I’ve been reworking one of my Grasshopper 1 designs in GH2 as a learning exercise. Happy to say I got a result and that after the initial unfamiliarity it felt much cleaner and more logical than GH1. And a lot faster.
I thought it might be useful to post some of the things that I stumbled over along the way. I’m using a Mac Studio M4 running Tahoe and this week’s release of Rhino 9 WIP.
- I looked for an equivalent of the Cap Holes component but couldn’t find one. I worked around it.
- Copy and paste for components works well but I miss the old option-drag. Is there an equivalent?
- When I drag a component or the end of a wire outside the window, I’d expect the canvas to scroll. It doesn’t.
- It used to be possible to type a number into a slider component. I can’t find a way to do that in GH2.
- The shout and listen components are really great but the All Listeners and All References buttons don’t seem to do anything. Even with careful labelling it’s easy to lose track of what’s shouting to what.
- I didn’t get many crashes but I had a lot of individual component freezing up with the blue three dot (ellipsis?) icon permanently displayed underneath. I couldn’t find a pattern except that it usually occurred when I was moving a slider too fast, so I guess it’s a timing issue. I could always clear it by recalculation and…
- …here’s a tip for anyone using the older Mac extended keyboard with the fn/globe key over on the right. You may find globe-shift-f5 for recalc a bit of a stretch unless you are a concert pianist. There’s an option in keyboard settings to reverse the action of the globe key so you get the function keys by default and hold down globe for brightness, sound volume etc. Or if you don’t use caps-lock much then you can re-assign the caps-lock key to be another globe key. Or you can buy a new extended keyboard – Apple have moved the globe key to bottom left.