DevHops

DevHops is a workflow and toolkit for organizing Rhino Grasshopper scripts with Hops and Kanban boards.

This tool was created as a part of the AEC Tech 2022 Hackathon

Introduction

Managing Rhino Grasshopper scripts and workflows when working on complex, multi-year architectural projects is difficult, due to the size and complexity of Grasshopper definitions and procedural challenges when multiple computational designers work on the on the same script in parallel.

This project addresses this issue by proposing a workflow where Grasshopper scripts are organized into multiple Hops components which are connected to a Kanban board for tracking project progression through work items.

Content

Content	App	Requirements
DevOpsApp	NextJS 13	NodeJS 16 and npm
DevOpsBackEnd	NetCore 6	Visual Studio 2022 and Microsoft SQL Server Express
DevHopsGh	Rhino 7 Grasshopper Plugin	Visual Studio 2022 and Grasshopper template
DevHopsGhSamples	Rhino Grasshopper Samples	Rhino 7 Grasshopper

Getting Started

Grasshopper Plugin (DevHopsGh)

1. Copy the .dll and .gha files from C\DevHops\DevHopsGh\Plugin folder into your Rhino Grasshopper Components folder.
2. Open in Visual Studio 2022 and build.

Backend (DevOpsBackEnd)

1. Open in Visual Studio 2022 and run in debug mode to deploy the back-end.
2. The backend will be running to localhost:5296.
3. OpenAPI documentation is available on http://localhost:5296/swagger

Frontend DevOpsApp

1. Run the NextJS webapp with npm run start
2. The app is hosted on localhost:3000.

Attributions

• Image: "Hand drawn psychedelic groovy background" by Freepik

Contributors

• mkosicki
• jkamm
• just-ajs
• andersrod
• cdriesler