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Exporting geometry

Exporting geometry

- [Instructor] Hello and welcome. I have an exercise file open already, in this video I want to focus on exporting geometry directly from Grasshopper. And there's a lot of plugins that do this but there's some advantages to building your own in terms of flexibility and eliminating some of the dependencies on various plugins. If you just need one simple export, so let's get started. This is a circle and it's only in Grasshopper there's no geometry in Rhino. And then this is the location that I'm going to export to. And here's a toggle that am going to use to turn my export or on and off. So let's set up our inputs on our component. So here call this OBJ, And set the type into to geometry. I'm leaving it as geometry, not curve because I want this to work for different types of geometry, not just a curve. So we're going to set that up in the beginning here We're going to change this to file Name, and I'm going to set…

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