Contents

UI Common

Provides critical components for the MetricMonkey User Interface to function. In general, these components should not be modified.

Deconstruct Settings component
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Deconstruct Settings

Deconstructs MetricMonkey Settings into MetricMonkey Functions. Use in conjunction with the Read Settings component.

Input: Settings (MetricMonkey Settings).

Output: Functions (MetricMonkey Function).

Function Listener component
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Function Listener

Gets live Function data from the MetricMonkey Window.

Input: N/A.

Output: Functions (MetricMonkey Functions).

Launch Window component
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Launch Window

Creates and launches the MetricMonkey Window (User Interface). Right-click to disable always on top.

Input: Launch (Boolean), Location Cards (MetricMonkey Card), Context Cards (MetricMonkey Card), Site Cards (MetricMonkey Card), Design Cards (MetricMonkey Card), Generate Cards (MetricMonkey Card), Analysis Cards (MetricMonkey Card), Assistant Cards (MetricMonkey Card), and Layers Cards (MetricMonkey Card).

Output: N/A.

Read Settings component
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Read Settings

Reads the MetricMonkey Settings file (*csv) from the current Rhino model’s folder location. If no settings file can be found, the default settings will be used. Use in conjunction with Deconstruct Settings component.

Input: N/A.

Output: Settings (MetricMonkey Settings).

Save Settings component
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Save Settings

Creates/saves a *csv file with the MetricMonkey Settings of the current model every time the user saves the Rhino file. The file is named ‘MMS_YYMMDD_File name.csv’.

Input: Active (Boolean).

Output: N/A.

Colour Picker component
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Create Colour Picker

Creates a MetricMonkey Colour Picker field. Use in conjunction with the Custom Card component.

Input: Default Colour (Colour).

Output: Picker (MetricMonkey ColourPicker).

Combo Box component
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Create Dropdown

Creates a MetricMonkey Dropdown field. Use in conjunction with the Custom Card component.

Input: Label (Text), Default List (Data), Default Index (Integer).

Output: Dropdown (MetricMonkey Dropdown).

Text Box component
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Create Text Box

Creates a MetricMonkey Text Box field. Use in conjunction with the Custom Card component.

Input: Label (Text), Default Text (Text), Data Type (Integer).

Output: TextBox (MetricMonkey TextBox).

Custom Card component
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Custom Card

Creates a MetricMonkey Custom Card. Use in conjunction with the Launch Window component.

Input: Name (Text), Compute (Boolean), Fields (Varies), and Logo (File Path)

Output: Card (MetricMonkey Card).

Set Dropdown

Set Dropdown

Sets the list contents of a custom MetricMonkey Dropdown field.

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Output: N/A.

Set Text Box

Set Text Box

Sets the contents of an existing Metric Monkey Text Box field.

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Output: N/A.

Value Listener

Value Listener

Use to retrieve the values of custom MetricMonkey UI fields. By default it will automatically refresh when those values change.

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Create

Contains a collection of components to create MetricMonkey classes.

Create Location Grid

Create Location Grid

Creates a MetricMonkey Grid from the Crop Box showing Northing and Easting based on the Grid Projection.

Input: Grid Size (Integer), and Crop Box (Curve).

Output: Grids (MetricMonkey Grid).

Import 2D Context component
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Import 2D Context

Imports 2D context datasets based on the datasets selected in the Set Location card. All attributes and values are included from the source. However, keys are modified by adding a “Cadastre”, “Suburb”, or “Road” prefix.

Input: N/A.

Output: Cadastre (MetricMonkey Dataset), Suburb (MetricMonkey Dataset), and Road CL (MetricMonkey Dataset).

Import 3D Context component
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Import 3D Context

Imports 3D context datasets based on the datasets selected in the Set Location card. Use in conjunction with the Simplify Topography component and the Crop Context Buildings component. All keys and values are included from the source.

Input: N/A.

Output: Topography Mesh (Mesh) and Context Buildings (MetricMonkey Dataset).

Import Planning component
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Import Planning

Imports Planning datasets based on the datasets selected in the Set Location card. All keys and values are included from the source. However, keys are modified by adding a “LNZ”, “FSR”, “HOB” or “HER” prefix.

