If you used PanelingTools plugin for Rhino, then the Parameters tab is for you. 'Panel3D' contain components to populate 3D patterns between 2 bounding grids. 'Panel2D' tab has many ways to panel the rectangular grid and populate 2D components. 'Panel Utility' tab has components to pull panel edges to a surface using pull, iso curves or shortest path. '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. 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. Once a grid is created, you can shuffle it using one of the attraction methods under ' Grid Attractors' 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. Overview: - First step is to create a rectangular grid using one of the tools in ' Grid' tab. Join the developer for a comprehensive online class (10 hour). This includes all components example and tutorials as Grasshopper definitions. You can use as a start point to learn about the plugin.ĭownload The Primer Examples and Tutorials.

The PanelingTools for Grasshopper Primer (PDF) has many tutorials and detailed description of all components with examples. Open Grasshopper, you should see the PanelingTools tab in Grasshopper. 3- Open Rhino, you should see PanelingTools menu in Rhino. Make sure to double click on the installer to install. Downloads and Installation (Last update: October 15, 2012): -Įach time you update, please do the following:ġ- Download the latest service release of Rhinoceros 5 and the latest Grasshopper.Ģ- Download the latest PanelingTools for Rhino 5.0 and Grasshopper.

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