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07.08.2010 - LIFT architects has now moved! At least physically anyway. We're now located in Boston, MA and excited about all of the new potentials this city has to offer. We also have a lot of new things to unveil over the coming months (including a new website) so check back often. If your in the neighborhood, please do not hesitate to contact me: andy[at]liftarchitects[dot]com.

03.08.2010 - I will be presenting a lecture entitled "Parametric Optimization and Interactive Architecture" at Clemson University School of Architecture on March 8th, 2010. I would like to thank professor David Lee for the invitation.

05.13.2009 - I will be speaking at the 2009 ICFF Design Entrepreneurs Conference on Monday, May 18th. The conference will be held at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in New York City and is international gathering of entrepreneurs, thought leaders, and innovators from many fields and disciplines. I will be speaking about my runner up submission for the 2009 Metropolis Next Gen Competition titled, the Air Flow(er). To see more about this project, check out the May issue of Metropolis Magazine or come to the conference and get a first hand glimpse of the prototype that I've been developing over the last several months.

03.26.2009 - the FLUX Exhibition will open on March 30th at 8:30pm at the San Francisco campus of the California College of the Arts. The school is located at 1111 Eighth Street, San Francisco, CA. Stop by if your in the Bay area and see what I've been working on.

The Grasshopper Primer - Second Edition

Posted on March 25, 2009 by

AOP in Tutorials |

37 Comments

The second edition of the Grasshopper Primer is out and it wouldn't have been possible without the tremendous contribution from Rajaa Issa. Rajaa is a developer at Robert McNeel and Associates and is the author of several other Rhino plugins including ArchCut and the ever popular PanelingTools. This revision provides a much more comprehensive guide than the first edition, weighing in at almost 160 pages with over 70 new pages dedicated to creating your own customized scripting components.

This printing coincides with two events; the first being the new release of Grasshopper version 0.6.0007 which proves to be a giant upgrade to the already robust Grasshopper platform. Existing users will find subtle, and some not so subtle changes to how data is stored in the current version; making some previous definitions outdated or even unusable. It is the hope that this primer will help new and existing users navigate many of the changes to the software system. The second event that overlaps with this publication is the conference titled FLUX: Architecture in a Parametric Landscape that is being held at the California College of the Arts. The event explores contemporary architecture and design through its relationship with changes in design technologies such as parametric modeling, digital fabrication, and scripting. Among other things, the event will consist of an exhibition and a series of workshops dedicated to parametric software systems.

Source Files:
The Grasshopper Primer_Second Edition.pdf (size: 10.7mb - right-click and select 'Save Link As' - adobe acrobat needed)
Primer Source Files (size: 193k - right-click and select 'Save Link As' - this is a collection of definitions and Rhino files needed to complete the examples in the primer)

You can download the latest verson of Grasshopper (v.0.6.0059) from the forum. Here is a link: Grasshopper Version 0.6.0059

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Reader Comments (37)

Thanks for all the great work!!

03-23-2009 |

Fabian (San Diego)

allright ;)

thnx

03-23-2009 |

introspctor

a great, great, great thx!

03-24-2009 |

Andrea Graziano

;) great work!

03-24-2009 |

Dario

Where I can download Grasshopper plugin version 0.6.0007

03-24-2009 |

3Dcerj

Thanks a lot!

03-24-2009 |

vincenzo

thanks for this fantastic resource :)

03-24-2009 |

davide del giudice

Thanx!!!

03-24-2009 |

_aLinG_

thank you very much for this wonderful guide

03-24-2009 |

andrea polato

You can download Grasshopper version 0.6.0007 from the online forum. Here's a link: http://groups.google.com/group/grasshopper3d/browse_thread/thread/86f81be327d042f8?hl=en#

03-24-2009 |

AOP

Thanks

03-24-2009 |

3Dcerj

A real great great job!!!. Congratulations and thanks. It would be really difficult to follow all changes wiyhout this Manual!

03-25-2009 |

clonenature

thanks for the new primer, I will read it more carefully, before asking questions at the forum.

03-25-2009 |

tomot

Thanks for your work. I must add that the reference to Borges jst makes it interesting

03-25-2009 |

tikal26

I'm glad someone picked up on that :)

03-25-2009 |

AOP

Thank you for sharing. I liked the first edition, but look forward to this extension.

03-26-2009 |

Stefan Boeykens

Great!!!!!

03-27-2009 |

Funy

from France
Merci beaucoup de partager vos connaissances.Thanks

03-27-2009 |

gueye

awesome job! Infinite thanks for the VBnet part!

04-2-2009 |

Ale2x72

As alway, Thank you for such a well thoughtout tutorial. I owe all of my success up until this point to all the selfless tutorial writers like you.

04-2-2009 |

Zer0K_03

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