Video Tutorial - My First Component

As a compliment to My First Component there is now a video tutorial available going through the steps of creating the component in My First Component



SSH Graph Plotter Component

Welcome to the third tutorial! This tutorial will demonstrate how to create a SSH connection to a remote calculation machine. The reason behind this, is that if you have very heavy computations, then you should be able to send them to a remote machine, such as a high-end desktop, server …



Graph Plotter Component

Welcome to the second tutorial! In this tutorial we will create a component that can plot a graph with Matplotlib and NumPy. If you heard of Python, you have probably heard of NumPy as well. NumPy is a library that can handle numerical operations in Python. NumPy is super fast …



My First Component Run

Run Component You have to save and restart Grasshopper before we start testing the our component. We do that to make sure that Rhino has loaded the newest versions of the scripts from %appdata%\McNeel\Rhinoceros\5.0\scripts\livestock3d When you open "1 - My First Component.gh" it should …



My First Template

Template Now when the Grasshopper component is written, it is time to write the template and the CPython script. Navigate to where you put the templates.py and open it. It can easily be found by in explorer typing: %appdata%\McNeel\Rhinoceros\5.0\scripts\livestock3d Python scripts can be …



Get Started

Grasshopper Install Livestock DOES NOT work without a valid installation of Grasshopper and Rhino. Anaconda Install We recommend to download and install Anaconda as your Python package manager get it here Follow the instructions on their page. Remember to check the box with: "Add Anaconda to my PATH environment variable …



My First Component

When you successfully installed the requirements for Livestock, then it is time to create your first component. Firstly you should open the Grasshopper script called "1 - My First Component.gh" The script should contain two panels and a component called "Python Executor". We start by double clicking on the Grasshopper …