Download & Install Robots for Grasshopper
Instructions on how to download & install the Robots plugin for Grasshopper
Robots is the plugin the MSD Robotics Lab uses to program some robotic fabrication processes such as Plastic and Ceramic 3D Printing.
To use our scripts we recommend you have Rhino 7 installed on Windows. If you don't have Rhino 7 you can download a 90 day trial from:
You can technically use Rhino for Mac, however we strongly recommend using it on Windows. It is likely that some of the plugins we use in the scripts that will be provided to you won't run on mac. Additionally, ABB RobotStudio does not run on Mac. Unfortunately we are unable to support Mac versions of the plugins and our scripts at this time.
Download Robots from Github
Download the latest Robots plugin for Grasshopper. Select the Robots.zip in the latest release (9.0 as of 26/07/2021). You do not need to download the source code.
Download UniMelb Robot Files
Download the UniMelb robot configuration files.
To download unimelb.xml save this file: https://github.com/visose/Robots/raw/master/Libraries/unimelb.xml. You will need to right click on this link and select save as or save link as.
To download unimelb.3dm save this file: https://github.com/visose/Robots/raw/master/Libraries/unimelb.3dm
Install Robots Plugin into Grasshopper
Open Grasshopper, open file (1), special folders (2) then components folder (3).
Drag Robots.dll and Robots.gha into this folder.
Make sure to unblock the dll and gha files. Please see these links for more details:
Install UniMelb Robot Files to Documents Folder
Place the unimelb.3dm and unimelb.xml into a folder called "Robots" in the Documents folder.
You will need to make this folder yourself as it won't already exist. Replace USERNAME with your computers username.
It is important that you make sure the files are put in the Documents folder under your username and not the public folder. Do not use the Quick Access links on the left side of the window.
Make sure you folder you place the unimelb.3dm and unimelb.xml files in has a capital 'R' i.e. 'Robots'. As shown in the image below.
Install Additional Plugins
You will need to install the following plugins for our scripts as well:
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