Hornbill

Script Language Javascript Provider for Rhino3d

Requirements

• Rhino 7
• Installed Hornbill in Rhino 7 PackageManager
• node.js >= 12
• yarn >= 1.22.0
• code editor like VS Code for scripting

Usage

Step1

• Open Rhino 7
• Typing PackageManager command
• Searching for Hornbill and install
• Restart Rhino 7
• Keep Rhino window open
• You are good to go

Step2

• Create a empty folder for store your work.

mkdir hornbill-test && cd hornbill-test

• Initialing this folder as a javascript module.

yarn init -y

• Add a magic library for making things work.

yarn add @hornbill/cli -D

Alternatively, your can install @hornbill/cli in global scope, thus hornbill command is available any where in your computer.

yarn global add @hornbill/cli

• Create a script file named index.js, so far your folder is something like:

 hornbill-test/
 ├── node_modules/
 │   └── ...
 ├── index.js
 ├── package.json
 └── yarn.lock

• Finally, we can write some code in index.js.

import { RhinoApp } from "Rhino";

RhinoApp.WriteLine("Hello from Javascript");

• And, we can simply run this script by yarn hornbill run index.js command.
• Now, checkout you rhino command line, you can see Hello from Javascript in it.