Never having really used them, can someone tell me in a couple of sentences what Relays do? I guess at my relative low level of user skill, I don’t understand what purpose they serve. Thx, –Mitch

Hey Mitch - they don’t do anything but you can use them to organize your definition. If wires cross components, you can insert a Relay and move that to the top or bottom of that component to deflect the wire. When you have several wires that connect to a component at the beginning of the definition…

OK, thanks, it’s kind of like a universal input parameter then. I have used individual “typed” parameter components in that way for example to “relay” a number further along in the definition.

Yup. And it’s more universal than I thought … [image] Even though the point that comes out of the Relay component turns red, the point did survive this. Maybe not a smart way of working with those… -wim

The other nice thing with Relays is you can make them by simply double clicking on wires rather than having to get a param and hook it up.

[image] Michael_Pryor: you can make them by simply double clicking on wires Ahh… that’s cool, thanks.

[image] Helvetosaur: what Relays do? [image] What is a relay? Grasshopper [image] [image] also if you have two components miles away from the input component it is better to double click the wire from the 1st component and connect from the relay instead of draggi…

Something also cool is that if you have a wire with multiple consecutive relays, you can rename the first one to whichever name you like and all the following relays will acquire said name. The bad thing is that they don’t draw any preview geometry. So if, for this very same case, you want to see t…

you need to track it down to the very origin. There is a shortcut to travel down the wire Automatically to the component connected. I can’t remember it.

[image] Michael_Pryor: I can’t remember it. This is kinda the key phrase :smiley: , no one can.

Seriously? I did not know that! Hope someone does remember. And what about traveling up the wire? That would be a great. No more panning endlessly.

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Michael_Pryor (ekim) February 21, 2020, 12:41am 12

Yes up and down stream. It’s a button + left or right arrow. Not at a computer, but if no one answers I’ll tell you once I get to a computer. My muscle memory is failing me.

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