Transfer honeybee model from grasshopper to rhino pollination

Hello,
We are developing an energy model and would like to understand the best workflow for transferring a Honeybee model between team members.

For this co-working project, one team member created the Honeybee energy model using Grasshopper, while another team member is more comfortable working in Rhino using Pollination.

Is it possible that we can transfer the existing Grasshopper-based Honeybee energy model without losing its settings, so that it can be modified in Rhino Pollination and then transferred back to Grasshopper for further development?

Hi @kuan, welcome to the forum!

Yes. You can use the PO Model component to push the Honeybee model to Rhino. It is one of the components that are added to Grasshopper under the Pollination tab when the Pollination Rhino plugin is installed. Try to right click and you will see the option.

If the first user doesn’t have access to the Pollination Rhino plugin, then they can save the model to HBJSON using the HB Dump Object component, and the Rhino user can open the HBJSON file natively in Rhino which will translate it to a Pollination model.

In both cases, all the properties are kept during the translation.

Hopefully, this answers your question but let me know if you have any follow up questions.

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