Hallo,

I´m not doing visual Effects. I´m a sculptor and using mainly Rhino together with Grasshopper. So: My purposes are lesser visualisation and
much more production of concrete sculptural objects.

Since about 5 month I´m studiously training Houdini (apprentice).
I assume that it can enrich my form finding process a lot!
Of course I know that Houdini is no CAD software like Rhino. It´s
not made for PRODUKTION.

To keep things short: I rely on some kind of communication or
data-exchange mainly from Houdini to Grasshopper.
I don´t think that it is necessary to export very complex geometries from Houdini to grasshopper. I´m shure some Particles, some Points, some Normals, some Attributes should be enough information to keep on working in grasshopper.
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!BUT I HAVE REALLY NO IDEA HOW TO DO THAT!
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Would be nice If somebody could help me!

Greetings: Nils



PS: there is an interesting topic at the forum that deals a bit with that topic. it s called “”Is there any architects here"
http://www.sidefx.com/index.php?option=com_forum&Itemid=172&page=viewtopic&t=15880&start=0&postdays=0&postorder=asc&highlight=architects [sidefx.com]

What about exporting your geometry into one of the formats rhino can import?

RMB on any node to save the geometry as … obj
Or use the FBX ROP, though I'm not sure if this working in Apprentice.

thanks for quick answering!

yes it´s possible to export via “save geometry” !
FBX ROP isn´t available in Apprentice!

the problem with “save gometry” is that it seems to save only "pure geometry!
For working Grasshopper it´s VERY usefull to have informations like numbers and position of primitives, vertices, points and particles.

there is a possibility in grasshopper to grab information from excel-spreadsheeds.
As far as I can evaluate Houdini from my beginners point of view,
Houdini gives you a great ability to acces ALL KIND of data.
If I could write specific data out into an excel spredsheed it might be a way
to solve my problem!

Greetings

As much as I'd love a ExcelROP - there's none public available.

Have a look into chan files.
There pretty close to CSV.

Or you write a pythonSOP to export the necessary data.

http://forums.odforce.net/index.php?/topic/12583-how-to-export-data-from-houdini-to-grasshopper-or-excel [forums.odforce.net]

Just saw this discussion.
I have written a python sop to write attributes to file
It is here - http://files.patrick.janssen.name/2011a/phtj_utils.otl [files.patrick.janssen.name]

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