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01. My First Definition


Tutorial Screenshots:

           

Own "Riff" Screenshots:
For my riff, I wanted to try out curves, bi-arc, and lofting separate parts. But I also wanted to test out commands I often used in Rhino to see the difference between Rhino and Grasshopper. Turns out, fillet edge on extruded cylinders from points on a curve does not work... It's apparently not as simple which is great... I was really tempted to manually fillet individual edges in Rhino after I bake Grasshopper shapes. But I resisted because I wanted to see what I can achieve with the least amount of Rhino commands possible. I think I ended up making a bowl with a lot of "Saturns" on the brim of the bi-arced base shape. 



   

Problems I ran into:
Some tricky things I've run into are double-clicking to type a command and right-clicking. I keep reversing it, so when I try to type a command I'd try to right-click to do it. Then when I wanted to find "set one curve" I keep wanting to double click one of those battery icons.

I also wished that I could hold the alt/option and just drag the batteries to copy a new set. But apparently, alt in Grasshopper means a different thing, so I have to go old school and command+c, command+v everything. 

Maybe this is an Apple thing, but if I opened the Rhino and Grasshopper file separately then it won't work. In fact, the Rhino disconnects to the Grasshopper file, the Grasshopper file opens up a new rhino file without any of the curves or lofts. Which is a little strange and I have to keep it in mind to open both at the same time initially, even if I don't need to use Grasshopper right away. 

Lofting, didn't know there was a hidden "closed loft" checkbox I had to click. So I re-did my own "riff" design so many times because I thought I was doing something wrong in the process. 

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