Wow, it's pretty impressive that someone experimenting with beta plugins for CAD software package has never come across a .rar file (has nothing to do with being dumb, though). It's used for data compression, it contains compressed files similar to a .zip file. You need some software to extract the compressed files. The most popular is Winrar (http://www.rarlab.com/) but there are free alternatives like 7-zip (http://www.7-zip.org/).
On Dec 21, 2:44 am, Dave <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm so sorry...for some reason, my Grasshopper isn't reading the > file...I download it, but it's a .rar file...I'm not familiar with > this type. Am I missing something? I apologize for coming off so > dumb here... > > On Dec 20, 2:18 pm, visose <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I don't think you can read excel yet, but I'm not sure. About bringing > > numeric data from an outside source, i did it using a text file in > > this example:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wK7xFA-5YZc > > Here's the definition:http://grasshopper3d.googlegroups.com/web/gh_audio.rar > > It reads a text file that contains a list of numbers representing the > > values of a sound wave and generates geometry with them. > > > On Dec 20, 7:12 pm, Dave <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > This is great...I have a question on this...is there any way to bring > > > data in from Excel in a similar fashion? I have tried bringing > > > numeric data from the outside using the text component, but have > > > trouble converting it such that GH recognizes it as a number. Any > > > help?