Input: N/A.

Output: Land Zoning (MetricMonkey Dataset), FSR (MetricMonkey Dataset), HOB (MetricMonkey Dataset), and Heritage (MetricMonkey Dataset).

Create Context Building

 

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Roads Card

Create Roads

Generates roads based on centreline curves, road widths and fillet radius. Curves are referenced from the MetricMonkey::Context_Roads layer.

Input: Road Dataset (MetricMonkey Dataset).

Output: Roads (MetricMonkey Dataset).

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Create Car Parking

Creates a MetricMonkey Parking Zone based on a closed polycurve and entry point. Geometry is referenced from the MetricMonkey::Site_Car Parking layer. Use in conjunction with the Car Parking Properties component.

Input: N/A.

Output: Parking (MetricMonkey Parking Zone).

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Create Deep Soil

Creates a MetricMonkey Zone based on a closed polycurve. Polycurve is referenced from the MetricMonkey::Site_Deep Soil Zone layer.

Input: Lot (MetricMonkey Lot).

Output: Zone (MetricMonkey Zone).

Create Lot component
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Create Lot from Curve

Creates a MetricMonkey Lot from a closed Rhino polycurve. Polycurve is referenced from the MetricMonkey::Site_Lot layer. Use in conjunction with the Create Development and the Get Lot Properties component.

Input: N/A

Output: Lot (MetricMonkey Lot).

Create Lot from GH Curve

Create Lot from GH Curve

Creates a MetricMonkey Lot from a closed Grasshopper polycurve. Use in conjunction with the Create Development and the Get Lot Properties component.

Input: Curve (Curve), ID (Number), FSR Allowed (Number), Site Coverage Allowed (Number), Front Setback (Number), Side Setback (Number), and Rear Setback (Number).

Output: Lot (MetricMonkey Lot).

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Create Open Space

Creates a MetricMonkey Zone based on a closed polycurve. Polycurve is referenced from the MetricMonkey::Site_Open Space Zone layer.

Input: Lot (MetricMonkey Lot).

Output: Zone (MetricMonkey Zone).

Create Pads

Create Pads

Creates a MetricMonkey Pad based on a closed polycurve. Pads may overlap one another. Their z-position determines if Fill is added, or Cut removed from the topography. If the input curve is not planar, the bottom most point used as the z-value. Polycurve is referenced from the MetricMonkey::Site_Pads layer.

Input: Topography Srf (Surface), and Pad Crvs (Curve).

Output: Pad (MetricMonkey Pad), Topography Solid (Brep), Cut/fill Volume (number), Contours (Curve).

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Place Trees

Places trees based on a point. If the point is within a Topography, the point’s height (z-value) will be automatically adjusted to intersect the topography. The trees’ size is globally controlled via the Trunk Radius, Trunk Height, Foliage Radius, and Foliage Height. Points are referenced from the MetricMonkey::Site_Trees layer. Use in conjunction with the Get Tree Properties component.

Input: Topography Srf (Surface) and Tree Pts (Points)

Output: Trees (MetricMonkey Tree)

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Select Lots

Creates a MetricMonkey Lot based on an imported cadastre dataset. Use points to select individual lots or draw a polycurve to amalgamate multiple lots into a single lot. For individual lots, ID and FSR properties are inherited from the original dataset.

Input: Cadastre (MetricMonkey Dataset), and FSR (MetricMonkey Dataset).

Output: Lot (MetricMonkey Lot).

Create Development component
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Create Development

Creates a MetricMonkey Development from MetricMonkey Masses and Lots.

Inputs: Mass (MetricMonkey Mass), and Lot (MetricMonkey Lot).

Outputs: Development (MetricMonkey Development), Buildings (MetricMonkey Building), and Lots (MetricMonkey Lot).

Create Massing from Brep component
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Create Mass from Brep

Creates a MetricMonkey Mass from a closed Rhino brep. Brep is referenced from the MetricMonkey::Design_Mass layer. Use in conjunction with the Create Development and the Get Mass Properties component.

Input: N/A

Output: Mass (MetricMonkey Mass).

