Know what you mean They confuse me too - and I made them The Extrusion Tools just grew like Topsy and 'EEbyXXX' originally seemed a 'sensible' naming convention until it gets too complicated...

The code finds the geometric center of a Face, then adds some Edges from the center to the outside vertexes. "Crack" means break, shatter, fracture, subdivide.

GROW and CURVILOFT are a good combination for many profile designs. [image: pUeW_Unbenannt.JPG]

Good and powerful!

thanks Jim. just got the tool, it is such a useful script! credit to the phlatboyz

I get it... but I was looking for "something better" RVS

@beepeng said: Hi all. Can I customize Outliner? If so, how can I do that? Are there any examples? Thanks. Ang Beepeng @tig said: No... BUT you could make your own version using a web-dialog - and so heavy-duty coding... If you look at this post you will see some development work on the organisational aspects of Sketchup; it could do with some attention so that requests like yours can be satisfied.

Thank you, Jeff Hammond! It's just what I was looking for!

@ TIG: Works fine! So A third solution I must change the title and my other post! Line above by TIG, Grow by TIG, Radial Move by C.Plassais [image: Rh2D_grow.jpg]

@thomthom said: Are you talking about 3d point data or contour data? For Contour data you can use Sandbox Tools that comes with SU - you might need to enable it under Extensions first. I had been trying with contour data, but I've always had problems with the sheer number of lines that i have. Does point data work better?

@unknownuser said: When you use a PNG file as a texture, how can you see through the holes with a renderer. Perhaps the opacity and a bump map ? It depends on the render application you use - so can't give you a more precise answer than that... In Kerkythea, Twilight and Thea it's the clipping channel... If you use a png texture with transparency (Alpha map) in Twilight, it will automatically make the transparency for you...

There is a conflict between the Sunposition plugin and Curviloft (and maybe other scripts). Basically it causes a direct crash of Sketchup when using Curviloft. see that post for more info on how to resolve the conflict. Fredo PS: I could not contact yet the author of the script

Hi, I have such a plugin (or similar) but never released it. Not enough time as usual... [image: 7VL7_sulinx.jpg]

Make sure it's working first.... Then thank Fredo for a superb tool

@stonebreaker said: @Bep: thx for the link! a generator plugin would be very nice! as an inspiration: http://www.scribd.com/doc/441240/Five-hundred-and-seven-mechanical-movements I have drawn no. 24 . Who draws one of the other 506 in SP Bep

Ditto for the 20 years ago sentiment. I downloaded it a few months ago to try it again, but I still wind up with that "early 90s" look to a render - pretty cheesy. I guess I don't know how to make it work right yet.

@bmike said: [image: banghead.gif] yeah, kind of like that. Thanks, Mike.

@regular polygon said: Unfortunately, I couldn't download the K-set Tilable Surfaces paper from the ACM. You either have to purchase a membership, or purchase the article. I have that covered... just pm.

@chris fullmer said: Or better yet, join the free plug-in writing task force. It is free to join Quote of all quotes, Chris..... A well deserved thank-you to all you writers out there. I download the ones I need; free or fee.

@dave r said: Paul, no one could accuse you of being long-winded. So if you are able to speed up drawing the tabs or box joints, would manually laying the parts out flat be a problem? LOL, No, not really, I just thought it would quicker to output the parts, nest them and the cut the parts.