Paneling Tools + Grasshopper on Rhino 5: Creating grid from intersection of curves

Hi all, I am trying to create a grid for paneling tools+grasshopper by using the Intersect Curves component. I have set it up, but for some reason some levels are bypassed as well as the random column here and there (as seen in the image). I am just trying to create panels between the grids, which is a simple idea but for some reason quite hard to pull off in Grasshopper! Any help would be appreciated!

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mass.3dm, 1.2 MB
panels.gh, 69 KB

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Permalink Reply by Jon Mirtschin on April 16, 2012 at 6:14am

Hi Joval,

You need to sort and arrange the curves to find the "voids". If you're after a plugin solution, StructDrawRhino makes it easy to achieve as per this image. I scaled each panel from it's centroid to highlight faces.

http://www.geometrygym.com/downloads

There's a couple of curve seems creating some 5 sided elements. I tried to quickly work around this in grasshopper without much luck. If you join or shift the seam to an intersection point should be fine.

Hope it helps,

Jon

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panels sdr.gh, 74 KB

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Permalink Reply by Rajaa Issa on April 16, 2012 at 2:54pm

Hi Joval,

The problem was that you did not select horizontal curves in order, also you selected the small segments of the vertical curves. I re-selected you curves and it came out as expected. Is that what you are after?

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panels_RI.gh, 75 KB

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Permalink Reply by Joval Borlongan on April 16, 2012 at 8:03pm

Jon, that looks like an interesting plugin! Thanks for the help! Those 5 sided elements could maybe be taken out manually if there is no solution. I will try out that plugin as an alternative to Paneling Tools!

Rajaa, thank you for the help. That's exactly what I was going for (not the triangular pattern, which was automatically put in by PanelingTools in Grasshopper, I'll have to play around with that). Thank you for PanelingTools+Grasshopper plugin by the way! :)