Grasshopper
SkinDesigner
SkinDesigner is a Grasshopper plugin that enables the rapid generation of facade geometries from building massing surfaces and repeating, user-defined panels.
To install:
1-Make sure you have Rhino 5 and Grasshopper installed, or Rhino 6.
2-Install GHPython from here (Rhino 5 only).
3-Select and drag all the userObjects (downloaded here) onto your Grasshopper canvas.
4-Restart Rhino Grasshopper.
Check out our example files to get yourself familiar with typical SkinDesigner workflows. Also SkinDesigner Tutorials will be posted in this YouTube playlist as they become available.
You should also feel free to post any questions, feature requests, or bug reports to the SkinDesigner Grasshopper Group as discussions. Finally, SkinDesigner is an open source project and all of the project’s source code is visible on SkinDesigner’s Github site as well as within the Grasshopper components (by double-clicking on them).
multiple questions
Hi Santiago,
Ive got another couple of questions.
1. how to reverse the panel direction outward?
2. how to make panels follow perfect curve?
3. how to create panels without wall behind?
4. Each panels have double glass surface. Im having trouble importing it to Lumion and applying glass materials. Is there a way to make the glass only single surface?
Ive attached rhino/gh files and also screenshots for your reference. Thank you so much!
Best,
Jihn
Santiago Garay
Hi Jihn,
1 - Panel follows surface normals, to reverse panel you have to reverse surface normal (flip).
2- Unfortunately does not support curved panels (It can be done but requires some custom geometry, not straightforward)
3- Depends what are you doing with the geometry, if you export to Lumion, you can probably delete the wall layer there. Otherwise explode the blocks in Rhino and delete the wall layer with its objects.
4- Here is where the SkinDataViewer component comes handy, you can extract all the glass breps and extract one of the faces only. See below:
Sep 7, 2021