Mantis

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Mantis{Grasshopper,Mathematica}
A new tool for grasshopper named Mantis which allows to interact with Mathematica directly, the first 3 tools are for generative Cellular Automata "CA"
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Unable to reproduce basic tutorial for Mantis

by Jesus Martinez Garcia

Nov 10, 2017

Hi,

I am trying to get a minimum working example in Mantis to actually work. Some of the posts in this forum have been useful, especially regarding copying dlls, but I am stuck at the last step.

This is the video I talk about:

https://vimeo.com/62255434
Everything works well up to minute 1:15 or so. The small window with the surface drawn appears for a second and then disappears. However, my surface is not rendered in Rhinoceros and what I get is the message "File c:\\contourplot.wrl not found"

I guess I need some wrl file to be imported but I have no idea where to download it from or what it is. I have tried creating an empty wrl file with Rhino and running the tutorial again to no avail.
Any ideas? I would appreciate any help. I am a mathematician and working with 3d models is not my daily bread and butter.
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    Zaghloul4d

    Hi,

    Try to create a new folder with any name on C:\\NewFolder\\contourplot.wrl

    Sometimes according to the system security settings, mantis can't create any file on the root of drive C:\\ 

    Let me know if it works

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    Nov 10, 2017

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      Amen Vahid

      Hi friend, just try to save as "wrl" format that file from Mathematica and try to give location in Mantis by that path where you have saved file.
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      Nov 10, 2017