New Grasshopper

Grasshopper 0.8.0004 is available to download.

Enhancements include:

• Improved Drag+Drop GUI for gh and ghx files.
• Added undo recording to Curve Point Component drags
• Added Ctrl+Enter and Shift+Enter overloads for setting persistent data via parameter menus.
• Slider Animations can now be aborted with Escape.
• Added non-functional Manage-List GUI to the Generic parameter.
• Added more smarts to the automatic cluster input/output lists.
• Added Ctrl+W shortcut to Close document menu item.
• Explode Tree component now uses base-zero numbering in the output.
• Arc3Pt and ArcSED components now output lines if the input is co-linear.
• Fixed sticky settings not being recorded when Rhino is shut down while Grasshopper is still running.
• Fixed a bug with Curve -> Interval auto-casting.
• Fixed tooltips showing for hidden widgets.
• Fixed a bug with Cluster output parameter sorting.
• Boxes would not bake if the axis intervals were reversed, this is fixed.

Check out one of the newest Grasshopper plug-ins:

• Karamba is an interactive structural analysis program. Here is a video on using Karamba with Galapogos to find an optimal solution.

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Grasshopper 0.8.0003 available

The third version of the Grasshopper 0.8 series is available for download. There are only a few enhancements and bug fixes in the 0.80003.

Details and download...

Also, check out the growing list of Grasshopper plugs-ins. Here are a few examples.

• Firefly - bridges Grasshopper, the Arduino micro-controller, the internet and beyond. Allowing near real-time data flow between the digital and physical worlds, and will read/write data to/from internet feeds, remote sensors and more.
• Kangaroo - Live physics
• Geco - Link to Ecotect
• WeaverBird - Catmull-Clark smoothing, Loop smoothing, Sierpinsky Triangles, Sierpinski carpet, Mesh Primitives, and Loop subdivisions
• Rabbit - L-Systems and Cellular Automata
• Galapagos - Evolutionary Solver (included with Grasshopper 0.8)
• SSI - Data exchange with IFC, GSA, Robot, SAP2000, Sofistik, Strand7, SpaceGass, SDNF, CIS/2, Digital Project, REVIT, Bentley and Tekla
• DIVA - sustainable design with Radieance, Daysim, and Evalglare
• GHowl - connect Grasshopper with Excel files, iPads, iPods, iPhones, Processing, Pachube, etc.

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DIVA-for-Rhino, new plugin

DIVA-for-Rhino is a sustainable design plugin to carry out a series of performance evaluations of individual buildings and urban landscapes including:

• Radiation Maps
• Visualizations
• Climate-Based Metrics
• Glare Analysis
• LEED IEQ Credit 8.1 Compliance
• More...

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