Ben, If you want to get data from somewhere into grasshopper in an ordered fashion, then its going to involve some sort of script. What you currently have in your sticky pad is just a string, or a bunch of characters all together. What you're looking for is an actual list of numbers so that they can be read within grasshopper. I don't really think that the data changing has much bearing on the approach here, simply because the amount of initial data itself warrants some sort of automation. Not wanting to have Excel open is fine, but that puts you into a situation where a CSV (Comma Separated Values) file is going to be a better bet. Those you can output from Excel, and there's a thread relating to parsing CSV files at the link below.
http://groups.google.com/group/grasshopper3d/browse_thread/thread/9130a24d75bb02b4# HTH, Damien On Mar 13, 8:15 am, Ben Higham <[email protected]> wrote: > This is most probably going to such a noobish question but I've been > struggling and just cant work it out. > > I have a 332 figures, in an excel spreadsheet, that I want to input > into grasshopper to create a list of all of them. > I've read the discussions about 'reading and writing to excel' but > because I don't want to have excel open and cells highlighted. The > figures aren't going to change in the future. Plus I need to input > another set of figures from excel later so would have issues > highlighting the cells I needed for each time (I think). > > I have been simply trying to copy and paste the cells from excel into > a panel. But I get the following error: > > "An exception was thrown during a solution: > A number of tokens could not be evaluated:" > > I've included the .ghx that is producing the error, in the likelihood > that none of the above made > sense.http://groups.google.co.uk/group/grasshopper3d/web/data%20entry%20iss... > > Regards > Ben
