PanelingTools GH Add-On

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Parametric tools to create and manipulate rectangular grids, attractors and support creative morphing of parametric patterns.

This is a BETA version and works only with the latest Rhino 5.0 BETA on Windows 32 & 64 Bit.

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Downloads and Installation (Last update: October 15, 2012):
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Each time you update, please do the following:

1- Download the latest Rhinoceros 5 Beta

2- Download the latest PanelingTools for Rhino 5.0 Plugin and PT-GH Add On.
3- Open Rhino and run Grasshopper, you should see the PanelingTools menu in Rhino and PanelingTools tab in Grasshopper.

Where to start:
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The PanelingTools for Grasshopper Primer (PDF) has many tutorials and detailed description of all components with examples. You can use as a start point to learn about the plugin.

Download The Primer Examples and Tutorials. This includes all components example and tutorials as Grasshopper definitions.

Overview:
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First step is to create a rectangular grid using one of the tools in "Grid" tab. Some of these components take a list of points, which you can generate using GH standard components, or divide a curve using one of the tools under "Curve" tab of PanelingTools.

Once a grid is created, you can shuffle it using one of the attraction methods under "Grid Attractors" tab. One output is the shuffled grid, another output is the normalized weights based on the attraction method that can be used for variable offset or variable paneling for example.

"Grid Utility" tab helps you do things like extracting points from the grid, replace points, extract center grid, expand grids, create surface from grid, etc.

"Panel Utility" tab has components to pull panel edges to a surface using pull, iso curves or shortest path.

"Panel2D" tab has many ways to panel the rectangular grid and populate 2D components.

"Panel3D" contain components to populate 3D patterns between 2 bounding grids.

If you used PanelingTools plugin for Rhino, then the Parameters tab is for you. You can use PanelingTools for Rhino to create your grid, then input into GH as a tree structure using "Select" component. The "Bake" components is to bake a grid in a format that can be used by PanelingTools plugin for Rhino. If you only work with GH, then you can safely ignore this tab.

Note: All input/output of PanelingTools Add-on to GH use standard geometry and you can use standard GH components to manipulate them. Grids for example are nothing but simple tree structures (no nesting). You can think of it as a list of rows or paths that contain certain number of leafs or elements.
It is important to try to avoid FLATTENING a grid. If you have to flatten a grid, there is a utility to recompose it if you knew the number of rows, but seriously, stay away from flattening!

Feedback:
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Please feel free to post bugs, questions and suggestions to improve the tools. Please use the discussion of this group to post question when possible.

Discussion Forum

New PanelingTools Release of May 8, 2013

Hi All,A new release of PanelingTools for Rhino 5 and Grasshopper is now available forDownload...New…Continue

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Started by Rajaa Issa May 8.

If you have trouble installing or loading PanelingTools...

Hi,We are working on fixing the Rhino rhi installer bugs, and we need your help.If you are having any problem installing or loading the latest release of PanelingTools, please email the following to…Continue

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Started by Rajaa Issa Apr 30.

install problem 2 Replies

i couldnt run the file 'PanelingTools_2013_04_25_00.rhi'. when i excute it, it appears a window and ask me with which programm i wanna run it!then i was confused and i have chosen rhino as the…Continue

Started by Frank. Last reply by RubenV Apr 30.

102 Space Frame tutorial with PT-GH 10 Replies

The tutorial shows step by step how to define the space frame system using PanelingTools for Grasshopper. I attached the data sheet and the GH definition.Let me know if you have any…Continue

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Comment by Andres Gonzalez on May 15, 2012 at 12:18pm: It looks like it is working now. It comes to my mind that PT should have a About PT in both, Rhino and GH, so that we know which one is running all the time. Like a Ver. number etc...

Comment by Andres Gonzalez on May 15, 2012 at 11:38am: It looks like I have an old PT in my computer... I am looking everywhere to find your files and deleting them to install a new and clean ver...

Comment by Rajaa Issa on May 15, 2012 at 11:14am: Hi Andres, I did have a look, is there any particular question you have related to it?

Comment by Brian Gillespie on May 15, 2012 at 11:00am

Those of you having troubles installing, please do the following:

Open Windows Explorer
Paste "%appdata%\McNeel\Rhinoceros\5.0\logs" in the address bar
Press Enter
Send the newest several "PanelingTools*.log" files to brian@mcneel.com - I'll figure out why the installer is failing on your computer.

Comment by Andres Gonzalez on May 15, 2012 at 10:39am: Rajaa, could you take a look at this please...PT01.gh

I have not idea why it turn red....

Comment by Rafael Marrero on May 15, 2012 at 10:15am: There is only one file:

PTComponentLibrary.gha

Comment by Rajaa Issa on May 15, 2012 at 9:55am: So when you open (%appdata%\Grasshopper\Libraries) what do you see? Can you list all files with their extensions?

Comment by Rafael Marrero on May 15, 2012 at 9:53am: Yes I do.

Comment by Rajaa Issa on May 15, 2012 at 9:46am: One more question for you, do you see PanelingTools drop-down menu in the Rhino interface?

Comment by Rafael Marrero on May 15, 2012 at 9:31am: Hi Rajaa,

Yes, I did.

I did so again, just in case I had made a mistake before. There is still no PT tab in Grasshopper.

I guess the mystery deepens.