laszlonagy wrote:
This is not something that should be taken as a promise or fact, but I am hearing news that GS may be working on a Rhino-Grashopper-ARCHICAD bidirectional connection. We already have Rhino-ARCHICAD one-directional connection, that's is a done deal since this spring. If this is true this is something that may be coming in the future.
Which makes me think about the following:
On other fronts, one can read in the news that Rhino for Mac is coming, and sometime in the (hopefully not too distant) future Grasshopper for Rhino will also be released. So if all these things happen, then ARCHICAD will hopefully have a bidirectional Rhino-Grasshopper connection on both the Windows and Mac platforms in the foreseeable future.
To me this sounds like a pretty good thing because the guys developing Rhino and Grasshopper can focus on those applications, while Graphisoft can focus on ARCHICAD. Actually, this is not a bad solution, in my opinion. At this year's AIA one of the big announcements of Autodesk was the making of Dynamo a stand-alone product independent of Revit. Previously it was part of Revit. So Dynamo (a Grasshopper-like visual algorithmic modeling environment) will now be able to connect to any other application as well, and will not be tied to Revit. Which makes it the same order of solution as a Rhino-Grasshopper connection to ARCHICAD.
We will see...
Hi Laszlo,
Just few thoughts on this, as I am both Rhino and Grasshopper developer.
Essentially Grasshopper is not (only?) some play toy, which most people think it is, for generating "cool" looking forms for Gulf or Chinese building market.
It's initial power lies in the ability to automate tasks, without the need to know programming.
For example, being able to create .gsm objects without the need of knowing GDL language would be one fantastic use of visual programming for Archicad, as somebody already suggested.
But if you know VB.NET, C# or Python, it enables
writing plugins, easily and quickly which can be used for Grasshopper and Rhino too, as an automating tasks tool. So when it comes to Rhino, you can write your own Grasshopper component (those are these small blocks connected with wires) which can automatically do something to your Rhino drawing: for example: remove all lines from Rhino drawing of a certain length, or label your floor plans, even allow the grasshopper to
re-dimension the floor plan schedule based on some room ratio area criteria.
All these Rhino-Grasshopper-Archicad connections and vice versa, will only deal with "cool" looking forms. They will not address the issue of being able to automate Archicad.
Just my two cents.
