From the course: Grasshopper: Tips, Tricks, and Techniques

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Data trees as a master index and ID

Data trees as a master index and ID

- [Instructor] Welcome. I have my exercise file open already. In this video, I want to talk about how data trees, if they're well structured, and organized intentionally, can be used to ID parts. Let's say you're labeling parts or you're using the IDs for some other output process. So I have my file here, I'm generating this structure from a previous video. Not super important what the structure is, the important thing is that this structure is organized onto a really intentional data tree. So I have the horizontal sections on one branch, the vertical sections on the other branch, and then each individual section is on its own branch from bottom to top and left to right. So, let's say we want to bake this stuff back into Rhino but we want to name each part as we're baking it. So I have a component here, a custom scripted component which will bake this stuff if I double click on the toggle. So here's the…

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