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

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Pancake

Pancake

- [Instructor] Welcome, I have my exercise file open already. In this video, I'm focused on the Pancake plugin for Grasshopper. This is another in a series of videos looking at plugins that I believe really extend the functionality of Grasshopper. I'm using Pancake version 1.8.1 in this video. So if I go to Pancake, I can see, like most plugins, it comes with a series of components. And these components are generally focused on file output so I can export all these different geometry files. And this is great if I'm generating geometry within Grasshopper and I want to automate the process of exporting multiple files. In particular, exports like the IGES or SAT export might enable you to work more seamlessly with software tools like SolidWorks, or perhaps using the SketchUp export if you're working back and forth between Rhino and SketchUp. But I typically use Pancake more for its tools that manage interoperability within…

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