Create Massing from Curve component
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Create Mass from Curve

Creates a MetricMonkey Mass from a closed Rhino polycurve. Polycurve is referenced from the MetricMonkey::Design_Mass layer. Use in conjunction with the Create Development and the Get Mass Properties component.

Input: N/A

Output: Mass (MetricMonkey Mass).

Create Massing from GH Brep component
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Create Mass from GH Brep

Creates a MetricMonkey Mass from a closed Grasshopper brep. Use in conjunction with the Create Development and the Get Mass Properties component.

Input: Brep (Brep), Function (MetricMonkey Function), Hierarchy (Integer), and Efficiency Type (Integer).

Output: Mass (MetricMonkey Mass).

Create Massing from GH Curve component
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Create Mass from GH Curve

Creates a MetricMonkey Mass from a closed Grasshopper polycurve representing the building footprint. Use in conjunction with the Create Development and the Get Mass Properties component.

Input: Curve (Curve), Function (MetricMonkey Function), Hierarchy (Integer), Height (Number), Storeys (Integer), and Efficiency Type (Integer)

Output: Mass (MetricMonkey Mass).

Corridor

Create Corridor

 

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Create Stairs

Create Stairs

Creates a MetricMonkey Stair based on a Corridor. The location is governed by the maximum dead-end distance and the maximum spacing between alternate exits. The size is based on a continuous vertical shaft given the varying floor-to-floor heights of the building. As a result, the number of flights per floor may vary. Use in conjunction with the Get Stair Properties component.

Input: Development (MetricMonkey Development), and Party Wall Grid (Curves).

Output: Stair (MetricMonkey Stair).

Query

Contains a collection of components to deconstruct MetricMonkey classes.

Get Dataset Properties

Get Dataset Properties

Deconstructs a MetricMonkey Dataset into its constituent properties.

Input: Dataset (MetricMonkey Dataset).

Output: Keys (Text), Geometry (Geometry), and Values (Text).

Get Location Grid Properties

Get Location Grid Properties

Deconstructs a MetricMonkey Location Grid into its constituent properties. Use in conjunction with the Create Location Grid component.

Input: Grid (MetricMonkey Location Grid).

Output: Northing Lines (Line), Northing Value (Number), Easting Lines (Line), and Easting Values (Number).

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Site Finder

Takes a Cadastre dataset and filters lots based on filters defined from the user interface.

Input: Cadastre Dataset (MetricMonkey Dataset).

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Get Lot Properties component
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Get Lot Properties

Deconstructs a MetricMonkey Lot into its constituent properties. Use in conjunction with the Create Development component.

Input: Lot (MetricMonkey Lot)

Output: ID (Text), Curves (Curve), Surfaces (Surface), Area (Number), FSR (Number), FSR Allowed (Number), GFA Allowed (Number), Site Coverage Allowed (Number), Site Coverage (Number), and Site Coverage Delta (Number).

Get Topography Properties

Get Topography Properties

Deconstructs a MetricMonkey Topography into its constituent properties. Use in conjunction with the Detailed Topography component.

Input: Topography (MetricMonkey Topography).

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Get Tree Properties

Deconstructs a MetricMonkey Tree into its constituent properties. Use in conjunction with the Place Trees component.

Input: Trees (MetricMonkey Tree)

Output: Location (Point), Trunk (Brep), and Foliage (Brep).

Get Building Properties component
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Get Building Properties

Deconstructs a MetricMonkey Building into its constituent properties. Use in conjunction with the Create Development component.

Input: Building (MetricMonkey Building).

Output: ID (Text), Height (Number), MaxRL (Number), MinRL (Number), GBA (Number), GFA (Number), Plane (Plane), Geometry (Geometry), Massing (MetricMonkey Mass), Levels (MetricMonkey Level), Floorplates (MetricMonkey Floorplate), and Envelope (MetricMonkey Envelope).

Get Development Properties component
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Get Development Properties

Deconstructs a MetricMonkey Development into its constituent properties. Use in conjunction with the Create Development component.

Input: Development (MetricMonkey Development).

Output: Lot Area (Number), FSR (Number), GBA (Number), GFA (Number), Height (Number), MaxRL (Number), and MinRL (Number).

