Is there any plugin, grasshopper or otherwise, that can panel (with hex pattern for ex.) a subD object? I know I could try and convert the subD object to a single surface and panel that way. But for geometries that don’t lend themselves well to a single surface, it would be good to be able to Panel SubD. If you take a look at the sphere below, it can be paneled, but the hex patterns aren’t uniform size. If a SubD version could be paneled, maybe uniform size hexagons could be achieved.
My application is shoe treads that wrap around the sides of the midsole. I did see this tutorial which might be the way I go, but it would be so much better if paneling worked on SubD…
Maybe what I’m looking for is a lattice tool that can do paneling. But after looking at some, like Crystallon and Dendro, they seem to be for filling volumes with lattices rather than something like paneling patterns like hexagons to a surface/subD…
Any suggestions?
Thank you,
Sam