LunchBox – The Past, Present, and Future of Grasshopper’s Most Downloaded Plugin

We loved reading this story from Nate, the founder of Proving Ground, about the humble beginnings of what has become the most downloaded plugin for Rhino/Grasshopper.

What began in 2010 as a collection of tools to help Nate (in his words) "keep his head above water" has evolved into a hefty collection of tools, hence the name, Lunchbox.

Most recently, LunchBox has added:

• Massing. A collection of tools for developing basic building masses using area and floor level constraints. These were originally developed to support rapid masterplan studies.

• Shell Brep. This simple utility exposes a Rhinocommon method for developing solid Brep shells from a solid. This component has proven extremely useful for 3D printing.

• String Distance. Compare how ‘close’ two strings are. The distance value can be used to score a list of labels against a standard list. This is great for supporting the remediation of poorly labeled data sets.

Read (or listen) to the full story on the Proving Ground blog.