Taz, David, I guess what we need as architects is to be able able to link excel and the grasshopper.
Taz, if you can guide me to the discussion you were mentionning (about storing the info in label to become rhino dot object), I would really appreciate. Thanks guys, for your help. jd On Oct 3, 4:54 am, David Rutten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Taz, > > when I said I 'already' did that, I meant it's done, but not yet > publicly available. > It will be a good solution to transferring simple data, but if the > written data requires conditional algorithms, it's going to be very > difficult or even impossible. > > Also, there is a big difference between that data, and Collection > manager data... maybe this isn't obvious to the general user, but data > that flows into a post-it, invariably comes from elsewhere, and is > thus the result of the actual solution. Data which is represented by > the Collection Manager is stored manually by the user, and is the > starting point of the solution. > > I'm not quite sure how to explain this, having a bunch of people > around me arguing in loud voices about undo-events and storage doesn't > help with my clarity of mind either... > Anyway, hopefully it will become clear when you can actually use these > new features. > > -- > David Rutten > Robert McNeel & Associates > > On Oct 3, 2:19 am, taz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > I hadn't yet tried to 'feed' data into a Post-it(TM). Good to know. > > > 'write to file' would be handy until the pull-down menu options are > > evolved. It would definitely save some time. > > > I would guess that most conventional users (like myself) will be > > transfering data to Excel or a text file via some delimited type file > > format. > > > I am also now just realizing that if you have x,y,z, point data you > > could copy and paste each coordinate into an x, y and z Post-it and > > create all the custom GH points you want. > > > Wouldn't this eliminate the need (for now) to import specific file > > types? You mentioned the Collection Manager of parameters will > > eventually be a means of organizing list data, but wouldn't the Post- > > it allow you to (theoretically) do this already? > > > taz > > > On Oct 2, 4:22 pm, David Rutten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > One of the things which I think would be reasonably useful is to add > > > output capability to Post-It panels. I already made them active (i.e. > > > they have inputs now and can display grasshopper data in realtime) and > > > adding a 'write to file' option wouldn't take very long. Do you think > > > this (in cmobination with the string formatting capabilities of the > > > Expression components) will be enough to handle the bulk of the export > > > needs? > > > > -- > > > David Rutten > > > Robert McNeel & Associates > > > > On Oct 2, 10:36 pm, taz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > jd, > > > > > If you are desperate you can store infomation in labels (which become > > > > Rhino text dot objects) and run a script to transfer the information > > > > to excel. > > > > > There was discussion on this I can try to find if you are interested. > > > > > taz > > > > > On Oct 2, 1:20 pm, JD <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > ok thanks > > > > > jd > > > > > > On Oct 2, 11:39 am, David Rutten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > Hi JD, > > > > > > > not at present. The next release will have Script components > > > > > > (VB.NET, > > > > > > C#.NET and IronPython) which can of course write/read data and also > > > > > > hook into other apps, but nothing exists yet that natively does > > > > > > this. > > > > > > It's pretty high on the wishlist, but I'm struggling to make it both > > > > > > generic enough and useful enough. > > > > > > > -- > > > > > > David Rutten > > > > > > Robert McNeel & Associates > > > > > > > On Oct 2, 5:41 pm, JD <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > Great program! > > > > > > > Can we extract data from grasshopper to excel for example? > > > > > > > If yes how can we do it? > > > > > > > thanks- Hide quoted text - > > > > > > > - Show quoted text -- Hide quoted text - > > > > > > - Show quoted text -- Hide quoted text - > > > > - Show quoted text -- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text -
