One of ShapeDiver’s goals is to offer tools that empower computational designers to create online applications based on their Grasshopper files. We believe that by sharing access to these design tools, companies can automate multiple different processes such as production, design, sales, manufacturing, etc.

Until now, we have offered our clients two main ways to integrate their online applications on their websites: iframe and direct embedding. Our iframes offer a convenient and easy way to embed a ShapeDiver model, including a basic UI, on any website, but they lack some flexibility when creating more refined UIs. Direct embedding gives full flexibility to create any UI but requires users to deal with our APIs, which limits its adoption as many computational designers do not have web development expertise.

App Builder aims to democratize many of our API features by making them available and programmable via Grasshopper. This means that computational designers can now easily define more advanced and contextual UIs for their online applications by just using components from our Grasshopper plugin.

Join us on Tuesday, July 9th, during this live webinar in collaboration with Food4Rhino to learn firsthand how this new feature works and what exciting plans we have for it!

Webinar Overview:

Date: Tuesday, July 9th, 2024

Time: 8am Pacific, 11am Easterm, 5pm CEST

Duration: 1 hour

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Agenda:

1. Introduction and goals

We will start by providing an overview of the App Builder feature, including some background, and then taking a first look at examples of Apps built with this new feature.

2. New Grasshopper Components

We introduce the new components we added to our Grasshopper plugin that make App Builder possible. We will build a complete web application in real time, including parametric images, charts, and custom logic.

3. App Builder on ShapeDiver

We will then break down the process of uploading and interacting with the App from the ShapeDiver platform.

4. Embedding App Builder models

We will finally explain how to embed an App Builder model on an external website and which plans are suitable for this.

5. Next steps

We have many plans to improve the App Builder in the near future! We will use the last segment of the webinar to discuss our plans and welcome feedback from the audience on where we should be taking this new feature further.

6. Q&A

During this section, you’ll be able to ask our team any questions related to App Builder.

Meet Your Hosts:

Mathieu Huard

Mathieu is the Head of Product, as well as one of the founders of ShapeDiver. He focuses on expanding the ShapeDiver product to cater to various industries leveraging parametric design in their workflows. In the context of the AEC industry, he helped push the collaboration and interoperability functionalities of ShapeDiver, such as bridging the online platform with various design software suites, including Autodesk Forma.

He holds a Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics. Before founding ShapeDiver, he spent several years with the Vienna-based company Evolute, developing software and consulting for architects and engineering firms, all along gaining experience with building tools for Rhino and Grasshopper.

Edwin Hernández

Edwin Hernandez is Head of Projects and Senior Computational Designer at ShapeDiver. He studied Architecture at Andes University in Bogotá, Colombia, and Computer Animation at the SAE Institute in Melbourne, Australia.

While he was still studying, he began working as a "solopreneur" with clients in Australia and New Zealand. These clients provided projects that allowed him to gain experience in using BIM software, parametric design, and web coding. His experience enabled him to join the ShapeDiver team in Vienna, Austria in 2017. He has been responsible for managing multiple projects across more than 15 different industries. During this time, he has learned how to create highly optimized and complex parametric models using C#, custom plugins for Grasshopper, and cloud applications based on Grasshopper.