Can Blender and Rhino share Python scripts?

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Anybody have either a quick-n-dirty or highly detailed answer to this? Maybe a fun rabbit hole :nerd_face:

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Blender API and Rhino APIs are completely different.

However:

  • Rhino Inside works in Blender (headless). This I have briefly tested, it should work. Requires a valid Rhino installation.
  • In theory you probably could use bpy when Blender is built as a Python module, however any code with this cannot be distributed due to GPL v3.0, and as such is incompatible with Rhino license. Further more there are no pre-built versions of bpy against Python 3.9, which Rhino 8 uses.

With a lot of work and writing conversions in both directions you probably could make something, but it is going to be tough to maintain.

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Thanks Nathan. I’ll mark this as answered, and leave it to someone smarter and more driven than myself to take on that particular beast, then.

BTW, not sure if I mentioned this in another post already, but I’ve begun my decent into the rabbit hole of your github rhipy :nerd_face:

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You mean descent?

Awesome! I’ll try keep adding example literate programs like that explain how Rhino APIs work.

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Indeed I do.