My ideas for future features

Hi all !

(and especially to David Rutten)

After the response to this thread , i decided to make a thread with only my ideas. everyone is welcome to comment on them, but if you have your own ideas, please don't post them here, but make a separate thread in respect to Davids request.

I keep adding new ideas (from small useful tweaks to component proposals), but you have to check the latest pages.

1st idea: receivers for everyone! (the crowd goes wild)
i'm thinking, why not make each input hook be able to work as a receiver. it could be chosen from the right-click menu, and the waves graphic can appear (as in the receiver component) around that hook.

an advantage of this would be, that if you start with a bunch of components near the input components area, and then decide to make room in between this two sets for a new set, it is useful to get rid of the current connection lines that would make that area messy. it would be easier to just change the status of the hooks, rather then create a receiver for each input data needed, and redraw the connections.

2nd idea: preview selected only button
near the "preview mode" button, there could be an on-off "preview selected" button,that when is pushed, only displays the component(s) that is/are selected

it happens often that i am working in one part of the definition, that generates a certain geometry and i need to see how this geometry relates to other stuff in the scene, so i need other components visible, but i also need just to check if the resulted geo looks right, and it's hard to see with other objects overlapping in the display. i currently do this: bake the current component, and then close grasshopper, or chose no preview, then switch back to shaded preview. that button would make things easier.

thanks for the interest!
awaiting some feedback

Replies to This Discussion

Permalink Reply by Danny Boyes on June 5, 2013 at 8:06am

I use the Select All function on the right click of a group and then Ctrl+E which toggles the Disable/Enable property

Permalink Reply by Andrei Raducanu on June 5, 2013 at 9:12am

and wouldn't you want to just double-click it... :)

Permalink Reply by Andrei Raducanu on June 7, 2013 at 6:38am

33th idea: constant group name size

the name box / font size of the groups should remain at the same size when zooming out, this way one doesn't need to use the scribble component in order to mark different areas of the definition

At least when i work, i zoom out and have these neatly arranged groups, but i can't see their names, which is a pity.

Permalink Reply by Andrei Raducanu on January 22, 2015 at 7:46am

34th idea: 0,0,0, default A input value for 2 point vector

It often happens to me that i work on a shape using the origin as refeance but afterwards o want to move it (for example to populate a surface). It would be handy if the default value for the first point when defining a vector would be the origin Thanks!

Permalink Reply by Danny Boyes on January 22, 2015 at 9:03am

Vectors by their very nature don't have location. Therefore a Point anywhere is simply a Vector from the Origin to that Point.

So you can simply bypass the Vector2Pt component and use a point param with your chosen target location as the vector

Permalink Reply by Andrei Raducanu on January 22, 2015 at 10:35am

very true, thanks for pointing it out!

Permalink Reply by Andrei Raducanu on January 22, 2015 at 8:12am

35th idea: % mode for input hooks of extend curve

I often shorten or extend curves by a certain percent of their length and this would come in handy.