Offload meshing to rhino compute

Grasshopper Developer
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Is it possible to offload meshing to rhino compute?
I usually just give up when my grasshopper tries to preview gazillion breps and blows out my PC memory but maybe servers can handle this.
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If speed is too much to ask for, I just want to avoid the crash with the “out of memory” pop up.

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Yes, it is possible. Among other considerations, you should consider the latency that comes with pushing BREPs across a network and getting the results back.

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thanks
that’s indeed something to watch out for. i forget that it could be hundreds of MB of stuff…

so i tried to reference the rhino3dm.dll in a C# component as well as loading the python library into a GhPython (already copied package folder into Rhino’s python paths). neither worked. do i have to compile a plugin?
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I see both the RhinoCompute.cs and the compute-rhino3d python package reference the rhino3dm library so they won’t work either.

btw the RhinoCompute.cs file is missing on the developer portal
Calling Compute with .NET with Csharp (rhino3d.com)