Paneling Tools into Grasshopper - Labeled Surfaces

Hi Rajaa, I was interested in having a component that took labeled Paneling Tools surfaces into Grasshopper.

Basically, the component would take a set of labeled or ordered panels from Paneling Tools and convert it into an ordered list in Grasshopper.

1] My initial Idea is to panelize a surface in Paneling Tools with a 4pt surface, so it can follow a curved smooth design surface. (4pt surface panel via orient to grid because the way the panels are read in Grasshopper (See Image Below))

2] Then want to take the applied 4pt surface panels with the desired design surface curvature and serialized them with the prefix Obj(XXX).

3] And finally, I want to take those ordered panels, Import them into Grasshopper and preform other operations that Grasshopper offers.

** I attached an example of the panels I am speaking of as a *.3dm and an example of the good panels (srf4pt) Vs bad panels (short path) as an Image (See Below)

Attachments:

05052010_Example.3dm, 2.6 MB

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Permalink Reply by Rajaa Issa on May 5, 2010 at 10:36am

Hi Zack,

I just published a sample in my blog:
http://www.grasshopper3d.com/profiles/blogs/panelingtools-selection

Please check it out and let me know if this will do.

Regards
-Rajaa

Permalink Reply by Zach Hines on May 6, 2010 at 9:49am