General Grasshopper Installation

I downloaded the software and can access it through my Rhino 5 but I can not add an add-ons for grasshopper. I have the latest Rhino and Grasshopper systems. One thing I did notice is that I do not have a grasshopper file in my plug-ins file located in Program Files (x64).

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Permalink Reply by David Rutten on February 21, 2015 at 6:43am

What does that mean? Add-on installation fails? Drag+drop doesn't work? Is there an error? If so, what does it say?

Permalink Reply by Ryan Bunnell on February 21, 2015 at 2:12pm

No error. I drag and drop an add-on and nothing happens. When I open up grasshopper I don't get the tab on the grasshopper ribbons.

Permalink Reply by David Rutten on February 21, 2015 at 2:17pm

Ok, which files are you dropping? Do the components appear when you double-click + search for them by name?

Permalink Reply by ng5 Alex on February 21, 2015 at 2:18pm

Even after restart of rhino grasshopper?

you can double check the correct location for the plugins if go through the grasshopper tab file/special folders/components folder. this will open the folder for the plugin files.

Usually you need to restart rhino and grasshopper after "installing" a plugin. Some plugins dont provide a dedicated tab, rather have their components scattered along the grasshopper tabs.

Hope that helps

cheers

alex

Permalink Reply by Ryan Bunnell on February 21, 2015 at 2:26pm

Even after restarting rhino grasshopper and rhino itself. I got it fixed but I had to put the add-on files outside of the location that is typically specified. I put them in User->(Username)-> App DATA-> Roaming-> Grasshopper-> Libraries.

Permalink Reply by ng5 Alex on February 21, 2015 at 2:30pm

But that is the location specified, so they are in the correct folder, so they work.

Permalink Reply by Ryan Bunnell on February 21, 2015 at 2:31pm

Oh. I was taught to out the files in Progam File (x86)-> Rhino 5->plug-ins-> Grasshopper-> components.

Permalink Reply by ng5 Alex on February 21, 2015 at 2:39pm

.gha files (green ones), along with dlls if there are any, of a plugin go to the above described folder. .ghuser files (yellow ones) go to Root:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\Grasshopper\UserObjects.

but through tab file/special folders/... you can not miss the correct path for each.

Dont know why you were taught to put the files in the rhino folder. That folder if i am not mistaken, is mostly for Rhino plugins.(rhp)

Permalink Reply by Ryan Bunnell on February 22, 2015 at 8:00am

Ok, thanks for the clarification.

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