Parametric Engineering

How to write C# components in Visual Studio for Grasshopper? If you have the Visual Studio community 2017, you have to also download assembler for grasshopper v6. https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=McNeel.GrasshopperAssemblyforv6 After downloading the file, start it. The VS community 2017 should be chosen automatically. Now you can start VS 2017 one more time, in the new project, you should find new options: If you choose Visual C# > Rhinoceros > Grasshopper Add-on for v6, a new window will appear: The missing files have to be added to references. The RhinoCommon and Rhino.exe you will probably find somewhere on C disc (in my case it is C:\Program Files\Rhinoceros 5 (64-bit) ). The Grasshopper.dll file location you should check on your disc through searching enginge ( in my case it was :  C:\Program Files\Common Files\McNeel\Rhinoceros\5.0\Plug-ins\Grasshopper (b45a29b1-4343-4035-989e-044e8580d9cf)\0.9.76.0 ). Click finish and new empty code sh

How to start scripting c# in Visual Studio? First you have to download Visual Studio Community 2017. Here you can download the newest version! https://www.visualstudio.com/downloads/ After downloading choose versions and install: After installing choose new project: In new project choose console application: Click ok and you are ready to codeing!

The programming skills starts to be essential for nowadays engineer.  The  open source software create a great chance for developing automation in engineering, but also demand some programming knowledge from the structural engineers. Here I will try to slowly introduce engineers in to the basic programming knowledge. The main focus will be on the Finite Element Method in the parametric environment, but also the approach to some Eurocodes will be shown. The main programming language will be c# and python. The software in which I will be working will be the Grasshopper (add-on for Rhino) and Autodesk Dynamo. To start our journey with programming I have to explain the main types which you will find in codes: string - the text type, you can store letters, words or sentences in it. For example: string text1 = "architect is not engineer" ; Let's try to understand this declaration of variable in C#. First we are giving the type ( string ) then we are setti