rhinoscript won't be useful here. you'd have to bake the curves then manually select them and run the script every time something is changed. when the scripting component was introduced in GH, someone made a real time connection with excel. Nevertheless, you don't need scripting to output data to excel from GH. If you right click in the text note component you'll see a stream to file option. this streams the note's data to a text file and gets updated realtime. Now open excel and link that text file as a data source. all you have to do now is press the update button in excel every time you want an update or set it to update every x seconds. you can disable the dialogue that asks to search for the text file every time you press update.
On Dec 18, 5:43 pm, rob <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi > > The goal (at this point) is to create a working excel spreadsheet of > floor plate areas from a Rhino model. This is where I'm at with it. > This is all about workflow, not really design. > > Using scripts from the Wiki, I have been able to create a script that > takes closed curves (meshes+srfs could work too), calculates their > area and extracts that info to excel. It's an alpha version, and i'm > no code monkey, but here it > is:http://groups.google.com/group/grasshopper3d/web/Excel%20-%20Curve%20... > > Additionally, from Designanalyze's spline tower tutorial I have been > able to calculate floor areas with automated floor to floor heights. > So far only outputting it into a sticky. Here's that .ghx: > http://groups.google.com/group/grasshopper3d/web/Floor%20areas.ghx?hl=en > Just plug-in any polysrf and it'll work. (Although I've had some > issues with trimmed srfs) > > There are two questions to move on the next step. 1. How to get the > script to read and extract the output from GH? 2. (mostly scripting) > How to update the same excel spreadsheet instead of creating a new one > each time? > > Any suggestions, solutions or locations of similar work is great. > > Thanks > rob
