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Should you want to access any of the BIM edit functions in ArchiCAD while using the Grasshopper connection, the geometry needs to be first ‘detached’. It is also possible to send the edits of geometry in ArchiCAD back to Rhino/Grasshopper, which also updates.
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By editing the Grasshopper scripts or values, the BIM model and associated components update in ArchiCAD. Through a live connection, Grasshopper scripts / edits can be previewed in a Rhino window and then applied directly to predefined 2D or 3D ArchiCAD elements. The system converts Rhino/Grasshopper geometry directly into GDL BIM elements, while maintaining the computational design control within Grasshopper. The new Grasshopper connection provides dynamic links to use the parametric geometry to drive the placement hand configuration of BIM components in ArchiCAD. The Rhino Import Add-on enables models created in Rhino to appear in ArchiCAD as GDL objects, maintaining the logical definition from the Rhino model.
Rhino Export Add-on enables users to pass on the geometry of a model produced in ArchiCAD to Rhino efficiently in a user-definable way. The ArchiCAD website makes available a pair of export and import add-ons that read and write Rhino’s native file format (3dm). The Rhino Export add-on enables users to pass on the geometry of a model produced in ArchiCAD to Rhino efficiently in a user-definable way Connectors McNeel says version 2 is more likely to be multi-platform.
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The bad news for ArchiCAD users is that while ArchiCAD runs on Windows and Mac OSX, Grasshopper only works on Windows, for now. Currently available as a public beta, the company expects to support the connection in January 2016. In a single alliance, Graphisoft has gone from nowhere in generative design to being able to run the most popular, free, computational design package on the planet.
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So those architects who have learnt to use Rhino and Grasshopper can now also run their scripts in ArchiCAD and drive a full Building Information Modelling (BIM) model. It seems for quite a while now, Graphisoft has been working with McNeel to build a link between Grasshopper and ArchiCAD. Graphisoft has been lagging its competitors in computational design, despite ArchiCAD’s powerful built-in GDL parametric development language. As a result Grasshopper and Rhino is a popular combination at the likes of Zaha Hadid, Buro Happold, HOK Sport and Foster + Partners.ĪrchiCAD is a popular BIM tool developed in Hungary by Graphisoft, which is part of the Nemetschek group. Programs are created by dragging components onto a canvas. While scripting in Python or higher languages is still a useful tool for the dedicated computational design fan, Grasshopper introduced a very simple, plug, play and wiring interface, which built the script in the background. Then McNeel & Associates introduced Grasshopper for its Rhino modelling tool and everything became a lot more visual. These employees would build project-specific tools to aid architects with complex conceptual geometry. In the right hands, computational tools take the pain out of modelling complex forms and can be used to create and evaluate new designs, while saving costs on fabrication.Įarly programs that enabled computational design required programming and scripting knowledge, which limited the appeal and created ‘toolmakers’ within signature architectural firms. So, for instance, if town planners think your complex helical skyscraper with diagrid glazing is 10 metres too tall, you can alter the size in the model and the whole building and diagrid curtain wall regenerates. It is popular among signature architects, academics and students and essentially drives the creation of complex parametric geometry from crafted scripts, programs, definitions and parametric constrained relationships. Computational design is a niche area and its rise may have passed many in the industry by.