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.

Location: Seattle, USA
Members: 307
Latest Activity: Jun 9

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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Started by Rajaa Issa. Last reply by Sarah Yeun Apr 26.

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Comment by 筑梦NARUTO on June 4, 2013 at 10:32am: Very good plug-in

Comment by Rajaa Issa on April 30, 2013 at 10:40am: Hi Ruben,

We are working on fixing the installer bugs, and we need your help. nIf you have any problem installing, please email the following to Brian (brian@mcneel.com):

- Your operation system

- Version of Rhino,

- Description of error or error message,-

- The PanelingTools log (if plugin is installed, but not loaded). The log is located in: %APPDATA%\mcneel\rhinoceros\5.0\logs

Thanks.

Comment by RubenV on April 30, 2013 at 10:28am: I have the same problem, when i try to execute it, it just open Rhino 4.0, although i have installed 5.0. What can i do? The installer is a .rhi file.. and i can't execute it

Comment by Rajaa Issa on April 30, 2013 at 8:59am: Hi wang, were you trying to open a file in Grasshopper?
Can you email me the details (rajaa@mcneel.com).

Comment by wang wei on April 30, 2013 at 8:27am: after install the file 'PanelingTools_2013_04_25_00.rhi

Comment by Ali Bousta on March 29, 2013 at 5:10pm: i uplod the developed surfaces on the 3dm file

Comment by Ali Bousta on March 29, 2013 at 5:10pm: Hello freind....ithink that this is what do look for.TestPanelSurface%20unroling.3dm......also each edge on the 3d complex surface is labled on the 2d pieces

Comment by Chad Greenlee on March 21, 2013 at 3:02pm: Hey everyone,

I am new to paneling tools and I am looking for a way to rebuild a complex surface into planar pieces. I am currently having two issues

1. When I import the surface and use "surface domain number" it divides each surface separately is there a way to have it divide the object as a whole rather than separate surfaces?

2. Is there another way to rebuild this as planar surfaces where the gap between surfaces is not as extreme? I have been using "generate flat" faces, and it technically does what I want, but I would like to find a way to minimize the gap without sacrificing to much of the geometry.

I have attached the two files I have been working with, anything helps!

Test%20Panel%20Surface.3dm

Paneling%201.gh

Comment by Ali Bousta on March 4, 2013 at 9:56am: ok Ms Rajaa Issa

Comment by Rajaa Issa on March 4, 2013 at 9:14am: That is really nice Ali.

Feel free to post your work in a new discussion topic so you can get comments sent directly to you. Also you can add your photos to the gallery and tag them "PanelingTiools" to show in the PT gallery as well.

Thanks.