Rhino Grasshopper Web Application Framework Presentation

[scottd (Scott Davidson)]

This past few months we have rolled out some projects that allow Rhino/Grasshopper geometry and our geometry engine to be accessed from almost anywhere.

Here is a presentation by Steve Baer presenting how our technologies can be used to create web applications. The first 20 minutes is the overview and the rest is a workshop digging into the code.

This ties together these 3 projects:

1. Rhino Compute - online accessible geometry calculator
2. Rhino3DM.js - JavaScript library to access and manipulate geometry independent of Rhino. There is also a 3DMLoader included with Three.js which can be tested in the Three.js Editor
3. Rhino Compute Appserver - an Application manager between client apps and cloud services including private compute.rhino3d servers.

We would love any feedback

[tristan.antonsen]

Hello! This is amazing, thanks for making it so publicly available.

I’m trying to get it running locally and when running compute as a debug build in Visual Studio I’m running into the error:

“The debug executable ‘C:\Users…\compute.geometry.exe’ specified in the ‘compute.geometry’ debug profile does not exist.”

I’m not a developer (engineer who uses Grasshopper a lot), but I’m trying to get this running for a proof-of-concept project. I’m not sure if this is an issue on my end with Visual Studio or if something is out of date, etc., so I figured I’d post here to see if it’s a known hiccup. I’m running Visual Studio 2019 (professional) on a fresh install and the compute files are downloaded/unzipped into the directory.

If anyone can please point me in the right direction to troubleshoot this that would be much appreciated. Thank you in advance!

[h.vincent]

Hi,
I tried to put into place this framework (local debug, no deployment yet) and I have issues getting a view of the geometry in the web app. I am testing the spiky ball example.
The 3D model does not appear. When I change the parameters, the geometry seems to be loading with the new inputs but nothing is rendered in the web app.
If anyone could help, that would be nice.
Hugues

[stevebaer]

Are you still having problems with this? You might want to look at your developer panel in your browser to see if any errors are being reported.

[b0g3]

Hello, I don’t know if you still have the issue but I went threw today.

Solution is that you have to “Build” the project in the first place (Right click on compute.geometry, if no working “Re-build” … then some issues can appear’s to help you understand why it does’nt have automatically build).