Creating A Smart Sketch Tool With Grasshopper

Create a tool for doing quick and intuitive floor plan design explorations while getting real-time analytic feedback of your program areas.

What you'll learn
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On this course, you´ll learn how to create a tool in Grasshopper that will allow you to design and explore quickly and intuitively floorplan layouts while getting real-time data from your program areas.
Once this tool is properly referenced and set up, you don´t need to operate it on the Grasshopper environment so it becomes an asset you can share with colleagues who have no experience with parametric modeling.
We cover lots of useful tricks like how to intuitively create room separations with open curves, add and remove architectural programs on the spot and export critical information to inform your designs.Take Aways:Learn how to reference geometry into Grasshopper using the Human Plugin
Read in real time information from your Rhino Model
Display and bake geometries with color
Export data from Grasshopper to Excel Spreadsheets

Overview

Lecture 1 Referencing and setting up layers

Lecture 2 Creating surfaces and displaying area information

Lecture 3 Sorting & Displaying skecth curves by level

Lecture 4 Tracking and displaying areas interactively

Lecture 5 Exporting program areas to Excel and baking surfaces with color information

Lecture 6 Creating walls and basic volumes from skecth layouts