Second release of PanelingTools Add-On to Grasshopper

Hi all,

Just posted a new release of PT-GH.

Please note the following:

1- Make sure to download the latest Rhino 5.0 Beta

2- Make sure to download the latest PanelingTools plugin for Rhino 5.0 (32 or 64 depending on your system).

3- Download PT-GH Add-on

4- Get the latest PT-GH_Examples file with updated components.

Look forward to your feedback

Enjoy!

Rajaa Issa

Robert McNeel & Associates

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New in this release:

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- Fixed divide surface by distance to output cleaned grid.
- Added CleanGrid component to delete null rows and columns in a grid.
- Added SquareGrid component to make all rows in a grid have equal number of elements.
- Added two Coordinate components that extracts x, y and z directions for one grid and 2 grids.
- Added a component to create a grid from intersecting curves in 2 directions.
- Added Cellulate3D component to extract cells between 2 bounding grids.
- Added Managed3D paneling component to define custom 3D patterns.
- Added Morpg3D component to morph 3D curves and polysurfaces between 2 bounding grids with the ability for smooth morphing if surfaces are defined.
- Changed surface domain grid components. Now we have 3 components:
- Grid from domain by number.
- Grid from domain by length on surface with option to select reference point on surface.
- Grid from domain by chord distance with option to select reference point on surface.
- Added new divide curve components to divide by length and chord distance that accept reference point on curve.

Replies to This Discussion

Permalink Reply by John Mondro on May 3, 2012 at 12:32pm

Hi Rajaa-

I'm having some trouble getting the GH PT plugin to function properly. I get a 'PanelingToolsDotNet' error message on the command box (please see image). Any ideas?

Thanks!

John

Permalink Reply by Rajaa Issa on May 3, 2012 at 12:42pm

Hi John,

There are 2 steps to installing PT-GH.

- Download and run PanelingTools.rhi (to install PT SDK and plugin for Rhino)

http://download.rhino3d.com/Rhino/5.0/PanelingToolsV5/

- Download PTComponentLibrary (GH plugin) and save unzipped file to "%appdata%\Grasshopper\Libraries"

http://download.rhino3d.com/Rhino/5.0/PT_GH/

Also make sure to get hold of the latest Rhino 5.0 Beta.

Let me know if that fix the problem.

Permalink Reply by John Mondro on May 3, 2012 at 12:52pm

Thanks for the quick reply - I followed both of the steps listed prior to running the plugin. I am currently running the latest 5.0 Beta release (updated this morning). If I attempt to run the .rhi again the dialog says "This package is aready installed."

Permalink Reply by Rajaa Issa on May 3, 2012 at 3:38pm

Hi John,

I just released new version of PanelingTools and PT-GH.
Please get those and let me know if you still run into a problem.

Permalink Reply by John Mondro on May 4, 2012 at 9:23am

Got it! Had an old version of PT_SDK.dll in my search path. Replaced it with the version from your latest upload.

Running perfectly now - REALLY COOL! :)

Thanks for the help Rajaa!

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