Explorer Outputs
Names the results a design is judged by, for Explorer Record to save and the explorer to show as the axes to the right of the inputs.
🔧 Grasshopper component
`Out 1`, `Out 2`…ResultOne result per input: a number, or a text for a category.
An input takes the name of what is wired into it. Rename it to name the column, units included: Mass [t], Max displacement [mm]. The unit in brackets is shown under the axis.
📈 When to use it
Use it for the handful of numbers a design is chosen on: the total mass, the largest displacement, the highest Utilisation, the first period from the Modal Analysis Report.
Do not wire in whole result lists. An input given a list writes one column per item, Name_1, Name_2…, and keeps at most ten. Reduce a list to the value that matters first - Bounds, Mass Addition - then wire that in.
Note
An input with no value writes an empty cell, which the explorer shows as no data below the axis, rather than a number that would stretch it. Numbers are written with a decimal point whatever Rhino's language, so a study opens the same anywhere.
Explorer Outputs can also go into the Inputs of Explorer Record, to save a computed value as an input - useful when something other than Explorer Inputs drives the definition, such as Galapagos.