Robots¶

Robot Programming with Robots plugin WIKI steps by step guide Link

DOWNLOAD LINK FOR ROBOTS PLUGIN FOR GRASSHOPPER & ROBOTS LIBRARY

** Here is the guide to the installation from GitHub for Rhino 7: **

(Though we encourage to upgrade to Rhino 7, For the older version of Rhino:

Download Robots plugin
Copy the .gha and .dll into the special folder. Make sure it is ‘Unblocked’ (Right Click on the .gha file and click on unblock button in the attributes section) Place BOTH files in your ‘Components Folder’. (Components folder can be found via grasshopper: File -> Special Folders -> Components Folders)
Download the folder named Robots inside the Robot libraries.rar (contains the ABBs robots at IAAC in a.3dm file) and place it inside the OS’s Documents folder:

In Windows the path will look like C:\Users\userName\Documents\Robots\RobotLibrary.xml. In Mac the path will look like HD/Users/userName/Robots/RobotLibrary.xml.

Open Rhino > Open Grasshopper > drag and drop the ‘robot system’ component from the plugin to verify the installation.

You can find here the files required for the installation

For instructions on installing Grasshopper Add-Ons, please see:

Grasshopper Class Script ROBOTS

Grasshopper Basic Script ROBOTS

Grasshopper Advanced Script ROBOTS

Grasshopper Full Script ROBOTS

MDEF Task¶

Task

Design and program a grasshopper script and simulate it on the computer.