Shape Files into Rhino

Grasshopper
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I am having issues getting even the simplest Shape files downloaded from Google My Maps into Rhino. I’ll typically use the “File Path” Component, find the file path, then connect this to an “Import SHP” component with the intent of having the data show up in Rhino. Instead the program just freezes up and
acts like its computing thousands of gigabytes of data.

Any thoughts on this? I just recently downloaded Rhino 7 so its unlikely that its an out of date version. The file units that I’m trying to import the Shape File into are in meters.

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Hi @Teegan ,
Grasshopper’s ‘Import SHP’ has been created without any consideration of the coordinate system (of the Shape file, not Rhino units system).
I would advise to instead use components from some of the Grasshopper GIS free plugins.
Like:
Gismo,
Heron
etc.

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Thanks for your response djordje,
I will take a look at these plugins and see if I can figure them out.

Thanks!

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The Heron plugin worked perfectly djordje, thank you very much for the suggestion!

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