Practice Grasshopper keyboard shortcuts

Drill all 112 until you don't have to think about them.

wire up the parametric canvas

Grasshopper has almost no drawing shortcuts — you add components by double-clicking the canvas to open a search box, then typing the component name and pressing Enter to place it. Those moves drill here as typed commands (the search box is the faux prompt). The genuine keyboard chords cover canvas, preview, and organization. Skipped by design: preview toggle (mac default is Cmd+backtick, which the OS swallows), Ctrl+Tab document cycling (the browser swallows it), Ctrl+W close (browser-reserved), and enable/disable — Grasshopper ships no default keyboard shortcut for it.

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The progression

Every deck is graded 1 to 6: level 1 is the reflex core, the top level is where the specialists live. One move from each, so you can see how far it goes.

1. Level 111 moves

   Open the component search box on the canvas

   Space

   the canvas search box is how every component gets placed — the core loop

   …and 10 more at this level

2. Level 220 moves

   Draw a circle from a plane and radius

   Circle

   a circle from a plane and radius — a core curve primitive

   …and 19 more at this level

3. Level 326 moves

   Scale geometry uniformly about a center

   Scale

   scale geometry uniformly about a center point

   …and 25 more at this level

4. Level 441 moves

   Reshape a range of values through an editable curve

   Graph Mapper

   the visual dial for driving a parameter through a custom easing curve

   …and 40 more at this level

5. Level 511 moves

   Strip redundant nesting out of a tree's paths

   Simplify Tree

   strip redundant path nesting

   …and 10 more at this level

6. Level 63 moves

   Split a tree's branches into separate outputs

   Explode Tree

   fan each branch out to its own output

   …and 2 more at this level