Octopus basics help required

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Permalink Reply by Robert Vier on April 24, 2015 at 4:18am

There are some examples coming with octopus, also there is a link to zitzler's tutorial slides on the octopus examples page

http://www.grasshopper3d.com/group/octopus/page/octopus-examples

otherwise, google is a very good source

Permalink Reply by Blanca Dasi Espuig on April 24, 2015 at 10:29am

Hi Robert and Nita,

The HElixToolkitWPF.dll is in the Libraries foldeer for Grasshopper and both files are unblocked, but the same error comes up.

Thanks,

Blanca

Permalink Reply by Robert Vier on April 24, 2015 at 10:35am

Blanca, you are working with the latest release version from a couple of days ago, arent you?

Are you running the very last GH version?

1) By the same error, you mean the one you have posted? That helixtoolkitwpf.dll cannot be found?

2) Can you place the octopus component on the canvas yourself?

Permalink Reply by Blanca Dasi Espuig on April 25, 2015 at 5:24pm

Hi Robert,

yes i am using the latest version from a few days ago and i double checked that it was the version that should be compatible with my GH (also very last version).

Yes, by the same error I mean the one I posted before, I even tried in a new GH file.

Yes, I was able to place the octopus component in the canvas myself, and when I plugin inputs and outputs it doesn't give any error, it's just that i double click it and nothing happens.

Thanks! 

Permalink Reply by Robert Vier on April 26, 2015 at 6:03am

Hi Blanca,

i dont really know what the cause is now, this happens (as the error says) when octopus does not find the helixtoolkitwpf.dll.

when grasshopper is started, type GrasshopperDeveloperSettings in the rhino command and have a look at those paths:

what should ultimately help is adding an entry to window's path variable ..

it s a bit hard to tell what s going on without checking your machine directly

cheers

Permalink Reply by David Maimone on November 13, 2015 at 8:48am

Hi Blanca,

have you found a solution to your problem? I have the same problem.

Thanks in advance, David

Permalink Reply by Blanca Dasi Espuig on November 23, 2015 at 4:54am

Hi David,

Sadly, I was never able to make Octopus work. I would still be interested in looking into it though, let me know if you find something helpful!

Thanks and good luck:)

Blanca

Permalink Reply by Robert Vier on November 23, 2015 at 5:08am

Strange. I know sometimes there are troubles opening the Octopus Window. But in all cases so far it could be solved.

- Make sure the latest Octopus & GH Versions are running, and both the files of octopus are unblocked (octopus.gha and helixtoolkit.wpf.dl)

- New GH document

- place a number slider

- connect a number container and connect it

- place octopus and connect it to the two components

- double click octopus, if it does not open after at least a few seconds have a look at rhino's command window if there are any messages

best

Robert

Permalink Reply by erik rafael molina arellano on July 11, 2018 at 1:37pm

same error, if I find a solution, I´ll tell you both. 

Permalink Reply by erik rafael molina arellano on July 11, 2018 at 1:45pm

Guys, I fixed it: my problem was that I had previous copies of Octopus and Helixtoolkit, I searched for all the octopus files and deleted them, and copied new unlocked files. 

Permalink Reply by Kristian B on March 6, 2019 at 4:25am

Hi Robert,

I have the same issue now using Rhino 6. Is octopus working with Rhino 6 or do I need to do anything in particular?

- Kristian

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