Welcome to the ACM blog!  We’ll be using this blog to highlight the work of the Advanced Computational Modeling Department here at Thornton Tomasetti.
 
We thought that the best way to get our blog off the ground would be to give away some software as a welcome present.  So here you go! 

We are pleased to release the first version of ghExcel, a plug-in for Grasshopper that allows for interoperability between Grasshopper and Microsoft Excel.  The plugin contains two components: one for writing Grasshopper data to Excel files, and one for reading data from Excel files into Grasshopper. 

A sample Grasshopper file and plug-in documentation are included in the .zip file.  To install the tools, download and extract the contents of the .zip file to your local hard drive, then copy the folder named ‘ghExcel_Libraries’ to your Grasshopper components folder ( C:\Users\<userName>\AppData\Roaming\Grasshopper\Libraries in Windows 7 ).  A ‘TT’ tab and an ‘Excel’ section should show up in Grasshopper after a restart of Rhino.  Enjoy!

Please email us if you're interested in trying out the tool.