Design with Rhinoscript 2006

Exploring forms with Rhinoscript Pablo C. Herrera

IAP, MIT. Jan 23, 2006 Computational Design Solutions - Part I Rhinoceros Visual Basics Instructors: Kenfield Griffith, John Snavely

Goals •Is Is it possible to explore ideas and new designs using scripts? Or scripting is only for programmers •Rhino Rhino is not a parametric software. But is it possible to make our non Euclidean form parametric through scripting?

•Is Is it possible make a sequence of script with all the information needed to print the model?

Point Line

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Surface

Point 'Create array of points crvOnePt1 = Array(0.0, 0.0, 10.0) crvOnePt2 = Array(4.0, 0.0, 10.0) crvOnePt3 = Array(8.0, 0.0, 10.0) crvOnePt4 = Array(12.0, 0.0, 10.0)

Lines crvOne = Rhino.AddInterpCurve (Array(crvOnePt1, crvOnePt2, crvOnePt3, crvOnePt4))

Surface curveArray = Array(crvOne, crvTwo, crvThree, crvFour) srfArray(0) = Rhino.AddEdgeSrf (curveArray)

Solid For i = 0 To UBound(srfArray) Rhino.SelectObject(srfArray(i)) Rhino.UnSelectObject(srfArray(i)) If i = 0 Then newPoint(0) = crvFiveEndPoint(0) newPoint(1) = crvFiveEndPoint(1) newPoint(2) = crvFiveEndPoint(2)-1 path = Rhino.AddLine (crvFiveEndPoint,newPoint) Rhino.ExtrudeSurface srfArray(i),path Rhino.DeleteObject (path)

Sketch using script

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•Is Is possible explore ideas and new designs using scripting or only is for programmers?

‌Yes, it is for all

•Is Is it possible to explore ideas and new designs using scripts? Or scripting is only for programmers •Rhino Rhino is not a parametric software. But is it possible to make our non Euclidean form parametric through scripting?

•Is Is it possible make a sequence of script with all the information needed to print the model?

The script

You have the control of each element in a line of code all the time

Digital Model

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Script 1 Kb

35 Kb 5 Kb 572 Kb

12 Kb 1132 Kb

Your file is very small

•Is Is it possible to explore ideas and new designs using scripts? Or scripting is only for programmers •Rhino Rhino is not a parametric software. But is it possible to make our non Euclidean form parametric through scripting?

•Is Is it possible make a sequence of script with all the information needed to print the model?

Yes, it is.