Grasshopper 0.6.0043 available for download

Hi All,

as I'm leaving tomorrow morning for SmartGeometry, this is the last chance for about 2 weeks to upload a new version. I don't think we're quite ready to release a new version, but I don't want to wait even longer.

The usual warnings:

1. DO NOT overwrite old files. Makes copies of old files first. Files written with the new version will not be readable by older versions.

2. DO NOT use this version on critical projects. If something is seriously wrong there won't be time to fix it until mid-december.

Download EXE installer

Download ZIP Installer

A brief overview of changes (not complete):
- Settings are no longer stored in the registry, but instead in xml files in a special folder. This makes it easier to delete them (in case you want to revert to factory defaults), copy them, edit them, share them etc. etc. The folder which contains the settings files can be opened via the [File->Open Settings] menu. Note that many settings files are written when grasshopper closes.

- Toolbar panels have been shrunk. Not all components are now visible on the panels, you have to open up the dropdown to see them all. Not sure yet if this is a good way to go...

- Buttons on toolbar panels are now more logically grouped together.

- New Save on Exit dialog for unsaved files.

- Autosave has been added. By default autosave kicks in just prior to a number of predefined 'risky' operations. You can alter the autosave behaviour via the [File->AutoSave] menu.

- Objects can now be fully disabled. There are new buttons on the Canvas toolbar for this as well as new menu items everywhere. Disabled objects will not collect data and they will not compute solutions. Usually Disabled objects are drawn in dark grey.

- New colour scheme for the GUI. If you're seriously unhappy with the new scheme and you don't mind messing around with xml, feel free to edit the grasshopper_colours.xml file in the Settings folder.

- Gradient object now has custom presets and a custom default. New options available in the Gradient Object Menu.

- Path Mapper object has been replaced. If you're using the old one it will still load correctly, but you'll no longer be able to create a new instance of the old version.

- Remote Control Panel is being reworked. This version contains a semi-functioning one, but I recommend you don't use it at all yet.

- Bunch of new components.

- Bunch of bug-fixes (unfortunately not all reported bugs have been fixed yet)

I probably won't be able to read the forum or my email for a while, so if you're running into serious problems, please revert to the 0.6.0019 build.

--
David Rutten
david@mcneel.com
Robert McNeel & Associates
Poprad, Slovakia

Replies to This Discussion

Permalink Reply by Adel Zakout on November 30, 2009 at 10:05am

Thanks for this, looks really good, some really useful tools have been added.

One issue I'm having though - any points i attempt to input to the Convex Hull component give me an "index out of range" error....

Best,

Adel

Permalink Reply by Garcia del Castillo on November 30, 2009 at 11:47am

Path Mapper just rocks! Thanks a lot.

Permalink Reply by to] on December 9, 2009 at 4:39pm

hi david

report a broken component:
convex hull (index is out of range)

Permalink Reply by Marc Syp on December 9, 2009 at 5:34pm

Is anyone else having issues with the GUI? It seems that readability has decreased at mid-level zooms. Also, when components have preview turned off, it seems like the nice diagonal shader isn't resolving properly. Components just look a little darker now, instead of having a nice hatch pattern like they used to... FYI, I'm running Windows 7 64-bit with Rhino 4 SP6 + Rhino 5. Have the same problems in both.

Thanks,
Marc

Permalink Reply by Danny Boyes on December 10, 2009 at 6:26am

Hi Marc,
The GUI has been re-written and the hatch pattern is no longer present. Preview on is light grey, preview off is dark grey and disabled is blurred and grey. See http://www.grasshopper3d.com/forum/topics/colour-palette-update for background

Permalink Reply by Marc Syp on December 10, 2009 at 9:16am

Thanks for the link, Danny... Hm. I don't mind the new color scheme, but my color palette does not appear the way it does in David's original post either. Has the new palette been implemented yet? Mine seems to be the worst of both worlds. No hatch pattern, and very low contrast, making it difficult to differentiate the states of components. See attached.

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Permalink Reply by Danny Boyes on December 10, 2009 at 9:41am

This is what I'm starring at (not as originally proposed but if you follow the thread you'll see there was lots of 2c going in the pot):

I should add that you can alter the colours using the XML document with the new version. File>Open Settings and edit the ARGB values in the list you want:
- #item name="hidden.std.fill" type_name="gh_drawing_color" type_code="36">
#ARGB>255;140;140;155#/ARGB>

Permalink Reply by Danny Boyes on December 10, 2009 at 10:00am

Here's one I tried using 255;90;90;105

Permalink Reply by Marc Syp on December 10, 2009 at 1:04pm

OK, great. I've modded my colors, thanks for the info.

Permalink Reply by Ángel Linares on December 25, 2009 at 6:35am

Hey David!, Happy Christmas! at first :)

Thaks for the news and work :)

I've detected a little bug in the Quick grahp tool. It's a little precission bug.

Best Regards.

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Permalink Reply by David Rutten on December 25, 2009 at 7:18am

Hi Angel,

why is this a bug? You're only sampling the Graph mapper at a finite interval, thus you won't get a very good approximation of the Sine wave. If I superimpose the two images, I get QuickGraph points which are exactly on top of the graph. If you increase the N input of the Range component, you'll get a better match.

Merry Christmas :)

--
David Rutten
david@mcneel.com
Poprad, Slovakia

Permalink Reply by GHX_Fr [nil_b] on June 30, 2010 at 2:50am

Hi David,
would it be possible for you to put a new link to download this build (this one doesn't work)
Because it is the only way to get Morphocode's Rabbit 0.2 working. ( it was built for this version)
thank you

nil