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Hello Everyone,

I just wanted to introduce myself as say hello to everyone. I have been practicing architecture the past 10 years and have used Rhino for the majority of that time. I am now learning the basics of grasshopper and wanted to inquire about the most effective way in learning this tool. I have put it off for some time due to exams and just the fear of "the unknown" that is grasshopper. I do have some questions which may be somewhat naive in nature, so please excuse me.

1) Do I need to know how to code to better learn grasshopper. Would learning the fundamentals in coding help?

2) Besides the learn tab above, are there any other sources/books that you guys think would really help beginners?

3) How often do people come up with definitions? Is this something new you do for each project or do you have one definition that you customize each time? Do most of you end up with huge definition libraries that you later apply to different project?

4) Can grasshopper be used for estimating/takeoff purposes? More "real world" applications.

My main objective here is to learn this as a hobby and use it to build furniture for myself (mainly out of wood/steel), but would love to learn it for everyday application, or even just to make cool forms. I am based in the LA area, so if you feel the need to PM to say hello, please feel free. Thanks for all your help and support.

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Permalink Reply by peter fotiadis on March 22, 2017 at 12:35pm

Well ... Architecture (and AEC in general) require BIM type of main apps the likes of AECOSim or Revit. Additionally a lot of vertical apps. Plus MCAD apps since these days buildings more and more resemble machines (and require custom Articles for specs, cost pre-estimation and the likes).

Putting yourself against that "forest" you should answer the question N1: you want to just use (the unsafe option) these or cross the Rubicon and collaborate in some way with the software vendors? (the safe option plus numerous benefits: knowing what's in the pipeline years ago, solving bugs in no time etc etc etc).

The question N2 is: do you get involved (or you want to) in "developing" all that the one way or the other? If yes using what "platform"? (so to speak).

The question N3 is: what are your estimations concerning the future in our trade? (count the tremendous acceleration of things as well plus the unavoidable AI factor (sooner or later)).

By answering these 3 ... you can easily answer the other questions of yours.

Bad news: future is past already.

Permalink Reply by Hyungsoo Kim on March 22, 2017 at 1:00pm