Grasshopper 0.8.0001 available for download

Dear Everybody,

the first version of the Grasshopper 0.8 series is available for download. The reason we rolled the minor version number is because clusters are available again (yay).

I'm off to work with the core McNeel team in Seattle for about 2 months tomorrow and I wanted to release this before I left. It's a bit rushed, clusters are definitely not as 'finished' as I'd like them to be, but there should be enough there for some good old customer feedback at least.

Just in case I horked something up, you can still download 0.7.0057 here.

Download 0.8.0001 from the usual location.

First a basic new features and bug list, then the warning section. If you don't read the warning section you forfeit any rights to complain about this new release.

● Added a new Cluster Object. This is very young code, expect big (quite possibly breaking) changes in the future.

● Added auto-panning to Drag Object and Draw Wire interactions.

● Added canvas curl UI for drag+drop options.

● Added default values to the Quad-Face and Tri-Face components.

● Added a Tree Split component for separating out branches.

● Drag+Drop with text content now creates a new Panel.

● Curve data can now convert from a Surface/Brep with a single closed edge loop.

● Added runtime message balloon feedback.

● VB and C# script components now update immediately when typehints are changed.

● VB and C# script components now update immediately when input parameter access is changed.

● MoveForward and MoveBackwards arrange options are now available.

● Added a Grasshopper Version field to the status bar.

● GraphMapper can now adjust intervals, points and vectors in addition to just numbers.

● Parameter disconnection menu items now highlight the connection in question on mouse-over.

○ The menu short-cuts for Find and Move Forward were both Ctrl+F. Find is now F3.

○ Any Undo operation would wreck the Redo stack, this no longer happens.

○ Fixed a bug with automatic tooltip resizing.

○ Fixed an erroneous "app" autocomplete member in the C# and VB script members.

○ Fixed a bug in the CurveCurve intersection SDK code that occured with overlaps.

○ Fixed a bug in the PointList display component with stale point data.

○ Fixed a nasty bug with stale document caches and undo/redo.

○ Custom Preview Meshes would always draw wires regardless of the Grasshopper view setting. This is fixed.

The Aforementioned Warning Section

This pertains mostly to clusters. At present there's no way yet to edit the contents of a cluster. You can make clusters from a selection by clicking on the toolbar cluster button (selected objects remain on the canvas, this will change), or by drag+dropping ghx files onto the canvas and selecting the Cluster Insert mode from behind the curl.

Clusters contents can be opened as new documents via the Cluster object menu, but this code is very icky still. You can edit cluster properties by double clicking on one.

It is entirely possible that clusters will change so much in the near future that old clusters might not read correctly from 0.8.0001 files. Do not use them yet on production work and always make backups.

That's it. Enjoy,

David

David Rutten

david@mcneel.com

Poprad, Slovakia

Replies to This Discussion

Permalink Reply by David Rutten on November 6, 2010 at 9:29pm

I realize you might not care about the details, but the Panel background default is stored inside the Grasshopper Skin file. Should the font name and size also be stored here or should it be non-transferable to another machine?

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David Rutten
david@mcneel.com
Seattle, WA

Permalink Reply by Mårten Nettelbladt on November 6, 2010 at 3:01pm

Minor wish: Pressing Ctrl+Tab once should change to the next open file (not just display open files and return to active file). Thanks! /Mårten

Permalink Reply by David Rutten on November 6, 2010 at 4:36pm

Done.

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David Rutten
david@mcneel.com
Seattle, WA

Permalink Reply by Mårten Nettelbladt on November 6, 2010 at 4:45pm

Thanks! :) That was fast.

Permalink Reply by David Rutten on November 6, 2010 at 6:58pm

Just had to add " + 1" to one line of code. If only all wishes were this easy :)

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David Rutten
david@mcneel.com
Seattle, WA

Permalink Reply by Thorsten Lang on November 9, 2010 at 5:15pm

Since the last update I can't get Grasshopper to load without errors, neither in RH4, SR8 nor in RH5. Neither Grasshopper 07.0057 nor 08.0001. some log-files below. I tried re-installing for both Grasshopper versions. Anybody got ideas on how to solve this??

Attachments:

GH_Load_Ex_07.0057.txt, 10 KB
GH_Load_Ex_errors.txt, 9 KB

Permalink Reply by David Rutten on November 9, 2010 at 7:10pm

Hi Thorsten,

these errors are caused by a 3rd party GHA file you're loading. If you remove this gha file the problems will go away.

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David Rutten
david@mcneel.com
Seattle, WA

Permalink Reply by Alpha222 on November 10, 2010 at 5:43am

Hi David, I just found that the Point param would not remember expressions (GH v0.8.001) ,just like in an earlyer version .

Permalink Reply by David Rutten on November 10, 2010 at 10:47am

Oops. I fixed it now.

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David Rutten
david@mcneel.com
Seattle, WA

Permalink Reply by Peter Mehrtens on November 10, 2010 at 5:57am

Hi,

it apears the bounding box component processes a brep's edges instead of the surface.
Also the List item is not at work today.

- Peter

(Rhino_5beta_2010-11-09, GH_0.8.0001, Win7 Pro)

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bbox issue.PNG, 537 KB
gh_0_8_0001+rh_5x64beta_2010-11-09 - broken BBox and ListItem.ghx, 301 KB
gh_0_8_0001+rh_5x64beta_2010-11-09 - broken BBox and ListItem in gh.3dm, 205 KB

Permalink Reply by Tom Wünschmann on November 10, 2010 at 7:33am

Hi David,

Thanks for the new release.Looks very interessting, nice to have clusters back and switching between files...
I just openend a file done in 0.6. latest stable version before 0.7. which worked quite well and run into an issue with offset directions flipping without reason.
Any Idea!?

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