Way to delete input geometry after baking a defintion?

I have some defintions that change the structure of existing curves in a scene. I would like for them to get deleted after the definition has been baked and the original geometry replaced with the baked ones.

Is this possible?

thanks,

ryan

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Permalink Reply by David Rutten on July 19, 2011 at 8:47am

You can replace Rhino geometry with a VB/C# script easily enough. I think replacing is better than adding new objects and deleting the old ones as it maintains the attributes (layer, colour, linetype, arrowheads, names, groups etc. etc.) and also the object ID.

The problem is, when you replace the geometry Grasshopper will think that it's supposed to react to that. So you end up in an infinite loop of (import curves, modify curves, replace curves, import curves again since they just changed, modify curves, replace curves, import curves again....)

The same is true if you delete the original curves, it will cause Grasshopper to run the solution again.

It's possible to solve this problem but it will require customized objects that have unique behaviour. I.e., you cannot shoehorn this into a regular Component.

David Rutten

david@mcneel.com

Poprad, Slovakia

Permalink Reply by kleerkoat on July 19, 2011 at 12:52pm

Hey David,

I kind of thought that this might be a pandora's box.

When you say:

"It's possible to solve this problem but it will require customized objects that have unique behaviour. I.e., you cannot shoehorn this into a regular Component."

Permalink Reply by kleerkoat on July 19, 2011 at 5:18pm

actually maybe a paradox would be better?

Permalink Reply by David Rutten on July 20, 2011 at 2:54am

A Farnsworth Parabox?

David Rutten

david@mcneel.com

Poprad, Slovakia

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