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

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Sorting inputs

Sorting inputs

- [Instructor] Welcome, I had my exercise file open already. This is going to be the first of two videos focused on sorting. If I want to take Geometry from Rhino into Grasshopper, and sort it onto data trees to make it easier to work with, then we need a way to categorize geometry, similar to how a human being would categorize geometry, and then place it on the right data tree structures, or the right paths within a data tree structure. So first, I have my geometry here on the Grasshopper canvas, I'm going to Bake it into Rhino, then I'm going to delete this. So now I just have geometry. There's obviously no data tree structure, because it's geometry within Rhino. So I'll go to Params, Surface, I'm going to import these, and now I have them here in Grasshopper. And I want to organize them so that the vertical panels are in one branch of my data tree, and the horizontal panels are on another branch in my…

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