Hello,
Let’s say I have one Block Instance in Rhino and I assign it in Grasshopper to the Block Instance Param.
Then I internalize data. Save the grashopper file. Open it in another Rhino instance and I see that the instance internalized is missing.
Hi @Erik_Beeren
Yes, I am aware that Blocks are stored in my rhino document. But so is other kinds of geometry.
Cuves can be internalized, Polysurfaces can be internalized, why not Blocks ?
Hi Bogdan -
I’m not at a computer at this point, but as far as I know, they are. Can you post a .gh file (with a block internalized, of course). [Yes, they are somewhat hiding…]
-wim
Hi @wim , correction on this one:
Internalized blocks won’t bake!
Open a new instance of Rhino,
Open the attached gh with two internalized blocks,
Try to bake.
251007 internalized block wont bake.gh (19.1 KB)
can’t understand what’s going wrong with your internalized block instances
just tested internalizing a simple sphere block, it looks fine in V 8 SR24 (8.24.25273.15001, 2025-09-30)
Hi @inno , you are not testing like I’m testing.
Don’t just open a new file, open a new instance of Rhino.
in my computer it’s the same identical result even if I open a brand new Rhino instance:
sphere_block_instance.gh (9.0 KB)
Save the grasshopper file.
Close all Rhino instances.
Open a new Rhino instance, Open the Grasshopper file. Try to bake.
I copied an internalized block instance component, closed all Rhino instances. Opened a new instance and pasted the instance component into Grasshopper from clipboard. I’m able to bake but what I don’t like is that the baked block instance always end up as ‘Embedded’ and there seems to be no way to bake it as ‘Linked’
@martinsiegrist this is strange…
If one opens my grasshopper file, and tries to bake, it should act as it acts for me. No bake at all…
what happens if you don’t use copy-paste?
Just open a new Rhino, open the Grasshopper file where you internalized the blocks and bake.
Thank you all for testing!
Yes, so you also don’t see them inside Rhino
I’m using the latest WIP.
Yes, I don’t see geometry in Rhino. Just a block definition.
I don’t know if this a is a bug. A block instance is a block definition with a plane. The block definition is saved in Rhino. You cannot save a block definition in Grasshopper. I thought maybe the internalised instance saves just the plane and ignores the geometry? Not sure. In the end you also cannot save / internalise a Rhino file inside Grasshopper or can you?
Well this goes back again to the above question.
If you are able to internalize Curves, Surfaces, and so on, Why not a block?
Maybe because a block (definition) is essentially like a separate Rhino file.
Well, in my view, if you are able to click Bake in Grasshopper, something should show up in the scene… You get a record of the block in BlockManager, the only thing missing is the geometry.
Exploding an internalised block instance lets you bake the content
Maybe @kike can explain what’s going on here?
