Third Edition of the Grasshopper Primer | Foundations Released

We are very excited to be releasing the Third Edition of the Grasshopper Primer!

This primer, titled Foundations, introduces you to the fundamental concepts and essential skill-building workflows to effectively use Grasshopper. Foundations is the first volume in a forthcoming collection of Grasshopper primers. This first volume tracks through an introduction to the Grasshopper user interface, the anatomy of a Grasshopper definition, and three chapters dealing with parametric concepts and case study examples. An appendix closes out this volume, providing you with resources for continued exploration.

We hope that at the very least this primer will inspire you to begin exploring the many opportunities of programming with Grasshopper. We wish you the best of luck as you embark on this journey.

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Comment by Ralph Spencer Steenblik on May 1, 2017 at 7:18am: FYI Here is the pdf location:

https://aae280.files.wordpress.com/2014/10/mode-lab-grasshopper-pri...

Comment by Bathsheba Grossman on July 22, 2016 at 12:31am: The reason I want the PDF is for search. The web version is great, much appreciated, but I'm past the stage of reading through it and need to use it as a reference. But I can't because it has no search.

Comment by Bathsheba Grossman on July 22, 2016 at 12:28am: I would love to use this but the download page is broken: in Winfox it hangs forever after the signup.

Please fix, or provide a working link?

Thanks.

Comment by Odin NG on August 21, 2015 at 7:54am: waiting for spanish version LOL

Comment by Will Pearson on October 14, 2014 at 8:43am: This is a fantastic (and beautiful) resource. The community is indebted to you! Would you consider following Daniel Shiffman's lead [1] and making the Primer open source to crowdsource corrections (and potentially translations)?

[1]: https://github.com/shiffman/The-Nature-of-Code

Comment by GIL AKOS on October 10, 2014 at 5:48am: Hi all,

Thank you for the feedback! We are very happy that the Primer is a valuable resource for you. One technical note about the PDF error messages - We have found that this is the result of two scenarios: an incomplete download (try the "web" version that is a smaller file size to avoid timeouts) or an needed update to your Adobe Acrobat software. Hope this helps.

Comment by Pieter Segeren on October 10, 2014 at 5:00am: Hi Gil,
I had a "diagonal" look but I can say it looks super consistant, compact, and to the point. I like the colour scheme too. Hope it'll get read an awful lot!
Great job guys, but I sure hope I won't need it too much;)

Comment by Zuardin Akbar on October 8, 2014 at 3:21am: Hi Gil,thank you for the new download system;however, I still experienced error to open the pdf files after downloaded it. On the other hand, the example files has been successfully downloaded. Could you help me please.. Thank you

Comment by Siemen on October 8, 2014 at 1:07am: Great job!

One minor unimportant mistake on page 60: explanation for 'time' is switched with 'trig'