas, Grasshopper would have no way of knowing which points and lines to clean up without you manually specifying them. At that point, you would be better served just doing it manually in Rhino.

Grasshopper isn't just for geometry creation, but using it as a post-processing or editing tool on a point-by-point bases probably will take forever.

Permalink Reply by Angela Gaffke on May 1, 2014 at 6:20am

Thank you for your insight, That was kind of my thought that Grasshopper would be used in a sense for each individual drawing once the points have been specified. I really do like the tools involved in grasshopper so I will continue experimenting with this and who knows what I will discover.

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