Feature request: %<this.host.style>% inside GH styles

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Hi all,

Since we now have this beautiful GH styles guide on the new VA help site: Grasshopper Styles | VisualARQ help

With these basic GH style host reference options:

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And we also have a workaround for referencing and using blocks in GH styles:

Wouldn’t it be great to have the ability to work with %<this.host.style>%?

I’d like to read the style properties of host objects (walls, slabs/roofs). For instance names, widths and section atributes of their layers. I would like to read not only “general style” properties, but also any “modified (by objects) style properties” of individual host objects.

This could be a game-changer. For instance, this could help to solve GH window wrapping in multiple multilayer façade scenarios, allowing us to handle everything within a single GH window style. It might even be possible to match section attributes, layers or materiality of GH style geometry to those of host layers automatically - eliminating the need for manual adjustments or number of different styles for each project.

“One GH style to rule them all, one GH style to find them…” :man_mage: :smiley:

What do you think?

Thanks,

Michal

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Hi @MichalKrizo thanks for this request. We will study the way to implement this, and be able to retrieve information of the host object style when creating a Grasshopper Style.

Regarding the option to recognize and assign attributes to the VisualARQ Styles according to Host attributes or parameters, that’s a different story. We’d like to make it work, of course, but we first need to make the R8 components that deal with attributes compatible with the VisualARQ components and styles.

:laughing:

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@MichalKrizo This could be insanely awesome! It would be useful for multiple advanced operations during the design phase! Great suggestion!

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