Hi Visose, your comments about the Expression components is well taken. It would be preferable. It's pretty tricky to have variable inputs/outputs but I'll eventually replace the expression components with a single flexible one.
-- David Rutten Robert McNeel & Associates On Nov 5, 2:06 pm, visose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > No complaints ...yet, just some thoughts: > I think it would be nice to have the 'draw icons' on as default, but > if you manually change the name of a component, it will change to text > mode only on that component. > Since you incorporated a nice way of adding inputs to components as > seen in the scripting components, i thought maybe this was going to be > applied to the expression components, so they would be reduced to a > single more flexible component. Maybe you could also have multiple > outputs so you don't have to add more components if you are working > with the same variables. This could work by adding a line for every > output inside the same expression component: > r: x+y > r2: x=1 > > On Nov 4, 7:56 pm, David Rutten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > 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. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > --------------------------------- > > > 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. > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > --------------------------------------------- > > > Enjoy, > > David > > > -- > > David Rutten > > Robert McNeel & Associates
