Specific viewports for Geometry

Is there a way to specify a viewport to display certain geometry so that it showns only in that viewport and no in all the other ones? I'm trying to simulate some kind of user interface for a presentation and I would like to show diferent parts of the procces in each viewport as in the image (I moved some geometry away and used zoom in Rhino)

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Permalink Reply by David Rutten on February 28, 2013 at 3:33am

This is possible in Rhino, but not in Grasshopper.

If you're willing to draw the geometry yourself (for example using a VB/C# component) then this can be achieved, but not using native components.

David Rutten

david@mcneel.com

Poprad, Slovakia

Permalink Reply by David Rutten on February 28, 2013 at 4:21am

I just added a Viewport Filter to the Custom Preview component. It's not an input but rather a component setting (i.e. accessible via the component menu). It supports wild-card matching of viewport names and restricts drawing to only those viewports whose names match the filter:

David Rutten

david@mcneel.com

Poprad, Slovakia

Permalink Reply by Leonardo Nuevo Arenas on February 28, 2013 at 7:02am

That's great David, but, that filter does not appear in the release of GH, is there a way to download it?

Permalink Reply by David Rutten on February 28, 2013 at 7:20am

Well I only just wrote it two hours ago so you'll have to wait till the next release goes out.

David Rutten

david@mcneel.com

Poprad, Slovakia

Permalink Reply by Florian Frank on February 28, 2013 at 4:27am

Hi Leonardo,

If this is what you need... in GH you can:

Attachments:

displayInSpecificViewport.gh, 6 KB

Permalink Reply by Leonardo Nuevo Arenas on February 28, 2013 at 7:01am

Thank you so much Florian, that's exactly what I need. I tried it and this only works with Breps, is there any way to make it work with Curves?

Permalink Reply by Florian Frank on February 28, 2013 at 7:59am

It works with everything that Rhino can display...tell me what you need and i'll quickly modify this script.

Just Curves?

Cheers FF

Permalink Reply by Leonardo Nuevo Arenas on February 28, 2013 at 8:05am

Yeah, I need to display curves in some views and breps in other ones, just that

Permalink Reply by Florian Frank on February 28, 2013 at 3:59pm

I've made some changes so it should display every kind of object. If not please report...oh yes you can provide material now as the original one can...and you can set the thickness of the lines which i think is nice sometimes.

Save the .ghuser file in the user object folder. (You find this folder by clicking in GH on "File - Special Folders - User Objects Folder", then simply paste the file there.) So you can use it all the time ;-)

Bye FF

Attachments:

displayInSpecificViewport.gh, 44 KB
Custom Preview.ghuser, 8 KB

Permalink Reply by Leonardo Nuevo Arenas on March 1, 2013 at 7:44am

Florian.

It works perfectly, thank you so much.
the part of the thicknes is a really nice touch. I have a site, www.complexgeometry.com and facebook.com/complexgeometry is it ok for you if I mention you and this component in the site? I think it may be really useful for another designers

Leonardo

Permalink Reply by Florian Frank on March 1, 2013 at 8:01am

Hi Leonardo,

Your welcome. You can post it on your site, of course...but it will be useful only until the next release of gh i think...david has mentioned it before, that he will update the custom preview component.

Cheers FF

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