This is a support forum thread for Monoceros 3 and upgrading from Monoceros 1 and 2 (formerly Monoceros Pro). Please, ask your questions here and I’ll try my best to answer.
Jan
Hi Jan, maybe i missed it on your website > Monoceros 3 | Strategies & Example Workflows (quite dense with text) but is there an example / demo .gh file that show the features so i can have a look and test, particular you proposed strategies 1.1 and 1.2
Hey!
Sorry, I haven’t managed to create the example files yet, but they would be too many anyway. I suggest you try the AI assistant to guide you step by step.
Or stay tuned, as I we going to produce examples in various fields in the coming weeks. The idea is to show how Monoceros 3 can be employed for various projects, rather than showing the particular workflows. That will be taught at workshops, if you are interested.
Hope this helps at least a bit and if you have any particular question, please, reach out again.
I have prepared some downloadable example files and put them to https://monoceros.tools
Can Monoceros solve this?
There is a 3D puzzle called CrazyCubes that involves putting 12 pieces like this:
into a box like this:
to achieve this:
Supposedly there are roughly 3000 ways to do this, but finding just 1 is fiendishly difficult. There is 1 video on YouTube that shows how to do it. I’d like to know if Monoceros can find at least some of the ways to solve this. There are only 2 constraints: All the pieces have to fit inside the box, and there can be no empty spaces inside the box.
I haven’t looked at the Monoceros docs yet, so I can’t tell if these are really only one constraint. But it would be nice if I could show at least a couple of different solutions for this puzzle.
PS: There are actually 2 versions of the CrazyCubes puzzle - one with 13 pieces, and this one with 12. There are several YouTube videos showing how to solve the 13 piece version, but those videos are useless for this version.
Hey
this is exactly the kind of problem Monoceros solves best!
You can use your favorite AI chatbot to help you out. Just follow these instructions.
And if you get stuck, let me know.
Best
Jan
Great news - thanks.
Use Megamodules, put a Terminator on each exposed face, turn on Require Terminators and Indifference and that should be it. Almost no setup.
I’ve got your software installed and it seems to be working OK. I’ve also got the introductory GH files - there’s lots going on there for sure - not to mention all the toolbar stuff. Will take a look at Megamodules & Terminator etc. Thanks for the tips.
first of all, sorry for the troubles. Have you installed Monoceros 3 via the (a) Package manager in Rhino or (b) by downloading the plugin from Food4Rhino and copying it to your libraries folder?
Method (a) is strongly recommended as it is hassle-free. If you decide to use the Package manager after you have installed Monoceros manually, then please remove the gha and dylib files from your components folder and then run the PackageManager command from your Rhino.
If you chose method (b), then please make sure you copied both files monoceros-wfc-0.5.1.dylib and Monoceros3.gha to your libraries folder. If both files are there and you are still getting the error message, you may have encountered the “Apple could not verify…” message. If so, please click “Done”. If you clicked “Move to Trash”, you’ll have to copy it to the components folder again. Then please follow the instructions in the Quick start guide
macOS: open Terminal and run the following command to remove
the macOS quarantine flag from the Monoceros files, regardless of where they
were installed:
find ~/Library/Application\ Support/McNeel -name “monoceros-wfc-*.dylib” -exec xattr -d com.apple.quarantine {} ;If you see a macOS security warning saying a file named
monoceros-wfc-…dylib could not be opened, the native solver
library still has the quarantine flag. Open System Settings,
go to Privacy & Security, and scroll down to the Security
section. You will see a line saying the file was blocked, with an
Allow Anyway button — click it. This only needs to be done
once.Restart Rhino
I apologize for the inconvenience. I am not aware of a simpler method or a way to resolve the problem on my side.
Hope this helps. Please, let me know.
Method a worked, thanks!
