I followed the instructions on Chris Hanley's post and I finally managed to get the Paneling Tools tab in Grasshopper.

In my case the installation was good and the path was correct. The problem was that the PTComponentLibrary.gha file was blocked by Windows 7. After I unblocked it, the PT tab finally appeared in GH.

Thanks Chris and Rajaa!

Chris, thanks for sharing your experience in such detail.  I am happy it helped Rafael.
I wonder if there are specific cases when the .gha file (or other plugin files) get blocked.

In a windows environment, (vista and later), it seems to be governed by "the attatchment manager".  more info here.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/883260

I've found and fixed the problem installing PanelingTools on 32-bit Windows. The problem is in the program that displays the installation user interface, and will be fixed in the Rhino 5.0 Beta release that goes out this week. Thanks everyone for your help repeating and documenting the problem.

still having no luck getting panelling tools in grasshopper to work. Grid doesn't get generated. Some kind of problem with the install I think, although I can see the paneeling tools tab in grasshopper and I just went through the steps 1-3 posted by chris regardless.

If you have the same problem or you know how to fix it please let me know.

thanks!

Hi shabnam,

Do you see PanelingTools drop-down menu in Rhino? If so, can you go to PluginManger in Rhino and click on PanelingTools in the list of plugins then click "properties" & let me know the path is is save at? 

Hi Rajaa,

here's the info:

General

Name:Panelling tools

Version: Apr 9 2012 16:16:51

Technical Info:

registry path:

\\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\McNeel\Rhinoceros\5.0x64\Plug-Ins\6cae...

Hi,

You have an older version.  Can you download the latest installer (May 3):
http://download.rhino3d.com/Rhino/5.0/PanelingToolsV5/
Close any Rhino session, then install PanelingTools.rhi.
Now open new Rhino session and see if PanelingTools drop-down menu is there. Now close Rhino.
Next, make sure you have the matching PT-GH (May 3rd):
http://download.rhino3d.com/Rhino/5.0/PT_GH/
Unzip and save to (%appdata%\Grasshopper\Libraries) 
Next, open Rhino, then GH and see if you can use PT components.
Let me know how that goes. 

ok. thanks!

for some reason there was an error with the newest panelling tools in rhino and wouldn't load. It was going back to the older verion of panelling tools.

I did a complete uninstall and re-install of everthing, and it's good now.

Now pt works and works well. Thanks at all!

This plugin is great! Thank you for the great work and keep up the good work!

 Hello Rajaa and the rest of the PT crew,

I’m wondering if I can get some help setting up a definition using the panelling tools in grasshopper:

Essentially, I would like to panelize a surface by orienting two different panels onto a grid based on curvature.

I’m wondering if there is a way to divide the grid (using an if statement based on curvature values) and assign different panels to these “sub-grids”.

I’ve attached the rhino File and the grasshopper script that I have set up so far.

Please let me know, your help is much appreciated!

Hi,

Here is a suggested solution for your problem.  The limitted typed of panels you can control through the way you divide the 2 curves.  I did not elaborate on this, but rather just gave a general path to solving the problem. Here is the Rhino & GH files.  Let me know if you have questions. PT_DifferentPanels.zip 
 

thanks very much for your answer Rajaa. I definitely need to "Orient" panels, and use just the two panel sizes to have a standardized assembly. Any suggestions how to do this based on curvature?

I am not sure how you can simply base it on curvature without carefully creating the upper and lower curves to start with... Can you assemble the 2 kinds of panels manually following your current curves?  If not, then there is no way to automate it.

One way to do it is to break your input curves into:
- Straight part, where you divide by fixed distance.  
- Curved part, you need to make sure both curves are aligned properly and have the right length to divide by some full number. Both curves need to be equal part of a circle and their centers need to be vertically aligned.  See image... I hope this is helpful.

Prepping files for "Paneling Tools in GH + Weaverbird in GH for 3D Printing" tutorial based on a course taught by Studio Mode and Anne Leonhardt at the NYC College of Technology - I hope to share them in the blog section of my Grasshopper page shortly (please download and offer comments and critiques!).

Testing our new 3D printing build plates with a dainty model designed by Ronnie Parsons of Studio Mode using Paneling Tools + Weaverbird in Grasshopper.

Very nice Brian.