Get Envelope Properties component
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Get Envelope Properties

Deconstructs a MetricMonkey Envelope into its constituent properties. Use in conjunction with the Get Building Properties component (upstream) and the Get Item Properties component (downstream).

Input: Envelope (MetricMonkey Envelope).

Output: Roof Item (MetricMonkey Roof), Facade Item (MetricMonkey Façade), and Base Item (MetricMonkey Base).

Get Floor Properties component
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Get Floorplate Properties

Deconstructs a MetricMonkey Floorplate into its constituent properties. Accepts both building and massing floorplates.

Input: Floorplate (MetricMonkey Floorplate).

Output: Curve (Curve), Surface (Surface), Slab (Brep), Colour (Colour), Function (MetricMonkey Function), GBA (Number), GFA (Number), and Level (MetricMonkey Level).

Get Function By Name component
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Get Function By Name

Returns a MetricMonkey Function given a name. Use in conjunction with the Function Listener component.

Input: Functions (MetricMonkey Functions), and Name (Text).

Output: Function (MetricMonkey Function).

Get Function Properties component
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Get Function Properties

Deconstructs a MetricMonkey Function into its constituent properties.

Input: Functions (MetricMonkey Function), and Name (Text).

Output: Name (Text), Colour (Colour), Atypical Levels (MetricMonkey Levels), Atypical Heights (Number), Typical Height (Number), Slab Thickness (Number), Roof Build-Up (Number), Lift Overrun (Number), Efficiencies (Number).

Get Function Properties By Name component

Get Function Properties By Name

Deconstructs a MetricMonkey Function into its constituent properties given a name. Use in conjunction with the Function Listener component.

Input: Functions (MetricMonkey Function), and Name (Text).

Output: Name (Text), Colour (Colour), Atypical Levels (MetricMonkey Levels), Atypical Heights (Number), Typical Height (Number), Slab Thickness (Number), Roof Build-Up (Number), Lift Overrun (Number), Efficiencies (Number).

Get Item Properties component
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Get Item Properties

Deconstructs a MetricMonkey Item into its constituent properties. Accepts MetricMonkey Roofs, MetricMonkey Façades, and MetricMonkey Base Items. Use in conjunction with the Get Envelope Properties component.

Input: Item (MetricMonkey Item).

Output: Geometry (Geometry), Function (Text), and Colour (Colour).

Get Level Properties component
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Get Level Properties

Deconstructs a MetricMonkey Level into its constituent properties.

Input: Level (MetricMonkey Level).

Output: ID (Text), Name (Text), Plane (Plane), and Parent (MetricMonkey Building).

Get Mass Properties component
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Get Mass Properties

Deconstructs a MetricMonkey building Massing into its constituent properties.

Input: Massing (MetricMonkey Mass).

Output: Height (Number), Storeys (Integer), Hierarchy (Integer), Efficiency Type (Integer), GBA (Number), GFA (Number), Function (MetricMonkey Function), Colour (Colour), Geometry (Geometry), Lot (MetricMonkey Lot), Levels (MetricMonkey Lot), Lift Overrun (Number), Floorplates (MetricMonkey Floorplate), and Roof (MetricMonkey Roof).

Get Roof Properties component
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Get Roof Properties

Deconstructs a MetricMonkey Roof into its constituent properties. Use in conjunction with the Get Mass Properties component.

Input: Roof (MetricMonkey Roof).

Output: Geometry (Geometry), and Colour (Colour).

Get Corridor Properties

Deconstructs a MetricMonkey Corridor into its constituent properties.

Input: Corridor (MetricMonkey Corridor).

Output: CL Curve (Curve), Wall CL Curve (Curve), Surface (Surface), Volume (Brep), and Colour (Colour).

Get Stair Properties

Get Stair Properties

Deconstructs a MetricMonkey Stair into its constituent properties. Use in conjunction with the Create Stairs component.

Input: Stair (MetricMonkey Stair).

Output:

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2D Isovist Analysis

Given a Source Point, it shows the area visible on a horizontal plane through 360 degrees.

Input: Obstructions (Geometry), and Radius (Number).

Output: Isovist (Surface).

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Figure Ground Analysis

Creates a Figure-Ground diagram, also known as Nolli diagram, to illustrates the relationship between built (figure) and unbuilt space (ground). Ensure that Context Buildings have been imported or referenced into the project.

