Transplant multiple curves at once - potential for a new UI Feature?

When working in on a definition within the gh canvas I sometimes have the need to move all of the connections coming into a single component's node and move it to another component's node. As far as I know the normal process would be to disconnect all wires and then reconnect them invididually but when in the thick of things figuring out a definition these wires are often leading to many different compoents located all over the canvas.

So I thought I'd propose a possible solution, which I have called Transplant.

I imagine this could be found as an additional item within the menu whenever you have right clicked on a component's connection node. After clicking transplant in the menu, all of the wires connected to this node would become attached the mouse cursor until a new node had been chosen to be transplanted to.

Anyways, Id be curious to know what others think of this feature and if it is something that would help out during definition creation.

Thx.

Tyler

Replies to This Discussion

Permalink Reply by Mateusz Zwierzycki on May 9, 2012 at 5:18pm

Great idea, I would rather see it as shift-crtl-alt+left-right click (choose correct one)...

Permalink Reply by CarloMaria Ciampoli on May 9, 2012 at 9:27pm

Try Shift+Ctrl+LMB

Cheers

Permalink Reply by Mateusz Zwierzycki on May 10, 2012 at 6:53am

I have to get more familiar with preferences...

Permalink Reply by Tyler Selby on May 11, 2012 at 9:40am

Well that is great to know. May I ask how you knew this was a key combo option? I've been using GH for 2+ years and have never run across a whole list of features such as this.

Permalink Reply by Mateusz Zwierzycki on May 11, 2012 at 9:53am

see window->preferences(or ctrl+shift+p)->interface -there are all shortcuts but i cant find this combination (Shift+Ctrl+LMB)

Permalink Reply by Michael Pryor on May 11, 2012 at 10:10am

don't feel bad, I knew about rewire, but didn't know about ctr+g until a few months ago :)

Permalink Reply by greg bethel on May 11, 2012 at 9:57am

The version history of Grasshopper is actually worth reading! :) Rewiring added here - David just sneaks these gems in: http://www.grasshopper3d.com/forum/topics/grasshopper-080002-available

Help --> Version History

Permalink Reply by Ralph Zoontjens on October 24, 2014 at 3:54am

Shift + Ctrl + LMB works, or just alt-click the component to copy it while retaining the connections.

I do think more improvements can be made in the interface regarding 'wire handling'.

One of them is to make it easier to connect the output of multiple components to an input of another component. I often have to spend minutes just clicking to connect all the nodes, especially when working with patterns consisting of numerous individual elements. If there was a way to select all the outputs I want to connect at once and then drag them all at once to the desired input, that would be great. Or is there already a way to do it?

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