designalyze also had a video explaining some of that (towards the end of the clip):
http://www.designalyze.com/2008/12/14/streaming-data-from-grasshopper-to-microsoft-excel/ LML On Dec 19, 6:39 am, rob <[email protected]> wrote: > Fantastic and fantastically straight forward! And the video is the > perfect way to demonstrate. GH has improved so much since its > inception. > > I also got a response on the rhino.plug-ins newsgroup that was > scripting based from Damien. He said the same thing about baking, > which I was beginning to realize. (http://news2.mcneel.com/scripts/ > dnewsweb.exe?cmd=article&group=rhino.plug-ins&item=29791&utag=) I'll > pass your response on to him in case y'all aren't cross pollinating > regularly. > > Thanks. > > On Dec 19, 9:00 am, visose <[email protected]> wrote: > > > It may seem weird to reply to a post by creating video, but i was just > > trying out this desktop recording software... plus my youtube account > > is so empty... > > > It's pretty straight forward:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1ay9gqKB60 > > Sorry for all the scrolling, next time I'll use alt-tab. > > > On Dec 19, 12:04 am, visose <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > 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
