McNeel just released an update to the Paneling tool. This looks like a great plug-in for Rhino. I have not had a chance to use it yet but i plan to install it soon and test out the tools. From what i can see on the McNeel site, this tool is used for dividing surfaces for panelization. Another great aspect to this tool is that most if not all of the commands are available through RhinoScript.

Text from the McNeel Website : Panels are repeated pattern on surfaces, polysurfaces or a grid of points. PanelingTools offer two ways to create panels. The first is to use an ordered paneling grid of points (ordered by row and column) and the second is by objects (NURBS surface or polysurface). Panels are added in the form of edges, faces borders, faces patches, flat faces and a mesh. Panels are serialized.

PanelingTools use some geometry concepts such as NURBS curves and surfaces, the U and V direction of a NURBS surface, trimmed vs untrimmed surfaces and polysurfaces. For a quick review, you can check the NurbsSurfaces wiki page.

Link to the plug-in

Link to the commands

Here are Few of the Commands:

PT_PanelBySurface

PT_PanelByGrid

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