Projecting a box (paneling) onto a surface

Hi everyone,

I'm new to Grasshopper, and reasonably new to Rhino, but enjoying both programs so far. After downloading a Paneling definition, i've goten it to work with some geometry created with Rhino in Tsplines.

However, with the panels being quite large, the fluid geometry i'm paneling tends to become very blocky.

Is there a way i can project the panels onto the surface, so that they follow the exterior of my object, instead of being flat?

I'll attach my grasshopper and rhino files here if anyone needs them, but also post a few screenshots.

Hope i've made myself clear, but if not, just let me know, and i'll word things differently.

Thanks in advance for any help,

Sean

Attachments:

Paneling 1.ghx, 325 KB
Paneling help.3dm, 10 MB

Replies to This Discussion

Permalink Reply by Luis Fraguada on September 24, 2009 at 11:54am

Have you tried surface morph?

Permalink Reply by Sean on September 25, 2009 at 6:41am

Thanks Luis,

This is my attempt at the surface morph.

I'm really happy with how it works, yet it only does some of the panels. When i increase the divisions of V and U, it ends up doing only 1 panel per U division.

I'm sure theres a simple fix to my lack of panels now, but thankyou for the help so far.

Any suggestions?

Screenshots below

Permalink Reply by Luis Fraguada on September 25, 2009 at 8:41am

There might be a cross-reference that needs to be checked on the surface morph component?

Permalink Reply by Sean on September 25, 2009 at 10:47am

Thanks!

Such a little thing, but honestly, without your help i could have mucked around with it for days.

Thanks for taking the time to point me in the right direction.

Sean

Permalink Reply by Santiago on October 27, 2011 at 7:41pm