paneling tools adapted to rounded surface.

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Permalink Reply by Michael Pryor on December 19, 2011 at 6:34pm

in Grasshopper its called "boxmorphing" http://www.designalyze.com/?p=45

Permalink Reply by Jacek Jaskólski on December 20, 2011 at 2:12am

by "rounded", do you perhaps mean a radial grid?

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• geodesic radial grid.gh, 89 KB

Permalink Reply by Anna Tomich on December 20, 2011 at 4:02am

That's exactly it!! it fits my object perfectly.

So now I would like to know how to convert those points into "paneling grid" points.

Because when i baked those points, the paneling tools didn't work with them.

Thank you so much. Really.

Permalink Reply by Jacek Jaskólski on December 20, 2011 at 4:38am

I haven't used PT much, but I think the attached definition should do the job.

I just copied Rajaa Issa's scripting component from here (example 2).

The script bakes the points and defines a unique name for each one (the name consists of the grid name, row index & column index), so later PT can identify the structure.

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• geodesic radial grid - to panelling tools.gh, 91 KB

Permalink Reply by Anna Tomich on December 20, 2011 at 5:39am

This is awesome!! Thank you so much!!

So now my onliy question is:

See in the "top" view how when i apply the paneling tools, it's not a closed grid? How would I go about closing this to make a uniform paneled object?

Thank you again so much.

Permalink Reply by Jacek Jaskólski on December 20, 2011 at 6:20am

You need to duplicate the first set ("column") of points and append it to the end, it involves basic data tree manipulation, see attached definition.

Good luck and don't forget to show your design here when it's done!

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• geodesic radial grid - to panellingtools - closed cycle.gh, 93 KB