20 ruby's you can't live without

galbavy1

Being faster is better in the profession, we should start a list of the top ruby's that made your life easier. Start off by explaining how they made your life better.... ie a real world modeling experience (I took 20 hours to do this vs. 4 hrs with a script). If anybody knows how to make a survey that adds everyones votes that would be great! If I am repeating a previous discussion feel free to drop, drape, and kick my asss!

Pixero

There are so many good new scripts now but one I use very frequently is "Put on layer."
Without it my models would be a mess. With it I can hide large portions of geometry while modelling and turn their layers on when i need too.

Another incredible one is of cause "Joint push pull." This is one of those "how did we survive without it" scripts.

And "Left click reverse faces." Simple and quick it does what it says.

And...and...and...

I'd better stop now and leave some to you.

plot-paris

it may sound trivial - but the select instancesscript (not sure, if this is the proper name).

if you have one component selected, right click on it and "select all instances" to have every copy of the component in your selection.

if you have a lot of copies of one component (trees in a forrest for example) it is so easy to select all of them...

Marian

Draw on surfaces it's a huge time saver and makes possible editing surfaces easier in conjuncture with joint push pull ....in fact those plugins i use most often

remus

Id probably have to go with:
Joint push/pull
Tools on surface
Whaats subsmooth plugin
Centrepoint script

The first 2 greatly speed up tihngs that were already possible in SU, and are as easy to use as any native SU tool, just how it should be. SUbsmoth adds an entirely new level of funcion to SU, so you cant go to wrong with that. And finally the centrepoint script does what SU should do, but doesnt, for whatever reason.

solo

There are so many great ruby's available, however there are a few I use daily and others that I use specifically. I will say that 'Purge all' is my most used ruby for my day to day works and 'subsmooth', 'JPP', 'Surface tools' and 'FFD' used for all my freeform work (organics)

otb designworks

I probably use mirror selection more than anything.

Set center point

beziersplines

Mike Lucey

Guys, I wonder if the info / comments being offered here
could be turned into a future poll to establish a User
Rating 1 - 20?

Mike

jcdb

@solo said:

There are so many great ruby's available, however there are a few I use daily and others that I use specifically. I will say that 'Purge all' is my most used ruby for my day to day works and 'subsmooth', 'JPP', 'Surface tools' and 'FFD' used for all my freeform work (organics)

FFD

which one is that?

JuanV.Soler

OK lets do it

juju

@jcdb said:

@solo said:

There are so many great ruby's available, however there are a few I use daily and others that I use specifically. I will say that 'Purge all' is my most used ruby for my day to day works and 'subsmooth', 'JPP', 'Surface tools' and 'FFD' used for all my freeform work (organics)

FFD

which one is that?

Free Form Deform.

JuanV.Soler

bit tricky

ibon

I use very much 45ºShadows plugin for elevations, it's very fast and you don't have to move shadows and sun for each view

Edson

@jcdb said:

FFD

which one is that?

SketchyFFD

boofredlay

In no particular order, here are the ones I am grateful for.

Mirror
Purge
Remove Materials
Pipe along path
Podium
Subdivide & Smooth
Sketchy Free Form Deformation
STP Copy
Weld
Tools On Surface
Joint Push Pull
Round Edge
Bevel
Windowizer
Make Faces
Section Cut Face

Edson

@unknownuser said:

Round Edge

eric,

i could not find any script called round edge. can you post it, please?

boofredlay

It's right here on the first page of the Ruby forum.

http://www.sketchucation.com/forums/scf/viewtopic.php?f=180&t=10370

viga1978

Hi
my indispensable Ruby scripts are:

1)Bezier Spline
2)Tube along path
3)Windowizer
4)Remove material
5)Section Cut Faces
6)3d Grid

dolphus

My most used scripts are
1 FFD
2 Extrude along path
3 Dome
4 Calculator
5 (CASF) Fun Shapes
6 Blezier Curves
7 TOOLS ON SURFACE

Matt666

Hi ! Good idea !

Purge
Mirror
Quick selection
Tools On Surface
Joint Push Pull
Round Edge
Beziersplines
FFD
Ruby panel
Global material change
Section Cut Face
Cut List And Materials
Vray
Make faces
Extrude lines