[Plugin] MXM Reporter (Maxwell Render)

frv · 6 Jul 2009, 15:55

Thanks a lot sofar, MXM reporter works well to sort out materials in SU before exporting.
I do not really care for MXED to start within SU anytime soon.

We are also into Modo these days. SU to us seems a dead end since Google took over. The newsletter from SU proves our feelings. Hardly any news on developments, just shows and tutorials.....

Hopefully within a few years we are as fluent in Modo as we were in SU. We feel Modo is one of the most interesting CAD applications to invest time in.

thanks again and if I have any further requests I let you know
Francois

Richard · 7 Jul 2009, 23:03

Vodka

I wish I had the resources to give you and big fat mac for your great efforts! Wouldn't mind one myself!

stefankaplan · 15 Sept 2009, 13:04

Great plugin, Vodkamartini!

I've already saved alot of time using it.
Only thing I miss is:

The use of letters like "æ, ø, å" (I'm from Denmark)
A toolbar-button. I've attached a rather simple png-suggestion for a button, but I don't know how to make a toolbar (I don't script).

Thanks again.
Stefan

vodkamartini · 7 Oct 2009, 16:14

Hey, Stefan.

Sorry for the late response. I should get an email whenever someone posts in this thread, but that didn't happen for some reason. Luckily, I just saw the comment you left the other day in the Maxwell V2 thread.

Call me goofy, but I didn't include a toolbar in the plugin because I liked the simplicity of having it be a single script file (e.g. all the html and javascript are embedded). I made a quick edit to the code to search for "mxmReporterLarge.png" and "mxmReporterSmall.png". If you place those image files alongside mxm_reporter.rb in the plugins folder you will have your toolbar. You'll need to enable it the first time you use it (View ->Toolbars->MXM Reporter).

The localization part is a bit tricky. Does the actual plugin fail to work when you use those characters in material names / autoMXM paths? I can imagine there being some unicode issues with that.

Also, I haven't pulled the trigger on Maxwell V2, so I can't make any claims as to how compatible this plugin remains with it. It doesn't sound like anything has really changed with the sketchup plugin/exporter, but some of the problems people are having with autoMXM in V2 concerns me.

MXM Reporter 0.4g

stefankaplan · 20 Oct 2009, 23:03

Wow, Thank you very much, Vodkamartini!

It works like at charm.
I understand the beauty of it being a single script, but I just wanted to avoid searching through my stuffed pulldowns when activating your great plugin...
Don't worry about my stupid Danish letters - they tend to mess things up in other applications as well. I'll stick to the a-z system.

Best regards.
Stefan

frv · 20 Nov 2009, 14:17

Hi,
I have had some more time to test and I am pleased to see MXM reporter works well even without autoMXM on at export in v2. So the export is fast and I do not have to copy paste material names in the SU material panel.

I just asign materials through MXM reporter and the mxs file show up in Studio with SU names for the materials with the settings as they are in the original MXM's.
Just perfect.

frv · 22 Nov 2009, 20:57

Hi Vodka,
are you still with us here ? How's Modo ?
Your plugin works great even with v2 and plugin 2.4 of Maxwell.
Actually it works better than expected since I no longer autoMXM and export using your plugin. SU materials are imported into Studio with their original SU names but with the MXM settings as assigned. Even the default material is not exported when using your plugin. All very handy.

One fashion request, could you make the plugin panel a lot smaller ?
SU panels and text's are a little less big. Although I use a 30" screen your panel takes a good chunck of it....
Tx again
Francois