GRAPHISOFT Releases Grasshopper - ARCHICAD Live Connection

[Laszlo Nagy]

After 6 months of beta testing the free intelligent Grashopper-ARCHICAD bi-directional Live Connection plugin is now officially released. The press release:

http://www.graphisoft.com/info/news/press_releases/graphisoft-releases-grasshopper-archicad-live-con...

Get it for free at:

http://www.graphisoft.com/downloads/addons/interoperability/rhino.html#live-connection-plugin

[Aaron Bourgoin]

Also posted on this page, without any fanfare, is the Rhinoceros - GDL Converter and Observer.

This is a promising piece of work. Any reason why this seems to be a Windows only solution when Grasshopper isn't involved and Rhino for Mac is further enough along to include plug-in support?

Or did I miss something?

[Anonymous]

I would like to see some real practical building design examples. For instance can we use it to easily change the exterior materials and their configurations based upon a recipe? Can we use it to make parametric object parts, etc. How is this going to help the majority of Architects who don't typically do freeform organic shapes?

[Laszlo Nagy]

Aaron wrote:
Also posted on this page, without any fanfare, is the Rhinoceros - GDL Converter and Observer.

This is a promising piece of work. Any reason why this seems to be a Windows only solution when Grasshopper isn't involved and Rhino for Mac is further enough along to include plug-in support?

Or did I miss something?

I received information from GRAPHISOFT that a Mac version of the Grasshopper-ARCHICAD connection is in the works. However, they do not plan to create a Mac version of the Rhino-GDL Converter/Observer, since ARCHICAD 20 will be able to read Rhino files directly and convert them to GDL Objects both on Windows and Mac.

[TMA_80]

Is the Grasshopper connection available for ArchiCAD20?

[Laszlo Nagy]

Not yet, it is still being worked on. (It is a development project separate from the main ARCHICAD 20 development.)
When it becomes available you will find it on this page:

http://www.graphisoft.com/downloads/addons/interoperability/rhino.html#live-connection-plugin

[TMA_80]

OK , thank you Lazlo, I though it was integrated as is the rhino importer.