PanelingTools GH Add-On

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.

  • PT Grid not depending on UV

    Hi,I want to create a paneling grid unattached from the surface UV's. The surface is a free shape made with revlove command. I want to have the grid Points evenly distributed across the surface. With the grid depending on UV directions i end up with more Points in the center and less in the outer…

    By Magnus

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  • PanelingTools Course (On-Demand)

    Dear all,We are pleased to announce that the Introduction to PanelingTools course is now available online and on-demand. For details, please click here...The course is comprehensive and it covers a wide range of tools and paneling…

    By Rajaa Issa

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  • Question: Apply Custom Pattern

    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 it starts to get tricky.In non-GH-Panelling Tools:I see in rajaa's turorial (…

    By FrankS

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  • PT-GH for the RhinoWIP for the Mac...

    Hi all,You probably already know that you can access PanelingTools in the Mac RhinoWIP (all commands auto-complete when you type "pt"). RhinoWIP for Mac also lets you access Grasshopper when you run "ExplicitHistory" command.What's exciting is that I just compiled PanelingTools for Grasshopper for…

    By Rajaa Issa

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  • How do I use a positive and negative point attractor in the same grid?

    Individually very simple operation but I want to incorporate both a positive and negative (magnitude) point attractor to create a grid.  I've attached file.  How do I incorporate the negative magnitude attraction without creating two separate grids?

    By Carlos Fernandez

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  • project curve to mesh faces / 2D panel mesh

    Hi,How do I map/project a non regular curve on to mesh faces?I would like to have something similar to paneling tools 2D morph only to the mesh faces,center of the curve to be at the center of the mesh faces, normal as the normal of the mesh at those center points.Thanks!

    By adimeyero

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  • Diamond Problem

    Good morning and congratulations for this wonderful plugin.I use Rhinoceros 6,I would like to convert the rectangular grids into diamond grids to use the "ptMorph3D" command.The problem is that I do not know how to complete the top and bottom of the surface.You can help me please.…

    By fabdesign3d

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  • Unroll surfaces that can be grouped

    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…

    By Jiangmei Wu

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  • paneling on curve surface

    hello guys, I need some help on using paneling tool in a project.I've been given a surface (as shown in 1.png) which is a curve surface, some part of it are sloped and some part of it are "cone shaped", I already had the pattern defined somewhere in the flat part of the surface(as shown in 2.png),…

    By Preston Chan

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  • New discussion forum for PanelingTools at discourse

    Hi all,I'm please to let you know that we just opened a new discussion group for PanelingTools at McNeel Discourse. Feel free to post your questions, report bugs and share your work there. See you there.…

    By Rajaa Issa

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