With Grasshopper2 in alpha, I thought I’d begin exploring the process of porting over some LunchBox tools. It is still very early days and I expect that there will be many changes to the the G2 SDK as it develops. Look for updates on this thread to track progress and get new download links.
This release has a small fraction of LunchBox’s more popular components:
- Mass: Create building floor/volume arrays constrained by area and floor boundary shapes
- Panel: Tesselate surfaces with panel divisions including triangle, quadrangles, and hexagons
- Structure: Tesselate surfaces with line-based divisions.
- Utility: A handful of utilities including Brep Shell, Brep Unroll, and Arc divide
- Workflow: Excel read/write, and Text read/write (with toggles)
To install:
- Download, unblock, and unzip LunchBox G2 Alpha (v0.0.1)
- Install Grasshopper2 through the Rhino 8 package manager
- Run the G2PluginViewer command in Rhino
- Choose “+ Install a Plugin Manually”
- Navigate and select the LunchBoxG2.rhp included in the above link
- Run G2 to open Grasshopper2. Look for the LunchBox menu tab!