1. Prepare your SketchUp model for importation into Rhinoceros. Ensure that double faces and redundant geometry are removed and that unused geometry and components in the model are purged (Window > Model Info > Statistics: purge). Ensure that components are grouped appropriately (consider components that will be static and components that might be parametric). Import your SketchUp file into Grasshopper. Experiment with the import settings to ensure your model imports appropriately (e.g. you may or may not want to weld geometry).
I encountered a number of problems delivering my model from sketch up into rhino. Firstly was my actual file had a lot of missing edges and faces which needed to be fixed. Because a lot of the shapes were generic within my model, I found it easy to fix this by quickly re sketching the shapes from scratch. This was a little more time consuming then I thought but enabled me to export successfully into rhino.
I found this tutorial helpful in exporting my design:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7jNPfP_9mI
Because I have been having trouble exporting my sketchup model, I did a practise 'Mock' export instead.
My Practise Model in Sketch up before export:
After Export in Rhino
I am not sure weither or not the solid is suppose to look like this...
2 Select 1 of your storyboards to develop in Rhinoceros and Grasshopper. Describe the key idea of the proposed architectural response in approximately 50 words. Post this description to your blog before next week’s studio class.
One of the storyboards I wish to develop in rhino and grasshopper is the light shielding motion sensing device (storey board 1).
I would need a series of points which are the base of a particular shape. The shape can be poly or circular changing the radius and number of sides using a number slider. I will also have an attractor method that uses an input (number slider or other) which will reflect that of the motion of an user (I will do something similar to the sphere and point method in last weeks tutorial task to achieve this). The points will reflect the position of the user and so will effectively shift and manipulate the outline or radius, position and number of sides of the exterior shielding shapes. I will condition the code so that the shapes become more dense whilst directly over the user and more sprawled to allow light to filter through into the facility.
3 Program the basic functionality and create a mock-up of your selected storyboard by incorporating parts of your Rhinoceros model. Complete your mock-up proposal before next week’s studio class.
Grasshopper File
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/e9k3eks5ukm03j5/b9kvOUkz1Q
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