Hi Marcos,

> It's just a personal resistance to have one Rhino's license
> to make panels in my surfaces

But why is that? Is it because of cost? I mean if it does the job for you well it seems like it would pay for itself in just one construction...

As far as I can tell, paneling is not just a very simple problem to solve, it takes quite a bit of work to have a good solution. For example that paneling plugin for Rhino is a set of 32 different commands that are all related to different pieces of paneling work.

Since it is a pretty complex area, that just naturally goes with it being a normal thing that you will have to buy some kind of more specialized software to do it.

- Michael

Hi Burr,

> Isnt this your "Network tool" or am I just to new to understand
> what he's doing here?

This isn't so much about constructing an initial surface (which Network would be good for) - it's more about taking a surface that you have drawn and breaking it down into kind of "manufacturable components" so that it is possible to construct a real building that generally follows the original surface shape.

You can't generally just hand a construction crew your 3D model and just tell them to build it, they need to know a lot more details like how pieces should fit together, how much wood or metal they will need, etc...

- Michael

Thanks, I'll research it more to know what it means.

Hi Burr, another example would be like if you wanted to build a big sphere in your back yard.

If you went to a contractor and asked them to build it, they might say something like: The lumber yard does not have any spheres, we have to build your sphere out of pieces of wood, how many pieces of wood would you like us to use?

The kind of "ideal sphere" design is itself not easy to build because there aren't any materials that match it exactly. You have to break it down using more commonly available materials like boards, sheet metal, etc...

- Michael

Ah, So paneling is more like taking your model and nesting or sheeting it to a specific material set?

> Ah, So paneling is more like taking your model and nesting
> or sheeting it to a specific material set?

Yes!

> Since it is a pretty complex area, that just naturally goes with it being a normal thing that you will have to buy some kind of more specialized software to do it.

Ok, Michael. Thank you very much for your attention. I'll read a bit more about Paracloud and even about the Rhino plugins.