PanelingTools GH Add-On

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Parametric tools to create and manipulate rectangular grids, attractors and support creative morphing of parametric patterns.

This is a BETA version and works only with the latest Rhino 5.0 BETA on Windows 32 & 64 Bit.

Location: Seattle, USA
Members: 788
Latest Activity: Aug 12

Downloads and Installation (Last update: October 15, 2012):
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Each time you update, please do the following:

1- Download the latest service release of Rhinoceros 5 and the latest Grasshopper.

2- Download the latest PanelingTools for Rhino 5.0 and Grasshopper. Make sure to double click on the installer to install.
3- Open Rhino, you should see PanelingTools menu in Rhino. Open Grasshopper, you should see the PanelingTools tab in Grasshopper.

Where to start:
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The PanelingTools for Grasshopper Primer (PDF) has many tutorials and detailed description of all components with examples. You can use as a start point to learn about the plugin.

Download The Primer Examples and Tutorials. This includes all components example and tutorials as Grasshopper definitions.

Online Class (On-Demand):
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Join the developer for a comprehensive online class (10 hour). Click for details...

Overview:
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First step is to create a rectangular grid using one of the tools in "Grid" tab. Some of these components take a list of points, which you can generate using GH standard components, or divide a curve using one of the tools under "Curve" tab of PanelingTools.

Once a grid is created, you can shuffle it using one of the attraction methods under "Grid Attractors" tab. One output is the shuffled grid, another output is the normalized weights based on the attraction method that can be used for variable offset or variable paneling for example.

"Grid Utility" tab helps you do things like extracting points from the grid, replace points, extract center grid, expand grids, create surface from grid, etc.

"Panel Utility" tab has components to pull panel edges to a surface using pull, iso curves or shortest path.

"Panel2D" tab has many ways to panel the rectangular grid and populate 2D components.

"Panel3D" contain components to populate 3D patterns between 2 bounding grids.

If you used PanelingTools plugin for Rhino, then the Parameters tab is for you. You can use PanelingTools for Rhino to create your grid, then input into GH as a tree structure using "Select" component. The "Bake" components is to bake a grid in a format that can be used by PanelingTools plugin for Rhino. If you only work with GH, then you can safely ignore this tab.

Note: All input/output of PanelingTools Add-on to GH use standard geometry and you can use standard GH components to manipulate them. Grids for example are nothing but simple tree structures (no nesting). You can think of it as a list of rows or paths that contain certain number of leafs or elements.
It is important to try to avoid FLATTENING a grid. If you have to flatten a grid, there is a utility to recompose it if you knew the number of rows, but seriously, stay away from flattening!

Feedback:
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Please feel free to post bugs, questions and suggestions to improve the tools. Please use the discussion of this group to post question when possible.

Discussion Forum

PanelingTools+Game of Life CA 2 Replies

I updated an old sample that I thought I share with you. I hope you enjoy it.…Continue

Tags: Attractors, VB, Script, Life, of

Started by Rajaa Issa. Last reply by George Metters Aug 12.

PT Grid not depending on UV 2 Replies

Hi,I want to create a paneling grid unattached from the surface UV's. The surface is a free shape made with revlove command. I want to have the grid Points evenly distributed across the surface. With…Continue

Tags: Grid, Panelingtools, Grasshopper

Started by Magnus. Last reply by naasaki Mar 19, 2022.

PanelingTools Course (On-Demand) 2 Replies

Dear all,We are pleased to announce that the Introduction to PanelingTools course is now available online and on-demand. For details, please click …Continue

Tags: demand, paneling, rationalization, on, course

Started by Rajaa Issa. Last reply by Donald Baker Oct 25, 2021.

Question: Apply Custom Pattern 8 Replies

Hi Rajaa, hi everyone,I am new to Paneling Tools.I am trying to get my head around how to apply custom shapes using the "Morph 2D" component. Specifically, i try to apply a hexagon pattern and here…Continue

Started by FrankS. Last reply by Hannah Stevens Apr 15, 2021.

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Comment by MethodsRDL on October 15, 2012 at 4:28am: Hi Rajaa

I was wondering if you can help me with this. I downloaded the installer but when i double click i automatically get the following error. Please see attached image. Thank you in advance. Gordon

Comment by Brian Ringley on October 14, 2012 at 3:09pm: It asks for a key because you have to own a license of Rhino 4 in order to use Rhino 5. This is probably not the proper forum to ask for help cracking software...

Comment by Derenik Baghramian on October 14, 2012 at 2:50pm: i downloaded the rhino 5 but i ask me for cd key is there any crack od keygen that will help me?

Comment by Rajaa Issa on October 14, 2012 at 10:11am: No there is not. PT GH is for Rhino 5 only.

Comment by Derenik Baghramian on October 14, 2012 at 5:25am: Hello everyone!i hope you feel good guys here))))
its there GH paneling plugin fo rhino version 4.0 SR9?

Thank you

Derenik

Comment by Rajaa Issa on August 7, 2012 at 1:18pm: Very nice Brian.

Comment by Brian Ringley on August 7, 2012 at 1:11pm: Testing our new 3D printing build plates with a dainty model designed by Ronnie Parsons of Studio Mode using Paneling Tools + Weaverbird in Grasshopper.

Comment by Brian Ringley on July 24, 2012 at 7:28am: Prepping files for "Paneling Tools in GH + Weaverbird in GH for 3D Printing" tutorial based on a course taught by Studio Mode and Anne Leonhardt at the NYC College of Technology - I hope to share them in the blog section of my Grasshopper page shortly (please download and offer comments and critiques!).

Comment by Rajaa Issa on May 29, 2012 at 2:07pm: I am not sure how you can simply base it on curvature without carefully creating the upper and lower curves to start with... Can you assemble the 2 kinds of panels manually following your current curves? If not, then there is no way to automate it.

One way to do it is to break your input curves into:
- Straight part, where you divide by fixed distance.
- Curved part, you need to make sure both curves are aligned properly and have the right length to divide by some full number. Both curves need to be equal part of a circle and their centers need to be vertically aligned. See image... I hope this is helpful.

Comment by shabnam on May 29, 2012 at 1:43pm: thanks very much for your answer Rajaa. I definitely need to "Orient" panels, and use just the two panel sizes to have a standardized assembly. Any suggestions how to do this based on curvature?