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

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Reading settings

Reading settings

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Reading settings

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- [Instructor] Welcome. I have my exercise file open already. In this video we're going to put together some of the things we've been doing over the past few weeks. We're going to read a file in a settings file, this is similar to like in any file that a lot of software programs use where they store settings externally in a flat file. And then we're going to use those settings to build something in Grasshopper. And this is really useful if you're going to hand your scripts off to someone who doesn't want to use grasshopper doesn't really know how it works. They can edit a text file and just hit go and generate whatever the geometry is that they need. So here's the location of the file. Remember, you need to make sure that this file location it works on your computer. So you want to find this box sending text file that stored with the exercise files. So first I'm going to read this in by going params, input, read file…

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