Hi everyone,
I’m a 4th-year Industrial Design student. I’ve been using Rhinoceros for almost 5 years, and only recently I realized that Grasshopper is a real game changer, in my humble opinion. I want to learn it, but I don’t know where to start. Could you please guide me? Also, I’d love it if you could share your own experience of learning it.
Thanks for everything for now.
I started a year ago, no experience with Rhino, but with FreeCad and some other CAD-systems.
I have choosen this traject:
Learn the basics of Rhino. On the Rhino - Learn to use Rhino there are more tutorials.
You allready know Rhino, so skip this.
Did a short introduction on grasshopper. Computational Design for (Industrial) Designers using Rhino Grasshopper — Rhino Grasshopper Open Access Education
(this is an online book, you can do this complete course in a couple of hours).
Then started designing stuff I already made, like (my list):
Have fun, regards, Eef
Use it often, daily. (any software you want to learn require this)
Have a target, a goal. Make a simple project, and then do that until completion.
As said @Eef_Weenink , follow the forum as often other questions are interesting, see others solutions and maybe try to provide yours (I too learned this way)
Thanks a lot
I’VE spent many hours in Grasshopper. It’s not suitable for all projects.
Several times I’ve gone back to the drawing board (metaphorically).
A purist approach is—initially—not to create anything in Rhino, but—quite literally—to start at the Origin (0,0,0) and build out from there. You can always Bake parts along the way.
For a particular object—begun at the Origin—it is often best to move first and then rotate. If the design intention is an object that has symmetry, then observe this around the Y axis.
IMO, starting from scratch, at the Origin, forces the most learning and would give you the greatest flexibility later on. Thus, you’re not building a 3D model, rather building a formula to create a 3D model.
Grasshopper is another level of abstraction and another language and it requires re-thinking.
I think it’d be good to know where would you like to end up? If Grasshopper is a game changer for you, what would it help you achieve you can’t currently? That might give you a goal and help get started.
YES. Grasshopper is another language; it is an abstraction upon an abstraction. It is hard to learn in the abstract. One should have a concrete object or project. If you were set down in Paris for a year, you would learn French!