So I’m finally back with all the scripting and coding stuff and I took a deeeeep dive into Butterfly and I’ve made Butterfly semi-work in the good year of…2025. With Rhino 8.
So what I want to ask this forum is:
Is there a possibility I can take over the development of Butterfly for Rhino 8?
Is there a possibility I can share my workflow that I have developed from looking through my colleagues’ work?
Caution regarding the second: it requires a bit of knowledge to run things in OpenFOAM shell instead of running everything within GH as we have all been used to, etc. But it is very easy. I just want to know if there is a possibility of developing stuff with this forum.
You should always feel free to send pull requests to the Butterfly repositories. What did it take to make Butterfly work on Rhino 8? I suspect the bigger part of the effort is to update Butterfly to work with the latest version of OpenFOAM.
I used the old components and 2017, but basically only used the earlier components to set up the entire model for meshing etc.
Then I ran everything from snappyHexMesh etc in the console for OpenFOAM.
Hi!
I’d like to share that we’ve recently developed a Grasshopper plugin called Carbonfly for CFD simulations of Indoor Air Quality (CO2 simulation).
You can find it on GitHub or Food4Rhino.
Cheers
It works on Windows (with WSL in background), or you mean pure Windows e.g. with BlueCFD-Core?
The reason for using WSL is to serve as a bridge for learning native OpenFOAM, as advanced applications later on will undoubtedly be more convenient when using native OpenFOAM in WSL or pure Linux directly. For example, BlueCFD-Core only provides a limited choice of OpenFOAM versions.
BlueCFD-Core also requires separate installation. Personally, I find its effort comparable to installing WSL (a detailed installation guide is provided ).
