From the course: Grasshopper Essential Training (2017)
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Installing the Ladybug plugin
From the course: Grasshopper Essential Training (2017)
Installing the Ladybug plugin
- In this video we'll download and install the Ladybug plugin for Grasshopper. So I'm on the Ladybug website, that's www.ladybug.tools. And on the left hand menu under download, you'll want to click the link for Grasshopper. That'll jump you to the Food 4 Rhino website, And this site is a great resource for all kinds of apps and plugins for Rhino and Grasshopper. So towards the bottom of the page you'll see a list of a bunch of different downloads. Now, instead of a download link, you may see a login link which means you need to register for an account on Food 4 Rhino, it's free. And the download that we're interested in is this Ladybug and Honeybee. Now, at the time of this recording we're looking at versions 0.0.65 and 0.0.61 respectively. You'll want to just grab the highest version that's available. So go ahead and click to download that. Okay, that download started, so we'll give that a minute. While I'm on Food 4 Rhino, I also want to download one additional component. And I've…
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Vector review6m 31s
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Intro to Ladybug plugin47s
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Installing the Ladybug plugin2m 50s
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Importing weather data with Ladybug4m 42s
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Analyzing wind data with Ladybug7m 55s
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Displaying Ladybug wind data with vectors5m 53s
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Visualizing wind data over time with Ladybug10m 58s
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Sunlight simulation with Ladybug8m 9s
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Calculating average sun vectors in Ladybug5m 56s
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Optimizing solar panels with Ladybug and vector cross product9m 44s
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Shadow study with Ladybug8m 36s
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Surface analysis with vector dot product8m 59s
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Aligning shapes to vectors10m 28s
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