Input: Context (Geometry), and Topography Surface (Geometry)

Output: Figure Ground Surface (Surface).

Heatmap View Analysis

 

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Sky View Factor Analysis

 

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Solar Access Analysis

 

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Solar Radiation Analysis

 

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Travel Path

Travel Path Analysis

 

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Modify

Layer Intersect

Layer Intersect

Performs a GIS intersection of a cadastre dataset and overlay datasets to embed off the metadata into the cadastre dataset.

Input: CadastreDataset (MetricMonkey Dataset), and Intersecting Datasets (MetricMonkey Dataset).

Output: Cadastre Dataset (MetricMonkey Dataset).

Crop Context Buildings component
Crop Context Buildings

Crop Context Buildings

Crops and separates the Context Buildings based on the Crop Box and Mask Region. Accepts surfaces, breps, and meshes. Where possible, breps and meshes are capped to create a solid brep/mesh.

Input: Context Buildings (Geometry).

Output: Context Buildings (Geometry), and Demolished Context (Geometry).

Simplify Topography component
Simplify Topography

Simplify Topography

Modifies a Topography Mesh by converting it to a Topography Surface using the Sampling Distance to determine the spacing of control points. Use in conjunction with Import 3D Context component.

Input: Topography Mesh (Mesh), and Sampling Distance (Number).

Output: Topography Srf (Surface), and Max Deviation (Number).

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Detailed Topography

Modifies the simplified Topography Surface to include a high-resolution topography relative to the Lot. The lot’s bounding box is used and rounded to the nearest 5m increment, plus the Buffer Distance. Use in conjunction with the Get Topography Properties component.

Input: Simplified Topography (Surface), Topography Mesh (Mesh), Lot (MetricMonkey Lots), and Buffer Distance (Number).

Output: Topography (MetricMonkey Topography).

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Site Setbacks

Generates site setback zones given the lot boundary and the front, side and rear setback values.

Input: Lot (MetricMonkey Lot).

Output: Setback Region (Geometry), Building Region(Geoemetry).

Utilities

Align Dimensions

Create Aligned Dimension

Creates an aligned dimension given two points.

Input: Start Point (point), End Point (Point), Offset (Number), Plane (Plane), and Style (Text).

Output: Dimension (Dimension).

Create Directional Light

Create Directional Light

Create or modifies a directional light in the scene.

Input: Light GUID (ID), Axis (Line), Colour (Colour), Intensity (Number), and Bake (Boolean).

Output: Light GUID (ID).

Create Point Light

Create Point Light

Create or modifies a point light in the scene.

Input: Light GUID (ID), Axis (Line), Colour (Colour), Intensity (Number), and Bake (Boolean).

Output: Light GUID (ID).

Create Hatch

Create Hatch

Creates a hatch. Use in conjunction with the Get Rhino Hatch Pattern component.

Input: Curves (Geometry), Hatch Name (Text), Angle (Number), Scale (Number), Colour (Colour), Layer Name (Text), Bake (Boolean).

Output: Boundaries (Geometry), Hatch (Geometry).

Create Layer

Create Layer

Creates a Rhino layer with attributes. If the layer already exists, attributes will be modified.

Input: Layer Name (Text), Display Colour (Colour), Linetype (Text), Material (Colour), Is Visible (Boolean), Plot Colour (Colour), Plot Weight (Number), Is Locked (Boolean), and Update (Boolean).

Output: Layer Name (Text), and Layer Index (Integer).

Curve Display

Curve Display Preview

Custom display preview of curves.

Input: Curve (Curve), Width (Number), Colour (Colour), and Dash (Text).

Output: N/A.

Dynamic Geometry Pipeline

Dynamic Geometry Pipeline

Dynamically reference Rhino geometry. Automatically live streams. Right-click to enable full-layer name and/or command update.

Input: Layer Name (Text), Geometry Type (Text), and Rhino Object Name (Text).

Output: Referenced Geometry (Geometry).

Get Grasshopper Document Info

Get Grasshopper Document Info

Gets the Grasshopper document information. Right-click to enable live stream.

Input: Update (Boolean).

