Hi,
I need the help from an expert here. I’ve been using the “AttachGHSData” command for quite a while by I can’t get the “conditions” option to work. The conditions options according to documentation ":
After contacting “Creative Systems” (makers of GHS) for more information, I made sure that I installed GHSCOM correctly and after doing so I was asked to contact Rhino support team- so here I am hoping you can help me.
Hello - well, I am not the expert you are looking for, I guess that would be Steve Baer, but I see the notes only refer to V3 and V4; I do not know if the whole system is even compatible with later versions of Rhino - @stevebaer - do you have an idea?
Hi again,@stevebaer
I was wondering maybe the function doesn’t work because I don’t have any GHS plug-in installed. I can’t see the “GHSPLUG” any where in the plug-in manager:
Hi Lior,
GhsPlug is not really what Rhino considers a plug-in and wouldn’t show up in the UI. I suspect that ghsplug may still be 32 bit which would be a problem as Rhino is now a 64 bit only application. I haven’t heard a single request for this feature for probably ten years, so I suspect it just wasn’t all that useful. You can definitely achieve the same results by running GHS with the model that you export from Rhino.
Hi Steve @stevebaer,
I actually got the feeling while searching for a solution that the conditions function isn’t well documented and hasn’t been used for a while as you noted. Regarding GHSPLUG I’ll contact creative systems and ask if it is 32 or 64 bit based.
I understand that I can export a GHS geometry file and conduct hydrostatic analysis in a iteratively manner but after acquiring the needed GHSCOM module from creative systems I’m interested in getting the GHS plug-in to work as documented both in rhino and creative systems support websites.
Hi Steve, @stevebaer,
I just got an answer back from Creative Systems. As you suspected correctly “GHSPLPUG.DLL” is only 32-bit and there isn’t a 64-bit version yet. I hope they update the plug-in and get it working again with rhino 6 and rhino 7 in the future.
I’m currently planning on installing rhino 5 which from what I understand still supports 32-bit plugins and check out how the function works and see if it’s even worth all the fuss.
Additionally, I would recommend updating the “AttachGHSData” command documentation accordingly.
Thanks,
Lior
Hi Lior,
This is a rarely used feature and we just forgot that it stopped working a long time ago (Creative Systems did let me know several years ago, but I dropped the ball).
I don’t think it ever proved to be all that useful, so I added a bug to my list to remove the feature in Rhino’s user interface.
hoping you can help me.
