Setup

Rhino & Grasshopper


Grasshopper is a development platform that is bundled with Rhino computer-aided design application. Follow this link to download Rhino:
https://www.rhino3d.com/download/
 

 

MatrixFrame Grasshopper plugin
 

The default installation and update

MatrixFrame Grasshopper package is provided together with MatrixFrame installation. The default location is:

 

C:\ProgramData\Matrix\MatrixFrame\6.0\Grasshopper\

 

It contains two files: MxFGrasshopper.gha and MxF{version-number}Connector.dll.

 

Move these two files into this folder (which is a shortcut for C:\Users\admin\AppData\Roaming\Grasshopper\Libraries):

 

%appdata%\Grasshopper\Libraries\

 

If you wish, in addition, you can create a folder (for example, MxFGrasshopper600) and place these files inside of it. The correctly placed files:

MxFGrasshopper package destination

 

The MatrixFrame Grasshopper plugin has been successfully installed. If you wish to update it in the future, please close Rhino and replace the aforementioned two plugin files with the new ones.

 

Alternative installation and update

Alternatively, you can install MxFGrasshopper by using the ZIP archive that we may send to you by an official e-mail.

 

After downloading the ZIP archive, it will probably be blocked for Microsoft Windows security purposes. Right click on the downloaded ZIP archive and click Properties at the bottom of the menu:

 

Properties of the downloaded ZIP archive

 

If you see the Unblock checkbox, just click on it and press OK:
 

Unblocking MxFGrasshopper ZIP package

 

If you don’t see the Unblock checkbox, it means the archive hasn’t been blocked and thus the unblocking isn’t needed.

 

Extract the ZIP archive. It contains the same two files.