Effective way to deboss my 3D pattern from paneling tools into surface?

Grasshopper
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I am pretty new to Rhino/GH I have been watching some tutorials on lunchbox and paneling tools and adapting them to my goal. I went with paneling tools so that I could make the custom hounds-tooth pattern, however I am finding it challenging to find a good solution for the edges where it cannot make a complete cell. Very possible I am missing something but I have not seen someone get a clean GH output for the incomplete edge cells in PT like I have in lunchbox which is making it hard to complete “reconstructing” the desired parts of the original surface instead of modifying it.

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Additionally, while it seems paneling tools just doesn’t attempt to do anything when it cant make a complete cell, there is one edge where tries and makes some horrible messy surfaces composed of the points it was able to complete, but not the edge of the parent surface. This has confused me and forces me to bake back into rhino so I can delete the undesirable surfaces.

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This shows what I am talking about you can see just the bottom edge is a mess and the other edges are empty.

For this reason I have basically found myself in boolean hell and cannot get anything to do what I want. I have tried several approaches using mesh and surface booleans or trying to just fill the edge holes but I am getting stumped before making it anywhere productive.

Would greatly appreciate some direction! I feel like there must be an efficient way to do this.

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my base-line is that GH and its plugins (like PanelingTool and LunchBox you mentioned) don’t come as a ready made frozen dishes you can microwave into a finished meal :slight_smile: they are more of ingredients you need to mix together in the right amounts and with some expertise in order to get the desired final result

so I wouldn’t expect a component to out-of-the-box distribute tiles into a grid and make them beautifully deformed on the edges to eventually even follow a rim :upside_down_face:
…but for sure there might be ways to attack the problem and eventually solve it

posting your GH file with internalized geometries might be a good way to start a conversation (expecially if you see for 12 days a thread not get even a single comment)… people here very much like -and are eager- to get their hands dirty with challenging GH problems, but you need to give some stuff to play with first, not screenshots :smiley: