Hi!
Most programs starts a new tab or something similar when opening a new document while the program is already running, but if you open a grasshopper-file by double clicking it in file explorer a whole new Rhino starts. Is there a way to change this setting?
Grasshopper has the functionality to have multiple scrips open at the same time, so I cant see why this isn’t possible.
Thanks for any suggestions.
It can be done (with some custom code) but it cannot be simply enabled (McNeel doesn’t provide the feature natively)
Ok, thanks for the input.
It’s not a big annoyance, so anything beyond ticking a box somewhere isn’t worth the hassle.
A few years ago I developed a plug-in for that purpose. Hopefully, I would update it to work with newer versions.
Very impressive!
I hope you will find the time to do an update for newer versions, because this looked very useful and easy to install.
Perhaps I am missing something, but I frequently open GH files simply by double-clicking them. Doing this starts Rhino, and then GH opens and and loads the selected GH file. I believe this is a standard function of Windows that happens as a result of file association: if you right-click on a GH file you get a list of options, one of which is Open with…
Selecting this gives you a dialog that lets you specify the program you want to use to open this type of file. That dialog has a check box that lets you always use the program to open the GH file type. So just specify Rhino. From then on double-clicking a GH file will cause Rhino to start, open GH, and load the file.
The OP wants the new GH file to be opened in an existing Grasshopper session.
I do that all the time by drag & drop from my file manager onto the GH window. I grant you it’s quite easy for me because I have 2 monitors, but if you get used to using Alt-Tab it’s pretty easy to do with only one screen.