Hello all, Grasshopper 0.5.0050 is now available for download from: http://download.rhino3d.com/download_rel.asp?rel=400
This is quite a major new release (it's been 3 months after all) which undoubtedly has many fresh bugs. If you have important files saved with previous versions, you'd be wise to both back them up and keep the older version of Grasshopper somewhere on your disk (inactive of course) in case there are file parsing errors. Reasonably complete overview of additions and changes: - New file format (see wiki page for details: http://en.wiki.mcneel.com/default.aspx/McNeel/Grasshopper_FileFormat.html ) - New command: GrasshopperDeveloperSettings. Allows for special loading sequences of components, handy for debugging. Not useful for regular users. - Component popup search dialog. Double click on the canvas (on an empty spot) and start typing. No more navigating through tabs and panels if you know what you want. - Memory footprint of runtime solutions has been reduced significantly for certain kinds of networks because many unnecessary data duplications have been removed. - Vastly improved 'Manage Collection' editor. - Better help topics for some components. (Just started writing those today so I didn't get very far. The components in Logic (Lists & Sets) are finished) - C# and VB.NET scripting components; look in the Logic->Script panel. - BarGraph component for realtime visualization for large amounts of numbers. - Optional input parameters no longer throw warnings when they remain empty; fewer orange components on the screen. - Clipboard operations now use the windows clipboard so you can copy paste between Rhino sessions. - Clipboard operations now use Xml serialization instead of byte- arrays, so you can also copy/paste to and from text editors (provided they support unicode characters). - Arc curve base type. - Time primitive base type (not used anywhere yet). - Domain and Range settings for Graph mapper objects. (grip dragging is buggy when using non-default domains... this will be fixed soon). - 'Escape = Close' logic for all dialogs (unless I missed one). - Post-It notes have input and output grips. - Post-It notes can write their contents to text files. - Post-It notes now have custom Font settings. - Post-It notes have scroll bars for when the content size exceeds the screen size. - Better Point parameter picker logic. - Named views can be deleted through the named view menu (click on the red X). - Grid lines on the canvas fade out at low zoom factors; less clutter when zooming out. - Fibonacci sequence component. - Jitter component. - More Interval(2D) components. - Mass addition, Mean (average) and Truncate components for dealing with large amounts of numbers. - Rotate plane component. - Circle/Arc center and radius extractor. - Explode curve component. - Rectangle and Polygon components. - Plane surface component. - Flip surface component. - Curve region union component. - Mathematical intersection components (Ray-plane, Plane-curve, Ray- Surface, Curve-ray etc.). - More options for the Loft component (Loose, Tight, Rebuild etc.). - Curve Perpendicular frames component now provide true 'zero-twisting- frames'. - Number slider expressions now use slider name as variable. - Whatever else I forgot to mention. - Loads of bug fixes (we've at least tried to fix all bugs which have been reported through the crashdump system) I'd like at this point to thank everybody who has submitted Crash-dump reports over the past three months, never underestimate your role in the development process. Keep sending them in! Enjoy, David -- David Rutten Robert McNeel & Associates
