UI Overview

Adaptive Parts Environment (Ape) provides an easy-to-understand user interface to empower all our users no matter their Grasshopper experience to manipulate and parametrically customize their own adaptive block.

Toolbar

Settings

This button opens our Settings and Options tab where you can adjust your privacy and security settings.

Enable / Disable Dynamic Editing

This button enables or disables dynamic editing for your adaptive block in the current Rhino3D document.

Enable / Disable Solving

This button enables or disables the script solver, this can be useful for scripts that need a lot of computational power to compute changes.

Expand UI Elements

This button expands all the parameters in each category or minimizes them.

Highlight On / Off

This button turns the default object's highlight in Rhino3D on or off.

Select License Mode

This button shows your current subscription plan, by clicking on it you can open the license mode tab and change any of the license options.

Element

In this section, you'll see the block's name and number.

Block Parameters & Metadata

In this section you can start manipulating your adaptive block using the categories you already set visualized in well-organized tabs, each category will get a color in the UI, also the metadata of the adaptive block will be visible and updated after each change.

Options

Block Handling

If you enable the check box for "Update All", every copy of the adaptive block will be updated once you're changing any of the block parameters.

Show Plane

This button shows or hides the original plane of your adaptive block.

Origin

This cell shows the origin point's coordinates.

Scale Units

This shows the unit system for your adaptive part.

Ape Version

This cell shows the current version of the plugin.

Adaptive Profiles

Create Profile Section

This tool creates a profile section from a closed curve. After entering your selection, the pop-up tab gives you the opportunity to give it a name and define a plane.

Rename Profile Section

This tool renames any profile section you created.

Extrude Profile Section

This tool extrudes any profile section you created. After entering your selection, you can set the extrusion length directly, or select a point. Other options are to extrude both sides or reference the height and vector from a curve.

Start Edit Features Mode

This tool gives the user access to all the features that have been added to the profile and gives the user the opportunity to change any of them. 

Add Holes to Profile Extrusion

This tool adds one or multiple screw holes to your profile. After selecting the desired profile surface, a new menu pops up to help you customize your hole properties:

• Hole Type:
  1. Clearance Hole.
  2. Countersunk Hole.
  3. Stepped Hole.
• Through All.
• Depth.
• Diameter.
• Head Diameter.
• Bore Depth.

Enable or Disable Dynamic Editing

This tool gives the users the opportunity to dynamically edit and manipulate the profile planes.

Select Solids to subtract

This tool applies a solid subtraction from your adaptive profile.

Select Extrusion to Convert

This tool converts any extrusion to an adaptive profile.

Extract Profile

This tool extracts the profile's base closed curve.