Rhino3d Engine as a web service?

[nathanletwory (Nathan 'jesterKing' Letwory)]

@jchun726

In fact they also dont know much about Blender - they think computing geometries purely using Python api without running an actual software in server is the answer though)

It is not possible to do that without running Blender on the server.

@jchun726

The design computation team has scripted all the national building regulations necessary for the schematic design (i.e. volumatric study) in python in Grasshopper environment, and tested the modeling system successfully.

Since you have already much work done on top of Rhino through Grasshopper I would think that it is most useful to continue that way. Blender is completely different from Rhino, the SDKs and APIs are not swappable. Furthermore, Grasshopper functionality exists through Rhino Compute as well, see

Grasshopper within compute.rhino3d

Hello, @dekanifisher ! It’s not only possible, but there is already a prototype! Have you heard of Resthopper? It was a project at the Thornton Tomasetti AEC Tech hackathon that McNeel kindly incorporated into their compute.rhino3d repo. @will just finished updating the public server at compute.rhino3d.com to reflect the latest changes. The route that you are looking for is compute.rhino3d.com/grasshopper. It accepts a POST request with three fields: { "algo" : "Your bit-64 encoded string …

/Nathan
Rhino and Blender dev.