Enscape for rhino is amazing!

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Didn’t quite know where to put this. Just tried out the enscape for rhino. Its simply fantastic, and so useful for conceptual use. Its speed and flexibility is so much more evident when paired with rhino.

Although now I’ve got it in rhino, my mind inevitably leads to is there any plans in future to integrate with grasshopper3d? The parametric plugin for rhino.

Thank you!

Nick

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Hi Nick,

of course we evaluated what it would take to support Grasshopper, and we decided against it for the first Rhino version. This does not mean it will never be available, but right now we don’t have any plans to do so.

The two main reasons are:

  1. Grasshopper does not support materials (correct me if I’m wrong).
  2. The amount of work needed is basically the same as supporting a whole new CAD software.

Did you know: As soon as you bake the grasshopper content into the Rhino model, it is visible in Enscape.

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Hi Simon,

Your baking suggestion is actually the key… and a good get around so you don’t need to support much and you may wish to reconsider … Firstly Materials can be created and manipulated as they are supported in grasshopper… secondly materials (and potentially lights) can be baked just like geometry (if you know how). I believe this is all you would need to consider for how to update the rhino environment geometry (OnChange). I can point you in the right direction for an example if you’re interested?

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@julesbuh_1 Thank you for that piece of information. Do you have a complex typical grasshopper project you can share with us, by any chance? This would help us alot if we decide to implement full grasshopper support - or even change our priorization.

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Hi Simon, apologies for not getting back to you sooner. I’d be happy to direct you to some of the assistance I provided others on the grasshopper forum. I can also dig out the script that continuously bakes materials and objects from grasshopper to the rhino environment, this then gets picked up by escape no problem. http://www.grasshopper3d.com/video/grasshopper-baker

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And here… Where I’ve contributed to many threads… http://www.grasshopper3d.com/forum/topic/listForContributor?user=339p8mfdn9fy9

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and this one in particular which shows the bake material… http://www.grasshopper3d.com/forum/topics/fragment-a-process?overrideMobileRedirect=1 . I have since created my own VB component code which that bakes materials a little more efficiently (with enscape in mind) than the one in this example would.