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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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 vikas kumar on January 22, 2017 at 9:14am: not able to install it error message is

Comment by Rajaa Issa on December 12, 2016 at 3:08pm: Hi Tal, Please start a new "discussion" to be able to attache files, etc. Comments are not meant to be responded to.
But to you question, in general, you should be able to add attraction using PT for GH. Please start the discussion, and we can take it from there.

Comment by Tal Fainzilber on December 12, 2016 at 3:02pm: Hello,
Im new in Gh and i just try for the first time the panelling tools..
I want to make a grid with no equal frames
And after to use the points and the segments with attractors.. someone told me that if it not equal i cant make it
Is it true? And if it is there is something else that could help me?
Thanks
Tal
P.s-how i put here print sreen if i want to show it well?

Comment by Maxim Alexandrov on November 7, 2016 at 1:34am: Rajaa, yes I able to see PanelingTools menu in Rhino and run PT commands, but not in Grasshopper, there is no PT tab.

Thanx for your help, Rajaa.

Comment by Rajaa Issa on November 3, 2016 at 10:36am: Spiral, can you please start a new discussion thread ("Add a discussion" link above), and share a sketch of what you need?

Comment by spiral on November 3, 2016 at 10:00am: all super runs, except Chebyshev grid equal to the diagonal?

Comment by Rajaa Issa on November 3, 2016 at 9:48am: Maxim, are you able to see PanelingTools menu in Rhino and run PT commands (for example ptGridArray)?

Comment by Maxim Alexandrov on November 3, 2016 at 9:35am: Hi all!

I have a problem, after installing PT grasshopper plug-in is not loaded, the program displays the following message:

"An error occured during GHA assembly loading:
   Path: C: \ Program Files \ Rhinoceros 5 (64-bit) \ Plug-ins \ PanelingTools \ Win64 \ PTComponentLibrary.gha
   Exception System.IO.FileLoadException:
   Message: Could not load file or assembly "file: /// C: \ Program Files \ Rhinoceros 5 (64-bit) \ Plug-ins \ PanelingTools \ Win64 \ PTComponentLibrary.gha" or one of its dependencies. Operation not supported. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80131515)

Exception System.NotSupportedException:
   Message: An attempt was made to load an assembly from a network share that in previous versions of .NET Framework could lead to putting the assembly in the "sandbox". This release does not include the .NET Framework default CAS policy, so this download can be dangerous. If the load is not designed for the isolation of the assembly, turn loadFromRemoteSources switch. For more information see. On page http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=155569."

Please help to solve this problem.

Comment by Rémy Maurcot on December 8, 2015 at 1:49pm: ASAP, Thanks Rajaa.

Good evening !

Comment by Rajaa Issa on December 8, 2015 at 1:45pm: Start a discussion topic and attach your surface and attempt. We can discuss it much better there, than in the comment wall.