TIG, you are talking to the master of coding.. you just have to be patient...!

For info, the next release of LibFredo6 will support both version scheme major.minorLetter, like 4.9b (me) major.minor.release, like 5.7.10 (thomthom) Currently it only supports my convention. Fredo

jonorman has a good suggestion if you want a plugin. However, you mentioned that you used the Drape Tool--not the Stamp Tool. Drape will conform to the terrain contours, whereas Stamp will modify the terrain as I indicated. EDIT: If you choose not to get the plugin, which does have a free version, one possible "quick fix" could be to make a careful selection of the road elements only, perhaps copy away to the side, use the footprint to help form a more regular pavement ribbon, make it a component or group, position it above your terrain and run the Stamp Tool.

First of all I have to agree that the plugin is poorly documented, far from intuitive and obsolete after all... I just have to say that initially my intentions were purely good. I wanted to make a tool that may help to model something more complicated than just a basic geometry. It was not intended to make anyone mad or frustrated. Vojo, please accept my apologies for having failed to meet expectations. @vojo said: I.e. since power not documented, a user may try 1.0 thinking he gets a 1:1 movement (or at least see that the movement is some linear relationship between the control points... Speaking specifically about the term "power" I must say I really was not aware about the fact it might be misinterpreted such a way. "Power" means literally "power" here in a mathematical sense (not a linear coefficient or a factor). Actually I gave some more or less explicit explanations here in this thread about how it all works earlier (about three years ago): @kirill2008 said: The second method calculates offset vectors lengths of each vertex according to distances from it to all control points. The degree of influence of each control c-point depends on <1/(distance^power)>. Power is an adjustable value. You may check the original comment here: http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=323&t=22709&start=60#p218438 In other words algorithm utilizes a type of deterministic method for multivariate interpolation with a known scattered set of points which is known as "inverse distance weighting" (IDW): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverse_distance_weighting Plugin interpolates offset value (support of rotation and scale transformations were also added later). Anyway I highly recommend to stop discussion at this point, because discussion of an obsolete plugin is a kind of pointless to my mind. Everyone else who was confused please also accept my apologies for not informing about the fact that this plugin has become obsolete at a time.

The .3ds format can be imported also with the free version of SU. The .max extension, as far as I know, can only be opened with 3dstudio max.

I'll look into it. EDIT: fixed (had a variable left over from command line testing, converted it to the "real" variable). Download 1.0.5 for the fix.

@hmuller2 said: Hi , when importing any brd files (4 ... 10 layers) in Sketchup 8 Pro I always get the error message "PCBNEW-BOARD missing not closing properly". Maybe this plugin was an idea for the KiCad project http://www.kicad-pcb.org/display/KICAD/KiCad+EDA+Software+Suite but not followed up since march 2011 ? Ciao hmuller2, could you attach the .brd file where you have encountered this error message? You can send it by email too... Thanks Ciao Giovanni

Thanks, that's what I wanted to know. I'll give it a try when I get a minute. Don't worry about the typo - I've done much worse and English is all I know!

@luigidemaio said: Ho fatto tutto correttamente ma nulla di fatto. Grazie comunque Panixia. Mi sapresti indicare come faccio ad andare nella sezione di italiano. Grazie ancora. Luigi se non ricordo male l'accesso alla sezione italiana la devi sbloccare dal pannello di controllo. riguardo al plugin, se non funziona credo proprio che tu non abbia fatto tutto correttamente. un altro motivo potrebbe essere che non hai i privilegi di amministratore e non ti fa scrivere nelle cartelle di sistema, tu sei sicuro di essere amministratore del pc o magari stai provando a installare sul pc dello studio di cui non sei amministratore o qualcosa del genere? prova anche con simple installer di thomthom. lo trovi tra i plugin. eventualmente prova a postare uno screenshot della tua cartella plugin così vedo se effettivamente è tutto in ordine come dici tu..

I use this fun plugin and its very easy to be informed thanks to this!

Thanks Rich

@dave r said: Check this out. There's a command for Center Selection which would probably get you started. On my PC I have his toolbar set up so Zoom Extents zooms to a selection if there is one. Thanks! The plugin from Jim's website (Is it the same Jim?) works!! It zooms to the selected item no matter how far or where it is. The plugin can be found here: https://sites.google.com/site/jimfoltz/my-sketchup-plugins/zoom-selection-extents

Move the .rb file from where you saved it to the Plugins folder under SketchUp. Before doing so, be sure you have full administrative rights to the Plugins folder. restart Sketchup after pasting the rb file into the Plugins folder.

i found the reason http://www.ruthless.zathras.de/facts/apps/polygonesia/3d-transformation-matrix.php seems that martinrinehart put the minus sign in the wrong place [image: hMOd_rotationaroundzaxismatrix.jpg]

@cadfather said: Sure, and don't call it cadfather! I will do that eventually and I promise not to call it CadFather!

@gbterstal said: Thanks so much Honoluludesktop. Just for the record... HonoluluDesktop died a few years ago... August 5th 2011 in San Francisco... http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=179&t=40819

@gullfo said: looks more like the former than the latter... SEE wikipedia: Cycloidal Drive This has nothing to do with curves made with the Spirograph toy !

I thot Alex had done a reference WebDialog plugin ?

ah ok.. thank you! hope this will happen! it is for a noble purpose (optimization of barrel's volumes in a crude-beer production laboratory, the more optimization, the more beer)

Very useful tool, thank you! [image: pgFx_.gif]