Imagine someone was rebuilding Grasshopper today, no legacy constraints, just a clean slate and everything 2025/2026 tech could offer. What are the things that absolutely need to stay, because they make Grasshopper Grasshopper? And what are the parts that feel outdated, clunky, or just get in your …

Yeah, I’ve seen that, it’s been cooking for quite a while! Just curious what people would imagine in a real reboot. What would you change if you could dream big?

Grasshopper 2 is a complete rewrite, what would make it more of a “real reboot”?

I posted the same thing on Reddit , seems like the community has a few big things they want to see, currently not included int the rewrite as far as I know.

@Jan-niklas - you might encourage the Reddit community to post their wishes here. – Dale

I always dreamt of a better integration into Rhino workflow-wise. While the added Rhino tab in Grasshopper already provides some great functionality in version 8, I think it could still be way smoother and less convoluted. The whole idea of importing geometry into and “baking” geometry from Grassho…

As a Grasshopper user I cannot align my text Right or Center. Yet I must gaze upon the greyed-out option. This is the law of the panels. [image]

I, for one, would like to assign User Text attributes to subobjects like surface edges, polycurve segments and points. And my hole os that for GH2, model objects will be the norm, so any model curve that is trimmed, extended or exploded will be propagated to its resultant objects (i.e. metadata is …

Just enable multiline, set your alignment, and switch back. You have to be smarter than the computer. [image]

If Grasshopper was rebuilt for 2026, what should change or stay?

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If Grasshopper was rebuilt for 2026, what should change or stay?

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