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

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Reading RhinoDoc

Reading RhinoDoc

- [Instructor] Hello and welcome. This is the second in a series of videos focused on coding within Grasshopper, specifically for non coders. And we're looking at why you might want to dip your toe into coding your own custom components in the Grasshopper environment. In this video specifically, we're looking at reading information from the Rhino document. So I have a component here, I'm going to bake it. So now I have some geometry in the document to work with and I'm going to go to math, C sharp component. I'm going to build a custom component here to get information from Rhino. So I don't need any inputs, I'm going to delete these first and I'm going to go inside here. So I'm going to talk through the process of writing this out. So first I'm going to create a list of IDs and this is going to be an empty list of GUIDs. IDs are how documents and models for all kinds of software track the object, so every object has a…

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