Archicad <-> Grasshopper Live connection

Learn to extract horizontal level lines from a terrain mesh using cutting planes and Grasshopper, projecting curves to a ground plane, and adjusting line density for clear terrain visualization.

Build an intelligence system that places a road on existing terrain and reshapes the terrain to fit the road using a mesh, spine, and plane-aligned projections in Rhino and Grasshopper.

Archicad and Grasshopper guide you to build a road from offset curves, loft into a smooth surface with interpolated curves, and add thickness via a uv mesh.

Adapt the terrain to the road by creating a new road mesh from projected points, trimming boundaries, and lofting a surface with adjustable thickness, density, and smoothness.

Explore an algorithm that generates balcony instances on the facade with doors and railings, driven by facade curves and site curves to control balcony shapes.

Place balcony doors in grasshopper for Archicad using the door component driven by distance or by point, select walls, set insertion and orientation, and control positions with length and distance.

Learn to create a floor tiling grid by bounding the region with a polygon and bounding box, derive x and y domains, and place 600 mm tiles inside.

Apply tiling by using grasshopper's serve faces split to divide the boundary surface into fragments, based on curves. Adjust the tiling start point and tile size to control the pattern.

Connect dynamic pillars to the substructure by linking Grasshopper sliders to existing library parts, exposing GTL parameters, and ensuring pillars update in real time as you adjust height.

Trim beams from both ends with Grasshopper to prevent overlaps, using base width as the trim distance, adjust shifts by half, and optionally dispatch beams by direction before boundary creation.

Finish the boundary by using the A and B lists to create a boundary profile with an arc cut, then adjust offset and orientation for a correct 3D boundary.