Rhino Paneling Tools

Rhino Paneling Tools is a plug-in for Paneling NURBS Surfaces and Polysurfaces which helps generate 2D and 3D cellular patterns and populate them over rectangular grids.  From the rhino wiki:

the plug-in supports intuitive design of paneling concepts as well as rationalize complex geometry into a format that is suitable for analysis and fabrication.  The plug-in is closely integrated with Rhino 4.0 and is widely used for architectural and other building designers.

Not the most convincing description – architectural and other building designers?  Suspicious.

Installation

Visit the Paneling Tools Plugin Page and download the latest release package (PanelingTools.zip).

• Extract PanelingTools.zip to any location on your computer.
• Drag and drop PanelingTools.rhp file to an open session of Rhino. The plugin should now loaded. You need to do this once. Next time you open Rhino, PanelingTools plugin will load after you call a plugin command for the first time in that session. Another way to load a plugin is to use a PluginManager command and Install PanelingTools.rhp.
• Drag and drop PanelingTools.tb (toolbars) to an open Rhino session. Toolbars will not show at this point. To view them, you need to go to Tools/Toolbar Layout, select PanelingTools and check its menus. Next time you open Rhino, toolbars will show in your workspace.
• If you use Monkey RhinoScript Editor then you need to save PanelingTools.syntaxml file in ../Monkey/Resources folder. This way PanelingTools scripting methods will show on the left hand side tree of Monkey.