Grasshopper 0.5.0090 is available for download from:
http://download.rhino3d.com/download_rel.asp?rel=400
THOSE OF YOU WHO ARE STILL USING OLD VERSIONS THAT HAD TO BE INSTALLED
MANUALLY, PLEASE READ THE FOLLOWING CAREFULLY!
Before you can install Grasshopper {0.5.0090} you must first remove
all old grasshopper files manually.
Look in your Grasshopper plugin folder and delete all these files:
- everything ending with *.ehc
- everything ending with *.gha
- Grasshopper.dll
- Grasshopper.rhp
- CSharpOpenGL.dll
- GH_IO.dll
- GH_IO.xml
- GH_IO_Viewer.exe
and all these folders:
- \Components\ (folder containing ehc or gha component files)
- \Icons\ (folder containing grasshopper file format icons)
- \Cursors\ (folder containing both 8bit and 32bit grasshopper
cursors)
If you cannot find all of these files, don't panic, not all versions
of Grasshopper included all of these.
Once you feel certain you've deleted all these files, run Rhino and
make sure the Grasshopper command is not longer available.
YOU CAN NOW STOP READING CAREFULLY.
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New features:
- Reworked interface icons and display modes
- Reworked Graph Mapper interface (old graphs won't load, the
discrepancy was too big, sorry)
- Improved Graph Editor dialog
- New Gradient Control
- Automatic data casting from Colour to Points and Vectors added
- New mutable code lines in VB and C# script components which allows
for custom type definitions and custom procedures.
- New curve components (Shatter, Trim with BRep, Split with BRep, Trim
with Region)
- New Surface components (Rail Revolve, Copy UV Trim, Retrim)
- New Mesh components (BRep mesher, Surface mesher, Mesh settings)
- New Graph types (Parabola, Sine summation, Sinc, Square Root)
- Merge Definition menu item has been reincarnated
- 3D text tags are now available from the panels
- Invariant culture is now used everywhere (I think) so all floating
point numbers should be entered using the point decimal symbol
Bug fixes:
- The installer would not run on non-administrator accounts, this is
now fixed.
- Gaussian Graph was using an incomplete formula which did not
maintain probability surface area.
- Graph object grips did not work well when a non-unit domain was set
for the graph
- Several transform components failed to correctly duplicate data
causing downstream components to reload referenced geometry.
- Several Fonts could not be loaded on some systems, this is partly
fixed.
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Enjoy,
David
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David Rutten
Robert McNeel & Associates
