Request: Iteration count for components

Dear David,

Would it be feasable to add an iteration counter to components in grasshopper? I suspect this will make the concept of structure and datatrees a lot easier to comprehend for new users.

At this moment I find myself explaining students that structure or trees in fact matter because it influences the way a component is executed and how many times it is executed.

It can make the comprehension of something like a polyline from branches of points a lot easier:

"Look, it gets executed now 10 times, because there are 10 branches, but it does not work, because each time we only have one point."

Thanks,

Arend

Replies to This Discussion

Permalink Reply by David Rutten on September 21, 2013 at 9:37am

Ah, good idea. That'll be easy to implement.

David Rutten

david@mcneel.com

Tirol, Austria

Permalink Reply by David Rutten on September 21, 2013 at 10:13am

And done...

(screenshots taken before I added a full stop to each line)

David Rutten

david@mcneel.com

Tirol, Austria

Permalink Reply by Daniel Piker on September 21, 2013 at 10:46am

Nice addition.

Is there any chance this could fit with reviving this suggestion?:

http://www.grasshopper3d.com/forum/topics/feature-suggestion-large-...

Permalink Reply by David Rutten on September 21, 2013 at 12:31pm

Does Escape still not work? It would be the ideal solution to this problem so I would like to make sure you can always escape out of a solution. The only real problem is if you start a Solid Boolean operation on 64500 breps, that is a single function call from GH's point of view so there's no way to bail out in the middle of it.

David Rutten

david@mcneel.com

Tirol, Austria

Permalink Reply by Arend on September 21, 2013 at 11:01am