Parachute is a Grasshopper plugin that displays names above components on the canvas. It takes the idea from Bifocals, thus wraps all components in invisible groups with the components' names. But unlike Bifocals, which is a component that needs to be dropped onto each file, Parachute is a Grasshopper widget that acts globally, on every file opened in your canvas.

How to install

Parachute can be installed with Rhino's Package Manager or downloaded from food4rhino. Follow the instruction listed there. You could also build Parachute from source with this repo.

Usage

You can enable or disable Parachute at Display > Canvas Widgets > Parachute.

Parachute will not display names above all components, but skips often used ones (similar to Bifocals). You can edit the list of components that will be ignored in the settings file (File > Special Folders > Settings Folder and then parachute.xml). The components are written with their names in a comma separated list. This file is created when you run Parachute for the first time. Changes take effect when you reenable Parachute.

When you save a file, the names are saved within the document. If you pass this file to someone without Parachute installed, the names will persist and there will be no warning about a missing component.

Getting help

If Parachute is not working as aspected, feel free to open an issue.

License

Parachute is licensed under the MIT license.