#rhinoscript

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#modify objects inside blocks import rhinoscriptsyntax as rs def modify(block_objects): # here the objects inside the block get modified breps = [] for block_object in block_objects: if rs.IsBrep(block_object): breps.append(block_object) joined_surfaces= rs.JoinSurfaces(breps, delete_input=True) return (joined_surfaces) instances = rs.GetObjects ( message=None, filter=0, group=True, preselect=True, select=False, objects=None, minimum_count=1, maximum_count=0, custom_filter=None ) for instance in instances: block_name = rs.BlockInstanceName(instance) all_instances = rs.BlockInstances(block_name) block_point = rs.BlockInstanceInsertPoint(instance) newinstance = rs.CopyObject(instance) block_objects = rs.ExplodeBlockInstance (newinstance) all_instances_pt =[] for block_insance in all_instances: all_instances_pt.append(rs.BlockInstanceInsertPoint (block_insance)) rs.DeleteBlock(block_name) new_block_objects=[] # Stuff happens here: the modify function returns the new objects for blocks new_block_objects.append(modify(block_objects)) # End of stuff happening block_name = block_name+"newblock" rs.AddBlock(new_block_objects, block_point, name=block_name, delete_input=True) for instances_pt in all_instances_pt: rs.InsertBlock(block_name, instances_pt, scale=(1, 1, 1), angle_degrees=0, rotation_normal=(0, 0, 1))

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#rotate block by axis import rhinoscriptsyntax as rs blockinstances = rs.SelectedObjects() for blockinstance in blockinstances: xform = rs.BlockInstanceXform(blockinstance) plane = rs.WorldXYPlane() plane.Transform(xform) rs.RotateObject(blockinstance,plane.Origin,180,plane.ZAxis)

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#-RunPythonScript (K:\PythonScripts\SelectByLayer.py) import rhinoscriptsyntax as rs objs = rs.GetObjects ( message=None, filter=0, group=True, preselect=True, select=False, objects=None, minimum_count=1, maximum_count=0, custom_filter=None ) layer_list = [] for obj in objs: obj_layer = rs.ObjectLayer ( obj, layer=None ) layer_list.append(obj_layer) layer_list = set(layer_list) for layer_name in layer_list: rs.ObjectsByLayer (layer_name, select=True)

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#shuffles selected objects and divides them into n nr of groups import rhinoscriptsyntax from random import shuffle, randint x = rhinoscriptsyntax.GetObjects(message=None, filter=0, group=True, preselect=True, select=False, objects=None, minimum_count=1, maximum_count=0, custom_filter=None) shuffle(x) n = 3 num = float(len(x))/n l = [ x [i:i + int(num)] for i in range(0, (n-1)*int(num), int(num))] l.append(x[(n-1)*int(num):]) for i in range(0,n): randomnumber=randint(0,99999999999) name = rhinoscriptsyntax.AddGroup("NewGroup"+str(randomnumber)) rhinoscriptsyntax.AddObjectsToGroup(l[i],name)

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LaN DIRECTS GLOBAL WORKSHOPS ON DIGITAL DESIGN + FABRICATION IN ARCHITECTURE FOR ACADEMIC + CLIENT BASED PROJECTS.

barring a few experiments that will probably never see the light of day, i'm not a visual artist at all, but i found this and am sort of deathly excited about live architecture with OSC! :o

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