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 service release of Rhinoceros 5 and the latest Grasshopper.

2- Download the latest PanelingTools for Rhino 5.0 and Grasshopper. Make sure to double click on the installer to install.
3- Open Rhino, you should see PanelingTools menu in Rhino. Open Grasshopper, you should see the 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.

Online Class (On-Demand):
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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.

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PT Grid not depending on UV 2 Replies

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Started by Magnus. Last reply by naasaki Mar 19, 2022.

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Question: Apply Custom Pattern 8 Replies

Hi Rajaa, hi everyone,I am new to Paneling Tools.I am trying to get my head around how to apply custom shapes using the "Morph 2D" component. Specifically, i try to apply a hexagon pattern and here…Continue

Started by FrankS. Last reply by Hannah Stevens Apr 15, 2021.

PT-GH for the RhinoWIP for the Mac... 16 Replies

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Comment by Brian Ringley on November 27, 2012 at 7:23pm: I just added Paneling Tools to AEC-APPS http://aec-apps.com/app/app/paneling-tools

Comment by Rajaa Issa on November 27, 2012 at 8:58am

You should not have to do that. It must be a bug in the installer.

Can you 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 and copy me rajaa@mcneel.com - We'll figure out why the installer is failing on your computer.

Comment by James Lam on November 27, 2012 at 7:50am: Thanks, Rajaa,

I got it solved, I rename to zip file, unzip, and see the win32 folder, then copy to appdata folder, then works

Thanks again

Comment by Rajaa Issa on November 26, 2012 at 2:46pm: James,
This is strange. Can you email me directly to see if we can sort this out?

Comment by James Lam on November 17, 2012 at 9:51pm: seems the PT-GH installers only have win64 folder, I can't find any win32 path? in my appData ... path. if so, is any plan support 32 bits

Comment by James Lam on November 17, 2012 at 8:55pm: Hi Rajaa, Yes, RHI file seems to only work in 64 bit, any 32 bits that we can download?

Comment by Vangel Kukov on November 7, 2012 at 4:36am: Thanks!

Comment by Rajaa Issa on November 6, 2012 at 9:24am: Hi Vangel,

I recommend reinstalling PanelingTools to get proper backup.
To be able to reinstall PanelingTools, you need to go to the following location:

C:\Users\[YOUR USER NAME]\AppData\Roaming\McNeel\Rhinoceros\5.0\Plug-ins

and under "PlanelingTools" folder, delete all sub-folders.

Now you should be able to re-install PanelingTools.

Comment by Vangel Kukov on November 5, 2012 at 10:55pm: Hi!
I had installed Paneling Tools but then I erased my GH assembly files and now I don't have Paneling tools for GH but because I have it in Rhino the installer won't let me reinstall it! Can somebody sent me the paneling tools.gha file (vanguard.vk@gmail.com) or how can I uninstall PT and reinstall it properly?
Thanks!