Assigning baked geometry to new layer everytime I press the Bake button

[Samarth_Reddy]

Hi all.

I am new to grasshopper and elefront plugin. I am not sure if someone has already done this.

How do i create a layer based on the time data? (hh,mm,ss). and assign the baked geometry to it. the issue i was encountering is the clock doesnt refresh itself. i tried data dam, not sure how it works and where do i put it. can anyone help me in this.

Data dam = 0.25 seconds
Trigger = 10 ms

thank you very much in advance.

Test.gh (12.6 KB)

[dk2079]

there is a pretty old plugin for sun path simulation called “Heliotrope”

Heliotrope - Solar

it has a julian day node that can be triggered to update via button.

it works just fine for your situation. you could truncate the text string if the layer name is too detailed.

Test.gh (9.6 KB)

[Samarth_Reddy]

Thank you very much!

[Joseph_Oster]

Get current date fully in numbers (instead of letter) e.g. 2020-09-15

Here’s a Python thing; every time you push the button (or otherwise trigger the ‘x’ input?), the date/time updates: import datetime now = datetime.datetime.now() Y = now.year M = now.month D = now.day h = now.hour m = now.minute s = now.second [date_time.png] time_date_2019Jul8a.gh (5.5 KB) You can adapt it to get your desired format. I left out the leading zero, though it’s not that difficult… [time_date_2020Sep15a] time_date_2020Sep15a.gh (5.3 KB)

import datetime
now = datetime.datetime.now()
Y = now.year
M = now.month
D = now.day
h = now.hour
m = now.minute
s = now.second