Reduce Mesh Script

Hello to all

I am very inexperienced in scripting and I am having trouble creating a component in a VB button. I am having trouble setting up the variables for the inputs and outputs. I know this is a very simple thing but this is my first written script... I have the script working in Rhino and now just want to transfer it to Grasshopper.

The script is to reduce the mesh.

I would like the following inputs:

1. Mesh

2. Percent to reduce

3. Boolean Toggle

Then the output would be the mesh. I know this this is amateur stuff but I have to start somewhere... I am not sure if you can call these commands through Grasshopper. I would also be open to an easy way to do this through Grasshopper

Any help would be very thankful.

Cheers

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reduce mesh.rvb, 1 KB

Replies to This Discussion

Permalink Reply by taz on March 30, 2012 at 2:07pm

First off RhinoScript is not the same as VB.NET, C#, or Python (your scripting options for Grasshopper).

That's all I know for certain. Cheers!

Permalink Reply by Connor Nicholas on March 30, 2012 at 2:16pm

Ahh yes this is true.. thanks for clarifying, I just figured that out. Well perhaps we could think of a way in Grasshopper to accomplish this.

Permalink Reply by Andrew Heumann on March 30, 2012 at 3:33pm

Here's a way to ReduceMesh in Grasshopper - but because the ReduceMesh method is not exposed via the RhinoCommon SDK, the script bakes the mesh object, runs the command, gathers the reduced mesh, and deletes the object... kind of a nasty hack.

Permalink Reply by Andrew Heumann on March 30, 2012 at 3:33pm

here's the script

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