I was trying to bake a couple of objects into the rhino doc within a grasshopper style. The c# component I have works with a headless version of grasshopper, but when I put it into a grasshopper style it doesn’t bake anything.
Is there anyway to control what visual arq bakes into the visual arq element? I’m assuming that behind the scene visualarq is taking the grasshopper output and wrapping that inside some sort of VA wrapper class which takes care of all the data and event like updating the custom property panel. Is there anyway I can bake items to the active doc so that they have data in them, create a visual arq object from those baked items and then access thoose items?
Hi @Benjamin_Paolo_Fortu you need to connect the different parts of your Grasshopper definition to “ending” Output components (that are not further connected to any other component), that will become the different geometrical parts of your object created as a Grasshopper Style.
These output components can be geometrical, but also Integers, Texts, Numbers, so you can display (and list) calculated values for the VisualARQ objects in their properties panel. Please check out this page (where it says “Output parameters” In the chapter “Grasshopper definition setup”): Grasshopper Styles | VisualARQ help
The geometry inside a VisualARQ GH Style can only get the Name as metadata that is preserved when you explode the object.
The other parameters (the input&output parameters generated in the Grasshopper definition), or the custom parameters that can be assigned to the object later on, can be retrieved from the Get Value component, in Grasshopper.
I was actually trying to output an object that is not part of the grasshopper style, for example a helper object like a solid that might be used in a boolean difference operation.