Tutorials

Antlion tutorials

Video walkthroughs. Each one builds a seating bowl in Grasshopper from an empty canvas, one step at a time. Click a thumbnail to watch on YouTube, or jump straight to a chapter.

42 min

How to Design a Three-Tier Soccer Stadium in Grasshopper

A three-tier soccer bowl from an empty canvas to drawing sheets. You place the field, set the start line and section axes, build the three tiers in section, lay out vomitories, aisles and seats in plan, cut the openings, build it all in 3D, check C-value sightlines seat by seat, and put the results on drawing sheets.

Chapters

1. 0:00Intro
2. 0:17Field and the Input Panel
3. 2:07Start Line and Axes
4. 5:29Sections
5. 13:54Plan, Vomitories and Seats
6. 19:02Cuts and Openings
7. 25:57Building in 3D
8. 30:11Sightline Analysis
9. 34:50Drawing Sheets
10. 37:58Seat Map and Seat View
11. 40:54Wrap-up

43 min

How to Design a Multi-Purpose Indoor Arena in Grasshopper

A two-tier indoor arena with its sections kept in a Google Sheet. You write the tiers as a table in the sheet and bring them into Grasshopper, lay out vomitories and seats in plan, move vomitories, aisles, wheelchair spaces and seats by hand with Custom Seat, build it all in 3D, check C-value sightlines seat by seat, and send the results back to the sheet. Change a value, and everything follows.

Chapters

1. 0:00Intro
2. 0:12Field and the Input Panel
3. 1:42Start Line and Axes
4. 3:42Google Workbook
5. 6:53Writing the Section in the Sheet
6. 11:17Table In, Table Section and Analysis
7. 13:28Plan, Vomitories and Seats
8. 15:35Editing with Custom Seat
9. 23:20Openings and 3D
10. 27:04Sightline Analysis
11. 30:26Drawing Sheets
12. 33:18Seat Map and Seat View
13. 37:19Results Back to the Sheet
14. 41:36Change a Value, Everything Follows

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