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How to set component input data locally in Grasshopper

How to set component input data locally in Grasshopper

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How to set component input data locally in Grasshopper

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- [Instructor] There are essentially three different ways we can get input data into a Grasshopper component. The first is local definition where values are manually typed into the contextual menu. Second is direct definition where other components or parameters feed data into the component from their outputs. And the third is direct import from geometry modeled in Rhino. In this video, we'll work on the first technique, defining data locally. I'm working in the exercise file setting-local.gh. Here I have the construct point component. This takes in three numeric values as inputs and combines them into a single point in 3D space. If I hover over each of the inputs, I can see they're all set at the default value of zero, and that gives us a point at zero, zero, zero right at the origin. To change this, I can right click on any of the inputs, go down to Set Number, and just type in something else. So maybe I'd like this to…

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