Luis, I seems like a watered down version of PanelingTools needs to be compiled specifically for GH. Then again I wonder if David has any thoughts about porting Rhino plug-ins into GH... Both easier said than done.
It's interesting that PanelingTools uses history. I never realized some plug-ins might be using history in the background, but of course that makes perfect sense. Anyway, keep us posted on any progress. It sounds like your doing a great job of figuring out what the issues are. -taz On Apr 27, 1:44 am, fraguada <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
