Paneling Tools + Grasshopper on Rhino 5: Creating grid from intersection of curves

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Permalink Reply by Jon Mirtschin on April 16, 2012 at 6:14am

Hi Joval,

You need to sort and arrange the curves to find the "voids".  If you're after a plugin solution, StructDrawRhino makes it easy to achieve as per this image.  I scaled each panel from it's centroid to highlight faces.

http://www.geometrygym.com/downloads 

There's a couple of curve seems creating some 5 sided elements.  I tried to quickly work around this in grasshopper without much luck.  If you join or shift the seam to an intersection point should be fine.

Hope it helps,

Jon

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• panels sdr.gh, 74 KB

Permalink Reply by Rajaa Issa on April 16, 2012 at 2:54pm

Hi Joval,

The problem was that you did not select horizontal curves in order, also you selected the small segments of the vertical curves.  I re-selected you curves and it came out as expected.  Is that what you are after?

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• panels_RI.gh, 75 KB

Permalink Reply by Joval Borlongan on April 16, 2012 at 8:03pm

Jon, that looks like an interesting plugin! Thanks for the help! Those 5 sided elements could maybe be taken out manually if there is no solution. I will try out that plugin as an alternative to Paneling Tools! 

Rajaa, thank you for the help. That's exactly what I was going for (not the triangular pattern, which was automatically put in by PanelingTools in Grasshopper, I'll have to play around with that). Thank you for PanelingTools+Grasshopper plugin by the way! :)

Permalink Reply by Arthur Mamou-Mani on August 6, 2013 at 10:44am

Thanks a lot Rajaa,

This works really well but is there a way to do this with curved edges?

Right now it only creates straight edges.

Also, how could I get a surface using 4points as corners instead of 3?

Many thanks,

Arthur