A new component type will be introduced in the upcoming release.

Any Mesh created in the ParaCell Sampling Cube can be captured as a ParaCell and populated onto a Ribs Structure. 

The result can be welded to introduce smoothing.

If the current license is out of date, you will need to delete it. Open the ‘c:\paracloud’ folder and delete the ‘pc-lic.com’ file.

type your username in the text box and press activate.

When the renewal process is completed a message box will appear.

Before starting ParaCloud, open Microsoft Excel. Set the Excel application to windows state (Not Maximized) and close the application. Open ParaCloud and use Alt+TAB to switch between applications. Press Windows+D to show the desktop.

The button creates steps along the profile direction. Choosing the X, Y or Z (in the Offset option) defines the step direction.

Terracing on the Y direction:

Flipping the U and V and terracing the X direction resulted in a voxelized surface:

Repainting the Cloud Data by Profiles

Pressing the repaint button will high-light every second profile in red, creating a visual definition of the profiles in the numeric view.

When a new cloud is created by pressing the button, a new option to copy the previous cloud was added in this version.

ParaCloud can calculate the average height of the 8 surrounding cells for every cell in a pre-selected range of the Voxel Modeler Matrix. The calculation iterates 3 times on every click on the ‘FEA Range’ button in the Cloud Processing toolbox.

1. Triangular Meshes
   

   The Panels Generator offer 3 triangulation patterns the first two are unidirectional (diagonals pointing left or right) and the third is alternated, creating a diamond effect. The cloud is processed according to its order and not by proximities.

   The solution is triangular shapes spread on top of the active cloud (the SmCP or RefCloud) selected in the Cloud Data panel.

   When driving Rhino, use the Rhino Mesh toggle to generate a single mesh entity.

2. Quadrangular Meshes
   

   Selecting the 4-sided panels outputs a quadrangular panel based on the cloud order. The result is a twisted-tapered trapezoid. Enabling the Flat Panel toggle will result in generating a flat quadrangular panel.

   When Generating a Flat Panels Solution:
   

   The Panels Generator offers two algorithms differing in the direction and order of points of the quadrangular panel. The direction can be “U to U” or “V to V”.

   Enabling the Alt-Direction toggle will change the vertex order of the quadrangular panel.

For example, an accumulative solar radiation study of the façade can be used to define the components layout according to their solar performance (window size, glazing type, PV panels, etc). To demonstrate it, a set of parametric components named by a numeric value that indicate their opening factor is created. These components populate the façade point-cloud geometry based on the radiation study results by attaching the tabular form containing the results as a schematic layout for the component-population algorithm. This allows for a performance driven design process where the geometry of each design alternative is evaluated and populated with façade components according to the performance study.

Generate the visual performance representation as explained previously and press the button to document the values of the curvature analysis or the button in the Cloud Processing toolbox to document the solar exposure analysis.

Set the ‘Cloud Point Res’ field to scale the visual output or multiply the numeric results using an Excel function.

ponents Matrix panel. The new minimum and maximum values should be typed in two cells adjacent to the top right side of the data matrix. Select the data range to be rescaled and click on the Scale Data button in the Cloud Processing toolbox .

The rescaling will plot integer values. Real values can be plotted according to the number of decimal places defined in the third row (under the maximum scale value).

The sphere radius is the value specified in the Solar Scale field and the normal vector length is derived from the Normal field. The Opacity field set the level of transparency for the spheres (0 = Transparent to 1 = Opaque)