Output: File Name (Text), Author (Text), Date Created (Text), Last Time Saved (Text), File Path (Text), Components (Data), Params (Data), Third Party Assemblies GHA (Data), and Third Party Assemblies GHUSER (Data).

Get Locations

Get Rhino Cities

Get Rhino’s default list of major city locations.

Input: N/A.

Output: Locations (Text).

Get Location Properties

Get Rhino City Properties

Deconstructs a Rhino city location into its constituent properties. Use in conjunction with the Get Locations component.

Input: Location (Text).

Output: Name (Text), Latitude (Number), Longitude (Number), and Time Zone (Number).

Get Display Modes

Get Rhino Display Modes

Gets a list of display modes in the current project.

Input: Update (Boolean).

Output: Active Display Mode (Text), and All Display Modes (Text).

Get Rhino Hatches

Get Rhino Hatch Patterns

Gets all hatch pattern names in the current Rhino document.

Input: Update (Boolean).

Output: Hatches (Text).

Get Layer Properties

Get Rhino Layer Properties

Gets a Rhino layer’s properties given its name. For nested layers use ParentLayer::NestedLayer. Right-click to enable live stream.

Input: Full Layer Name (Text).

Output: Index (Integer), Layer Name (Text), Colour (Colour), Linetype (Text), Material (Text), Is Visible (Boolean), Is Locked (Boolean), Is Deleted (Boolean), Plot Colour (Colour), and Plot Weight (Number).

Get Rhino Layers

Get Rhino Layers

Get a list of Rhino layers and their properties in the active document. Right-click to enable live stream.

Input: Update (Boolean).

Output: Layer Name (Text), Full Layer Name (Text), Colour (Colour), Linetype (Text), Material Name (Text), Is Visible (Boolean), Is Locked (Boolean), Plot Colour (Colour), Plot Weight (Number), and Is Active Layer (Boolean).

Select Rhino Objects

Get Rhino Objects

Gets selected objects from the current Rhino document. Right-click to enable live stream.

Input: Update (Boolean).

Output: Referenced Geometry (Geometry).

Get Rhino Units

Get Rhino Units

Get the units of the active Rhino document. Right-click to enable live stream.

Input: Update (Boolean), and Conversion Factor (Integer).

Output: Document Units (Text), Document Units Abbreviations (Text), Units Index (Integer), All Units (Text), Conversion Factor (Number).

Set Active Layer

Set Active Layer

Sets the active (current) layer in the Rhino document.

Input: Update (Boolean), and Layer Name (Text).

Output: Successful (Boolean), Previous Active Layer (Text).

Set Location

Set Location

Sets the project location based on a given latitude and longitude.

Input: Latitude (Number), and Longitude (Number).

Output: N/A.

Set Viewport

Set Viewport

Sets a viewport’s display mode and camera.

Input: Viewport Name (Text), Display Mode (Text), Camera Location (Point), Camera Target (Point), Camera Projection (Boolean), Camera Lens Length (Number), and Camera Up Vector (Vector).

Output: N/A.

Coordinate Reference System

Coordinate Reference System

Reads potential Coordinate Reference System (CRS) values from a category.

Input: Projection Category (Text), Is Geographic (Boolean).

Output: Coordinate Reference System (Text).

Read ESRI ASCII

Read ESRI ASCII

Reads data from ASCII files that have an ESRI format. The component does not do unit conversion.

Input: File Path (text), Interpolate Raster (Boolean), Read (Boolean).

Output: Geometry (Geometry), and Info (Text).

Read Excel

Read Excel

Reads data from an *xlsx file. File must be closed for component to work.

Input: Workbook Path (Text), Worksheet Name (Text), and Read (Boolean).

Output: Worksheet Data (Data).

Read GeoTIFF

Read GeoTIFF

Reads data from a *GeoTIFF file. Component does not do unit conversion.

Input: File Path (Text), and Read (Boolean).

Output: Geometry (Geometry), and Info (Text).

Read Shapefile

Read Shapefile

Reads data from a *shp file. Use in conjunction with the Coordinate Reference System (CRS) component.

Input: Path (Text), Coordinate Reference System (Text), and Read (Boolean).

