Grasshopper 1 now supports Blocks Grasshopper 1 for Rhino 8 WIP now has several new components for creating and/or editing block definitions and instances. [BlocksToolbar3] With the click of a few buttons, you can create Block Definitions which can be baked (with object attributes) into your curr…

Yes, a new baking component is in the works. Hopefully more info on that soon.

Thanks Andy. Are you going to add User Attributes to the Grasshopper Rhino tab anytime soon? This and better baking, hopefully with a bake name or something similar and I don’t need eleFront anymore.

Hi Martin - [image] Martin Siegrist: Are you going to add User Attributes to the Grasshopper Rhino tab anytime soon? Andy just answered that one: [image] Andy Payne: This should be available in next week’s WIP release :slight_smile: -wim

Thanks, can’t wait :slight_smile:

[image] Martin Siegrist: can’t wait You’ll have to :sunglasses: -w

Thanks Andy, this is awesome. I was thinking about baking. I’m used to eleFront which uses a bake name. In my Rhino 7 definitions I’m using up to three different keyboard shortcuts to bake specific parts. However. I think a more robust solution would be a shortcut to select a component or all com…

We have discussed the ability to either overwrite geometry names in the baker with a text input… or possibly having a text input add a prefix to all baked geometry… I think we’ll have a nice solution that will update the correct elements without having to rely on naming to determine the correct obje…

Thanks, I’m looking forward to it. I’m baking so much stuff and deleting obsolete geometry manually would is a very tedious and cumbersome task. I was always a bit confused with the way eleFront added a user attribute key ‘BakeName(in-here-what-I_set)’ and a value with a path. [image]

@martinsiegrist the BakeName quirk you describe is left over from the original version of eleFront from 10 years ago that was, if I recall correctly, stemmed from the use/patterning of the GeometryCache. The new version of eleFront eliminated this and the BakeName works more like a traditional Key/…

Rhino 8 Feature: Build Blocks Better using Grasshopper

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AndyPayne (Andy Payne) February 1, 2023, 2:43pm 29

@martinsiegrist Please see this post about this feature. Three new GH1 components in Rhino 8 WIP

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