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Getting started

Install Morphé, activate your licence and build your first implicit: a box with a smooth spherical cut, previewed live and meshed.

Requirements

Rhino Rhino 8 for Windows
Grasshopper Included with Rhino 8
Graphics [TODO: minimum GPU for the Preview Field 3D window]
Licence A Morphé licence key. Each activated computer uses one seat.

Install

01

Download Morphé

[TODO: install route, for example the Rhino Package Manager or an installer from morphe-design.app, with the exact steps.]

02

Restart Rhino and open Grasshopper

A Morphe tab appears in the ribbon with six panels, in reading order:

1. Field2. Implicit3. Scalar Volume4. Vector Volume5. Remesh6. Types

Activate your licence

The activation window opens the first time you place a Morphé component. You can open it at any time from the Morphé menu in Grasshopper: Morphé › Activate / Manage Licence…

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Enter your licence key to activate this computer.
Working offline

Once activated, Morphé keeps working without an internet connection for up to 14 days. Connect again before then to renew. To move a seat to another computer, deactivate it here first. More in Licensing.

Your first implicit

Every input below has a sensible default, so you can wire these five components together without typing a value. With the defaults you get a 10 × 10 × 10 box with a spherical bite taken out of one corner.

SphereC 0,0,0 · R 5BoxM- 0,0,0 · M+ 10,10,10DifferenceI1 Box · I2 SpherePreview Field 3Dlive GPU windowMesh From ImplicitMF 1
01

Place a Sphere and a Box

Both are in 2. Implicit. Each outputs an implicit: a shape defined by a distance field rather than a surface.

02

Subtract with Difference

Wire the box into I1 and the sphere into I2. To fillet the cut edge, wire a number into Radius. The radius is a field, so it can also vary across space.

03

Preview with Preview Field 3D

Opens a live, GPU-rendered window that updates as you drag any slider upstream. Nothing is meshed yet.

04

Mesh with Mesh From Implicit

Set MinFeatureSize to the smallest detail you need to keep. Smaller values resolve finer detail and take longer. Bake the mesh to Rhino or keep working with it in Grasshopper.

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Your first definition: box minus sphere, with a 1 mm fillet.

Four data types

Morphé components pass four kinds of data. Wires and parameters take their colour from the type.

FieldA value at every point in space, with no bounds. The raw material for expressions, gradings and lattices.ImplicitA field with a bounding box. The bounds make previewing, contouring and meshing possible.Scalar VolumeValues sampled on a voxel grid. Used for smoothing, filleting and measured or scanned data.Vector VolumeA vector at every voxel. Used for flow fields, gradients and advection.

Next steps

Core conceptsHow fields, implicits and volumes relate, and when to switch between them.LatticesConform a gyroid to a surface in a few components.Meshing and exportTurn implicits and volumes into clean meshes for Rhino, print or simulation.
Written for Morphé 1.0 · Rhino 8