Grasshopper related: why is my file empty? referenced mesh not found?

Hi,

I am quiet new to Grasshopper and there are two issues which annoy me, as I can´t find out what I am doing wrong.
First: Whenever I save my file and reopen it, it is completely empty. The referenced mesh is not in Rhino ( it was an OBJ I imported). But the Nodetree still exsists.

Second: I thought I could use the node tree and just replace the mesh with another OBJ and It could work. It doesn´t. I still get the warning " A referenced mehs could not be found in the Rhino Document". And also the Fit line Node is all red “you need at least two points”. My object is closed. no open faces.
What am I missing? This is very importand for me, as I am doing my Uni project with it and I need to show it next week.

thx in advance.
Kind regards,

Bini

This all sounds confusing… when you talk about saving and reopening, do you mean the Rhino file? or the Grasshopper file?

How can you be referencing a mesh from Rhino if it’s not in Rhino? What is a nodetree?

Second: it should work. Where exactly are you getting this error?

Please check the pinned post on how to make useful posts, it’s currently difficult to help you because we don’t understand what you’re saying.

Hi,

sry for the confusion. I am usually using Blender 3D and wasn’t aware that the terminology could be different in Rhino/Grasshopper.
By re-opening I mean both, the Rhino file and the Grasshopper file. I saved my changes closed it. After opening the file the next day, Rhino was empty, like the OBJ which was imported the previous day wasn’t there.

With node tree I mean the structure you build inside Grasshopper. The components.

The error I get is actually at the very beginning. The Mesh component gives the warning (yellow) “A referenced mesh could not be found in the Rhino Document” and the Fit line component gives a warning (red) “you need at least two points”. Hope this helps.Pls see the attached screenshots

This shouldn’t happen. Just try reimporting it and saving the Rhino file again (and then referencing the newly imported Mesh). That should fix it all.

Since the mesh is indeed not inside Rhino, Grasshopper cannot reference it and can therefore not find any vertices, leading to your second error.