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What is Grasshopper? From grasshopper.com: “Grasshopper® is a graphical algorithm editor tightly integrated with Rhino’s 3-D modeling tools. Unlike RhinoScript, Grasshopper requires no knowledge of programming or scripting, but still allows designers to build form generators from the simple to the awe-inspiring.” It allows geometric operations to be automated and programmed for design exploration.
Through its support of plug-ins, Grasshopper can also be extended to automate other processes that operate on geometry. Intact.Simulation for Grasshopper is just one example of these types of extensions.
Basic Data Types Grasshopper supports a wide range of data types from numbers, to strings and geometry. Here we'll only cover the basics that are of interest for Intact.Simulation specifically. Numbers Vectors LinesORD Geometry Breps (open and closed) Mesh (open and closed) Connectors Connectors are the glue that hold