A nice explanation David, but don't let it deter you from trying out Grasshopper as a design tool in your kit.
I'm guessing that you (Pax) are the same engineer that's emailed me about linking Rhino/Grasshopper with structural analysis, or at least someone close in your office. Regardless, background about me is I'm a structural engineer in an office that's using Rhino extensively as part of our design and detailing process. But we're able to utilise the fact that I was fortunate/unfortunate (depending on your point of view) to have studied a double degree (as is popular in Australia) that combined computer science and Structural Engineering. Diving straight into the object oriented world of programming in dotNet isn't likely, even with the basic programming in fortran/c etc that is taught as part of structural engineering, but it should give you a basis for taking some small steps and creating basic script components in grasshopper. There is a very knowledgable and supportive community that use Rhino, personally I've learnt so much from the newsgroups etc. And I'm sure you'll find the same if you come to a brick wall whilst you're developing these things. If you can clearly state your problem, with as much progress as you've made, I'm sure that others reading will come to your aid (or suggest maybe that's too big a task until you're more experienced). Part of the problem might be if it's very project specific (and you're not comfortable with posting progress online), that you might have to create simple examples that demonstrate the problem, but to be honest that will probably help you and anyone trying to assist you. I'm certainly happy to try and help however I can, hope you give it a shot. Cheers, Jon On Oct 22, 11:39 am, David Rutten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For some reason Google Groups doesn't like my response, because it > will consistently refuse to post it. > I added a textfile with my thoughts on the matter > here:http://grasshopper3d.googlegroups.com/web/VBvsCSDiscussion.txt?gsc=-i... > > -- > David Rutten > Robert McNeel & Associates > > On Oct 21, 6:06 pm, Pax <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Dear all, > > > As an office of structural engineers, in Madrid, we might be looking > > into expanding our scripting knowledge. This would be entirely > > orientated towards expanding the usefulness of Rhino from early > > project development stages, using Grasshopper. > > > In order to maximise the potential of this most amazingly awesomely > > powerful tool, we would need to train up a few staff members in visual > > basic (and C#?). My question would be, what exactly should be studied, > > is visual basic the same no matter what it is applied to, or is there > > a more specific "sub-branch" of VB for Rhino/Grasshopper? > > > And if anyone has any information as to where such a course may be > > obtained from within Madrid, please share! David, do you have any > > friends in the Madrid area who would be interested in giving such a > > course? In-house could be accomodated also, probably, if you wanted to > > take a trip here, hint hint, nudge nudge... :P > > > Many thanks! > > Pax- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text -
