In some correspondence with Rajaa, it was explained to me that Paneling Tools was history enabled to a certain extent. I tested this out and indeed this worked. So, as a preliminary connection, one could try communicating between paneling tools and grasshopper through this method. Well, a quick experiment showed that making a reference to some flat panels did not work. It seems Paneling Tools is destroying the geometry with each change to the underlying geometry. Meaning, yes, it is history enabled, you can change the underlying surface, etc and things update, but Grasshopper looses the reference, so each time one changes, one must reapply the reference in GH.
Another note, the geometry generated in paneling tools is a bit curious. From what I noticed, surfaces are trimmed or untrimmed, but not totally one or the other. It would be great if everything was untrimmed, esp things like triangular panels. Recently with a client we set up a process to analyze some paneling tools geometry with GH. In the end it worked quite well, but for someone just learning these tools, it was many steps to go through because of the couple of issues we found. In any case, it became very clear that a seamless marriage between the two systems would be quite powerful. I can imagine thats easier said than done ;) luis On Apr 26, 10:22 pm, taz <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm just bumping this thread. Command line macros in a VB component > could be a good temporary way to use PanelingTools in GH. > > This is the visose example of using functions from the Pointset > Reconstruction plug-in. > > http://groups.google.com/group/grasshopper3d/browse_thread/thread/c81... > > -taz > > On Mar 25, 11:30 am, Rajaa <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > At some point we hope to migratePanelingToolsfunctions directly into > > Grasshopper or facilitate a more smooth integration. > > > In the meanwhile and for those of you interested in the joint between > > the PT & GH, I posted two examples to show how to go between the two. > > It basically involves creating a custom select/bake components to > > extract/attach serialized names to grid points. Here is the link to > > the > > samples:http://en.wiki.mcneel.com/default.aspx/McNeel/PanelingToolsAndGrassho... > > > Let me know what you think.