Hello everyone!i hope you feel good guys here))))
its there GH paneling plugin fo rhino version 4.0 SR9?

Thank you

Derenik

i downloaded the rhino 5 but i ask me for cd key is there any crack  od keygen that will help me?

It asks for a key because you have to own a license of Rhino 4 in order to use Rhino 5. This is probably not the proper forum to ask for help cracking software...

Hi Rajaa

I was wondering if you can help me with this. I downloaded the installer but when i double click i automatically get the following error. Please see attached image. Thank you in advance. Gordon

Thank you   NYCCTfab (Brian Ringley)

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!

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.

Thanks!

Hi Rajaa, Yes,  RHI file seems to only work in 64 bit, any 32 bits that we can download?

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

James,
This is strange.  Can you email me directly to see if we can sort this out?

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

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

Can you please do the following:

1. Open Windows Explorer
2. Paste "%appdata%\McNeel\Rhinoceros\5.0\logs" in the address bar
3. Press Enter
4. 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.

I just added Paneling Tools to AEC-APPS http://aec-apps.com/app/app/paneling-tools

Hi Rajaa,

I've successfully loaded the PT Toolbars given the instructions below.

Do you have a recommendation for installing the PT Tools drop-down menu in a R5 Educational?

The PanelingTools drop-down was successfully working in the R5 Evaluation and R5 Beta.

Thanks in advance for the tip.

_kevin

Hi Rajaa,

It seems that I did not achieve a clean uninstall of Rhino 5 Beta and Rhino 5 Evaluation before attempting PT access. Also, I tried a re-start before replying here.

Although removing everything via my Programs and Features, there were still remnants of shortcuts and folders on the desktop and in the All Programs menu. I inadvertently used one of these shortcuts, thinking they were new.

At least one of these shortcuts pointed to the Rhino 5 Education in the Program Files (x86) folder; PanelingTools does not work here but does function in Rhino 5.0 (64-bit).

The PT toolbars will load into Rhino 5.0 (x86) but not function; perhaps it requires a 32bit PT install.
Everything shows up as expected in the Educational Rhino 5.0 (64-bit).

Thank you for the help.

_kevin

Hi Kevin,

PanelingTools installs both 32 and 64 bit.  I also can see that the 32bit is not loading for the released product. We'll fix that.
For now, you'll need to go to PluginManager inside a new session of Rhino 32bit, and load the plugin from:
C:\Users\[USER]\AppData\Roaming\McNeel\Rhinoceros\5.0\Plug-ins\PanelingTools {6CAED836-BC06-4EBC-B1FD-E10886A0DC94}\2012.8.29.114\Win32

Let me know if this works now.

Perfect!  The Win 32 file path makes sense.I appreciate your help.

_k

Hi, Rajaa, thank you for the nice plugin.

been exploring PT-GH recently, just wondering how to morph a surfaces to a grid. you see we can morph curves to a grid. how to morph surface without using morph 3D?

Hi Friedrich,

Try ptOrient component.  See the following example.

Is that what you are looking for?

Hi Rajaa,

Just had a try, worked pretty well. exactly what i'm looking for. Thank you.

It seems that if I create a surface from lofting closed curves and then use paneling tools to create a grid and then shift it using one of the attractor components (e.g. mean curvature), then the cellulate component does not work properly. The points seem to get reordered in the process of moving from the regular grid to the moved grid causing the cellulate not to work. Any solution to this?

Hi Adam,

I ran quick test for open and closed loft and could not duplicate the bug you are seeing.  Can you please send an example my way?  You can email it directly to me if you need to keep it confidential.
Here is what I am seeing:

attracted_closed_loft.png

Hi Rajaa, thanks for the quick reply. Attached is a screenshot.

Adam, I see it and it looks like a bug.  Thanks.

Hello dear members of the Paneling tools members..... i am happy to share my first work b the Paneling Tools plugin......and it seems intersting tool for Rhinoceros...also i dont use Grasshooper ...but only by seting points on Surfaces ( 2 surfaces ) as the first surface is the offset of the second  .....and i get that results.

-----------> in the next time I'll do good examples so the surfaces are totally different  

a new composition of a wall

a shell by the same module

a shell only by paneling tools commands on rhino interface without Grasshooper

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.