cool to see rhinos doing this as well.
the fact that it scales on a surface is neat.
I moved to Alias after seeing the Conform tool which has been doing this for awhile. Alias keeps the original size of the hexagons with minimal distortion. super important if you wanted to wrap tiles like in this case or an actual texture on another surface. especially logos and badges. model them flat and then place them on. even works across multiple surfaces!

thanks for the video

rotate your pattern 90 degrees then try again.

Dave

Hello David.
I have been trying to use FlowAlongSruf. But everytime i do it. it turns the pattern horizontal and the surface faces in-ward of the lofted surface.
It is a 3D pattern which I’m trying to map. I don’t think it maters. It’s to give you the whole picture.

Do you have any idea why this is happening.

Paracloud is good when you’ve gone through an early schematic design, and have several ideas that you want to further investigate. It is because Paracloud ability to easily link geometry from Rhino to Excel, and its ability to designate specific components to be populated on surfaces precisely where you want them to be via the matrix. It is not the fastest nor the most intuitive, but when you want to have some data-driven (or I like to think of it as data-assisted) design, such as solar exposure on a facade, or wind penetration through perforations on facades or roofs, it is great to use Paracloud as a link. I also saw David’s 3dmax tutorials with techniques aiming at resolving similar design concerns, one involves importing heightmaps, and the other one called parametric panels - responds to sun. Paracloud has an internal sun-exposure calculation tool and will generate the data onto your surface matrix, however, I needed to study my model in an urban environment, where there are tall shadows from neighbours. I used another tool and got exposure maps on the extreme days of sun exposure as images, and I will try and see if I can treat that as a “heightmap” on a facade. Paracloud can import images and create a matrix out of black and white heightmaps, and I was told that they are working on interpreting color maps for later versions. I will try David’s 3dmax method for quick modelling, and will use Paracloud when the design of the overall massing and the facade components are more solidified. Now if Paracloud and Explicit History can work together…

great write up. I really appreciate the contribution.

How do you like paracloud so far? I find it to be a bit difficult to use. I’m hoping with the paneling tool and eventually explicit history we will be able to achieve similar results.