Output: Geometry (Geometry), Keys (Text), and Values (Text).

Write Excel

Write Excel

Writes data to new or existing *xlsx file. Use dynamic UI to add and rename worksheets.

Input: Write (Boolean), Workbook Path (Text), and Sheet1 (Data).

Output: N/A

Bake With Attributes

Bake with Attributes

Bake geometry with attributes. Use in conjunction with the Create Object Attributes component.

Input: Geometry (Geometry), Attributes (Data), Cache (Text), and Bake (Boolean).

Output: N/A.

Create Object Attributes

Create Object Attributes

Creates object attributes. To be used in conjunction with Bake with Attributes component. Right-click to create a new layer if the layer name is not present in the current Rhino document.

Input: Name (Text), Layer Name (Text), Attribute Source (Integer), Display Colour (Colour), Material (Text), Linetype (Text), Group Indices (Integer), Plot Colour (Colour), Plot Weight (Number), Is Visible (Boolean), User Text Keys (Text), and User Text Values (Text).

Output: Attributes (Data).

Get Object Attributes

Gets the attributes from Rhino geometry. Right-click to enable live stream.

Input: Geometry (Geometry).

Output: Name (Text), Layer (Text), Layer Full Path (Text), Display Colour (Colour), Material (Text), Linetype (Text), Group Indices (Integer), Plot Colour (Colour), Line Weight (Number), Object Type (Text), Is Visible (Boolean), User Text Keys (Text), and User Text Values (Text).

Get User Text Attributes

Get User Text Attributes

Gets the user text attributes from Rhino geometry. Right-click to enable live stream.

Input: Geometry (Geometry).

Output: User Text Keys (Text), and User Text Values (Text).

Get User Text Values

Get User Text Values

Gets user text values from Rhino geometry. Right-click to enable live stream.

Input: Reference geometry (Geometry), User Text Keys (Text).

Output: User Text Values (Text).

Set Object Attributes

Set Object Attributes

Sets the object attributes of Rhino geometry. Use in conjunction with the Create Object Attributes component.

Input: Reference Geometry (Geometry), Attributes (Data), and Update (Boolean).

Output: N/A

Set User Text Attributes

Set User Text Attributes

Set user text attributes of Rhino geometry. Right-click to enable rewrite.

Input: Reference Geometry (Geometry), User Text Keys (Text), User Text Values (Text), and Update (Boolean).

Output: N/A

Misc

Convert Units

Convert Units

Converts a numeric value from one unit system to another. Right-click to define conversion function.

Input: Value (Number), From Unit System (Integer), To Unit System (Integer).

Output: Value (Number).

Lat-Long to UTM

Lat/Lon to UTM

Convert Latitude/Longitude to Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) projection.

Input: Latitude (Number), and Longitude (Number).

Output: Zone (Integer), Zone Designator (Text), Easting (Number), and Northing (Number).

Sun Position

Sun Position

Vector(s) indicating the direction of sunlight for each sun position on the sun path. Note that these vectors point downwards towards the ground.

Input: Latitude (Number), Longitude (Number), Time Zone (Number), North (Vector), From Month (Integer), To Month (Integer), From Day (Integer), To Day (Integer), From Hour (Integer), To Hour (Integer), Time Step (Integer).

Output: Positions (Point), Vectors (Vector), and Dates (Date/Time).

UTM to Lat-Long

UTM to Lat/Lon

Convert Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) projection to Latitude/Longitude.

Input: Zone (Integer), Zone Designator (Text), Easting (Number), and Northing (Number).

Output: Latitude (Number), and Longitude (Number).

Localisation

Sydney Sun Access Plane

Sydney SAP

Imports in the sun access planes as defined in Schedule 6A of the Sydney Local Environmental Plan 2012. Use in conjunction with the Sydney HOB component.

Input: N/A

Output: SAP Srf (Surface), SAP Name (Text), and SAP Volume (Brep).

Sydney Height of Building

Sydney HOB

Generates the Height of Building (HOB) volumes based on the Sydney Local Environmental Plan 2012.

Input: Topography Srf (Surface), HOB (MetricMonkey Dataset), and SAP Volume (Brep)

Output: HOB Volumes (MetricMonkey Dataset).

Copyright

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