PanelingTools GH Add-On

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Description

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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Unroll surfaces that can be grouped

by Jiangmei Wu

Jan 23, 2018

Hi Rajaa, I'm trying to unroll the square pyramids (see attached Rhino file) for laser cutting. Instead of unroll all of the pyramids and each pyramid in 4 triangles, I would like to them to be unrolled and grouped so that there will be every four triangles for each pyramid.

I did this in Grasshopper before. But I don't know if I can do the same using the paneling tool.

Thank you. Mei

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    Rajaa Issa

    Hi Jiangmei,

    If I understood you right, here is what I'd do to keep each morph pyramid faces together. Before paneling, join panel faces of the module into one polysurface, then panel. After that when you use ptUnrollFaces, with Explode=No, you should be able to keep faces of each pyramid together.

    Jan 25, 2018

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      Rajaa Issa

      Hi Jiangmei,

      If I understood you right, here is what I'd do to keep each morph pyramid faces together. Before paneling, join panel faces of the module into one polysurface, then panel. After that when you use ptUnrollFaces, with Explode=No, you should be able to keep faces of each pyramid together.

      Jan 25, 2018