POLYMITA 1.0
Grasshopper plug-in for Rhino 8 on Windows

Author:   Bruno García Sosa
Web:      https://www.food4rhino.com/en/app/polymita
Support:  comments on the food4rhino page, or brunogarciasosa@gmail.com
Licence:  free for any use, commercial included (see LICENSE.txt)


WHAT IT IS
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Your favourite components, one wire away. Drop a wire on empty canvas, or tap
Shift twice, and a palette of your favourite components, saved recipes and groups
of components opens right there; click one and it comes in already connected.
Polymita also brings snapping guides, wire cutting, clean orthogonal and adaptive
wires, a colours and gradients manager, component labels, a Draw Full Names that
keeps the layout tidy, and Rhino's viewport, command line and object snaps inside
the Grasshopper window.


INSTALLING
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The easiest way is Rhino's Package Manager: run _PackageManager in Rhino 8, search
for "Polymita", click Install and restart Rhino.

From this download:

  1. Close Rhino.
  2. Windows blocks plug-ins downloaded from the internet. Right-click
     Polymita.gha > Properties > tick "Unblock" > OK.
  3. Copy the whole folder into Grasshopper's Libraries folder:
        %APPDATA%\Grasshopper\Libraries
     (in Grasshopper: File > Special Folders > Components Folder).
  4. Start Rhino and open Grasshopper. A "Polymita" menu and seven toolbar icons
     appear. Polymita > About / Help shows the version.

Keep only one copy of Polymita installed: either the Package Manager's or the one
in Libraries, not both.

Uninstalling: delete the folder from Libraries (or uninstall it in the Package
Manager). Your library and settings stay in %APPDATA%\Grasshopper\Polymita.


NEW IN 1.0
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First public release.

  - Connected wires win the snap at any zoom and weigh three times the edges;
    every wire of the component you drag counts, input or output.
  - Alt+W connects the selection top to bottom, and Merge-like components end
    with exactly one input per wire. Inputs holding internalised data are left
    alone.
  - Double-tap shortcuts: Shift+Shift opens the favourites, and any command can
    take Shift, Ctrl or Alt tapped twice.
  - Drag colours and gradients to reorder them.
  - The recipe mark only on components with settings of their own.
  - Commands typed in the viewport's command line run cleanly.
  - A ready-made library of favourites, colours and 20 gradients to start from.
  - Works on any Rhino 8 for Windows.


FILES
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  Polymita.gha               the plug-in (a single file)
  README.txt                 this file
  USER-GUIDE.md              how to use every tool
  LICENSE.txt                Polymita's licence
  THIRD-PARTY-NOTICES.txt    credits and the licences of the components it
                             includes (Harmony, ColorBrewer, McNeel's example,
                             WiresRenderer)


Rhinoceros, Rhino and Grasshopper are trademarks of Robert McNeel & Associates.
Polymita is an independent product, not made or endorsed by McNeel.
© 2026 Bruno García Sosa.
