Doing parametric design in a browser... FOR FREE! - Beegraphy BETA tutorial

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00:00 Intro
02:02 Disclaimer
03:19 Parametric Vase Tutorial
39:20 3D printing
42:00 Publish feature
45:00 Embed feature
47:46 Collaboration feature!

[@DesignGoBrr]

discord.gg/JaKg282Kp3 - Beegraphy discord. This is where you complain/report bugs

[@LernikMir]

Thanks, Gediminas! We will be solving the bugs you encountered in this video very soon :)

[@DesignGoBrr]

Excited to see where this will go!

[@ShapeDiver]

Great new tool for computational designers!

[@DesignGoBrr]

The comp design space is getting a bit more active isn't it? Always a good thing in my opinion!

[@armanrashoyan]

15:17 you are disconnecting wires same ways as in Grasshopper, i.e. by holding command/control button and dragging the wire all the way from one port to another. In BeeGraphy you can do that easier by holding command/control and just clicking on the port you want to disconnect.

[@DesignGoBrr]

Muscle memory is hard to overwrite haha. Thanks for the tip though!

[@annatorosyan2511]

I understand and appreciate your suggestion. However, for optimal performance, it would be useful to specify which particular connection should be disconnected. Because if they are many, everything will be disconnected at the same time.

[@LernikMir]

Gediminas, remember the bug you encountered when lofting? We fixed it now. You can test again

[@DesignGoBrr]

Guys are moving fast.

[@FastyFx]

The embed feature is pretty awesome. I think that has introduced something dynamo, grasshopper, etc couldn't. This allows for people to interact with your custom script which in my opinion is a super cool concept. Would be very interesting to be able to create variations of a parametric building or something like this on a website.

[@DesignGoBrr]

Yup I think so too. Really hope this will shake things up, as the development of node based editors seems to have stagnated in the past few years.

[@1Chitus]

Great new tool!

[@hk_sleepy]

It's a good day when Gediminas uploads :)

[@DesignGoBrr]

For me too. I get to have a mini one day vacation. Go outside. Touch grass.

[@grigorpaloyan5566]

7:33 when you clicked zoom-to-fit you didn’t have the Construct Point node selected. That’s why it didn’t work for you

[@DesignGoBrr]

Ahh, my bad - I thought it's "fit all present geometry" button rather than "fit selected"

[@alessandroconte2813]

very helpful thankyou so much!

[@DesignGoBrr]

You're welcome!

[@greennipplesmellowcorp]

I like your attention to open development. I am a grasshopper user and consider it "the language" of computational design. I am concerened that all these different development environments make adoption and learning a barrier to young designers.

[@DesignGoBrr]

Open development/open source is super important IMO. Sharing of ideas is the biggest factor to progress.

[@crazy-_-banana]

You couldn’t find the ‘negative’ node because in BeeGraphy it is called ‘opposite’. If you type 'negative' you can still find it, but you need to scroll it a bit. Smart of you to find your way out though :smile: When you decided to use the ‘multiplication’ you could use another trick: call it by typing ‘*-1’ and clicking Enter in the search bar. It would bring you the multiplication where the second value would be ‘-1’. That also works for addition, subtraction and division.

[@DesignGoBrr]

All good tips. These convenience things will become quite important once the tools is stable and has sufficient functionality!

[@dapa6168]

Ctrl+C / Ctrl+V doesnt work for me in firefox (all scripts allowed)? In Chrome, everything's working fine. Anyone else experiencing this?

[@DesignGoBrr]

Report it!

[@LernikMir]

Thanks for letting us know. We've fixed it in the development version. Planning to deploy it in September

[@LernikMir]

Happy to advise that the bug is fixed :)

[@Parametricmodeling]

Fantastic tool! Thanks for kindful and informative upload! :)

[@DesignGoBrr]

My pleasure!

[@Arman..Karapetyan]

You were hiding nodes one by one. Were you doing it intentionally? Because it’s actually possible to select multiple nodes and hide them all together. And btw it’s also possible to call the node menu by right-clicking on the node instead of clicking on the 3 points in the top right corner. It’s easier :)

[@DesignGoBrr]

I plan my next steps while hiding things, so that was intentional in this case. Didn't know about right-clicking on the node though, thanks for the tip!

[@wallfacerdesign1082]

Maybe I missed it; is there the ability to import GH definitions?

[@LernikMir]

not yet, but indeed something very important to work on

[@TusharNagananda]

THIS IS SICK

[@iamywyh2323]

why

[@DesignGoBrr]

It really is!

