Downloads and Installation:
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1- Download the latest PanelingTools plugin for Rhino 5.0 for Windows 32 or 64.
2- Put PT-GH Add-on in GH plugin folder (%appdata%\Grasshopper\Libraries).
3- Open Rhino, drag and drop the new PanelingTools.rhp (will need to do it only once).
4- Run Grasshopper, you should see the PanelingTools tab added.
Examples:
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Download PT-GH_Examples. Please use these examples as your start point. They have detailed notes on how each component works.
Next, will post more tutorials and a reference manual.
Getting started overview:
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First step is to create a rectangular grid using one of the tools in Gridtab. 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.
Panel2D tab has many ways to panel the rectangular grid and populate 2D components.
Panel3D will come next... Stay tuned.
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.
作者: Jessesn 时间: 2012-3-8 10:22
提示： 需要最新 Rhino 5 Beta 的支持,测试是需要先安装 Panelingtools.rhp作者: 深蓝Ansen 时间: 2012-3-8 11:20 2#Jessesn补充的刚刚好