[@crazy-_-banana]

@@iamywyh2323 because it caught cold :)

[@johanhegge6845]

only 3 competitors ? what about CREO , dassault, Fusion, etc (even Blender) ?

[@DesignGoBrr]

neither one has a node-based scripting system except for blender's geometry nodes (but since blender is not CAD, using it for manufacturing is not ideal). So yes - 3 competitors. Now it's 2 actually since Dynamo has been on a steady decline.

[@lorenzomorigi9025]

Hi Gediminas, how did you get the dark mode? Very interesting beta tho

[@LernikMir]

the light or dark mode matches your system settings

[@DesignGoBrr]

Had to change my windows mode to take the screenshot for the thumbnail

[@lorenzomorigi9025]

Thanks!

[@Vanastarr]

Why aren't you considering Blender Geometry nodes in there? It is not a minor player anymore already.

[@DesignGoBrr]

This is true, but just as with Unreal Engine 5 Blueprint system/PCG - there are a few fundamental functionalities that are missing for it to bridge the gap between "used for the virtual" and "used for production". I'll take a couple of major updates to get there, but I'm sure it'll be a big player in the future.

[@Vanastarr]

@@DesignGoBrr Which functionalities are they?

[@chrisS-cd6un]

Is this somehow using Blender under the hood? Because the controls in the 3D viewer look a lot like Blender...

[@DesignGoBrr]

Every 3D viewer is the same. Don't think this has anything to do with blender - but since I'm not the one who made it - this might be wrong info~

[@LernikMir]

Hi Chris! No, we are not using Blender at all

[@chrisS-cd6un]

@@DesignGoBrr This is true to some extend (well, they are similar in many cases, never the same ;-)), but the coordinate cross with the circles and the letters in it as well as the look of the other navigation icons is quite unique in blender and looks very similar here. And since Blender is open source and recent developments even aimed at creation of custom applications with it, it seemed plausible...

[@chrisS-cd6un]

@@LernikMir Thx for the info.

[@nirbeitav]

can you import a surface into beegraphy?

[@DesignGoBrr]

Not yet

[@LernikMir]

you may expect it within 1-2 months

[@vytasrauckis6703]

Are you in Lietuva?

[@DesignGoBrr]

Between Sweden, Lietuva and Japan.

[@financialchimes4546]

Wow, the fees for the marketplace are atrocious. A minimum fee of 50 USD just to get your profits wired to you. I sell on other marketplaces and they just have a 3% + $0.3 payment processing fee. Furthermore these other marketplaces don't have a minimum limit for wiring the profits to a seller.

[@DesignGoBrr]

My hope is that the fees will be adjusted for the official stable release and then callibrated according to the usage statistics. If you have any imput - make sure to drop a line for the developers to see either via email or their discord server (link in the pinned comment)

[@LernikMir]

Thanks for raising this concern. The fees are there just to cover the costs, and not to make us rich. We will find a way to adjust the fees to make them in line with other marketplaces

[@SilasDrewchin]

You forgot to mention Blender geometry nodes. (Bonus: it's free)

[@DesignGoBrr]

Still needs a few iterations of development to be "manufacturing-ready", currently it's great for visuals/effects as well as simple simulations.

[@SilasDrewchin]

@@DesignGoBrr definitely true it's not manufacturing ready. Generating manifold closed meshs isn't its focus but it is possible. Still, I think geometry nodes has a lot of potential. Thanks for sharing beegraphy I'm going to check it out!

[@DesignGoBrr]

@@SilasDrewchin Oh yea, geo nodes definitely has so much potential!

[@rajendrameena150]

There is fourth competitor emerging- Geometry nodes of blender

[@DesignGoBrr]

This is true, but just as with Unreal Engine 5 Blueprint system/PCG - there are a few fundamental functionalities that are missing for it to bridge the gap between "used for the virtual" and "used for production". I'll take a couple of major updates to get there, but I'm sure it'll be a big player in the future.

[@rajendrameena150]

@@DesignGoBrr This is actually a gap between NURBS modelling and Polygon modelling and it will be there for major workflows.

[@othoapproto9603]

blender Geo Nodes

[@DesignGoBrr]

Still needs a few iterations of development to be "manufacturing-ready", currently it's great for visuals/effects as well as simple simulations.

[@Keep-Making]

Ooooo this does look intresting. With that said what about Blender Geometry Nodes?... Also... If your intrested I'm up for a collab of some sort so feel free to send me an email 🤓

[@DesignGoBrr]

Cool, will do. In a month or so :)