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    [Plugin] SliceModeler v1.3 released!

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    • TIGT Offline
      TIG Moderator
      last edited by

      @xrok1 said:

      Tig, why not add slotting to yours? 😉

      Life is too short to stuff a mushroom... 👊

      TIG

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        xrok1
        last edited by

        Tig, why not add slotting to yours? 😉
        i'm sure a lot of users including myself would very much appreciate it, both for the usefulness and for the irony 😍

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        • E Offline
          Ed-
          last edited by

          Hi Tig, I need the slots and I'm using the 1.3.
          I also installed your plugin.

          Thanks for your works!

          Best

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          • M Offline
            mat_kinotek
            last edited by

            Hello guys, Im having the same issues, I;m on version 1.4
            mostly of the time i got "uncompleted slices", other time it seems working but at the end instead of having the slice numbered and cutted, I just have a vertical plane intersacating one of the Y slice.
            ANyone had encountered the same problems? or do you know some other alternative to slice with sketchup (or cinema 4d)?
            Thanks and all the Best,
            /m

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              mat_kinotek
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              @asteronimo said:

              Based on TIG's Slicer script I wrote a plugin that slices a solid 3d model along 2 axes, f.i. an X- and a Z-axis.
              You can enter separate parameters for each axis. After the slices have been created it calculates the slots for each intersection which allow the cross sections to interlock in an open cell framework, like an egg crate. This process is used in rapid prototyping and can be used to create molds for casting or forming parts.

              These are sometimes called slicemodels or sliceforms.
              There is a nice book about this subject, "Surfaces: Explorations with Sliceforms" by John Sharp.

              The script can slice complex forms like a cone, a torus or a 'C' correctly.

              Tested with SU 6 on Mac OSX.

              Version history:
              1.0 - First working version based on TIG's Slicer script but without transforming the slots to flattened slices.
              1.1 - Solved bug in slot position calculation
              1.2 - Using additional slices (3 for each intersection) to calculate slot holes. Improved parameter dialog and transforming slots to flattened slices.
              1.3 - Discovered that text labels add size to to bounding box dimensions. Corrected text labeling. Corrected contour cutting. Slices now keep their attributed thickness. Improved code for slicing in Z-direction and spreading the flattened slices.

              IF YOU FIND THIS SCRIPT AT ALL USEFUL I'D WELCOME YOUR DONATION AT:
              http://www.public-art-international.com/catalog/product_info.php/products_id/200/language/en
              (newer version can be found there)

              • asteronimo

              asteronimo,
              I'm using your plug-in, and after many trials and errors I found a way to slice my (fairly comlplex) model, but the plugin wouldnt go on and find the cuttings between the slices. It says "FINDING EDGES OF INTERSECTIONS" and then a verical surface appear. I'm afraid is a bug, cause with other models it works.
              Is this really a bug? or am i doing something wrong?
              thanks,
              MC

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              • pilouP Offline
                pilou
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                @Tig : your maxim is very funny! ☀

                La vie est trop courte, Proust est trop long! Life is too short,(Marcel) Proust is too long. Anatole France 😄

                La vie est trop courte pour les échecs. Life is too short for chess. Lord Henry James Byron 🤓

                Frenchy Pilou
                Is beautiful that please without concept!
                My Little site :)

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                • TIGT Offline
                  TIG Moderator
                  last edited by

                  @unknownuser said:

                  @Tig : your maxim is very funny! ☀

                  La vie est trop courte, Proust est trop long! Life is too short,(Marcel) Proust is too long. Anatole France 😄

                  La vie est trop courte pour les échecs. Life is too short for chess. Lord Henry James Byron 🤓

                  Mine is from Shirley Conran - ex-wife of Sir Terence Conran [& mum of Japser ?] - in her 70s book 'Superwoman'...

                  TIG

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                  • C Offline
                    CAD Addict
                    last edited by

                    I just created this quick video while testing the Plugin. Seems to be very useful for model making of complex curved shapes

                    http://www.cad-addict.com

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                    • pilouP Offline
                      pilou
                      last edited by

                      Inspiration:
                      A radial Slicer?
                      slicer.jpg

                      Or at last a slicer from any profil? (not necessarily radial)
                      previous profil will be that 😄
                      profilr.jpg

                      Frenchy Pilou
                      Is beautiful that please without concept!
                      My Little site :)

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                      • Z Offline
                        zbuckholz
                        last edited by

                        Hello, I recently obtained a copy of SliceModeler from PAI and I am looking forward to using it with my laser cutter. The instructions I have found in the past 24 hours are ok, but I was hoping to find some tutorials I could learn from.

                        I have used Blender, CorelDraw, Inkscape, and even UnrealEd so the concepts of Google SketchUp are already present, it's just the proper efficient use of the tool I need to learn.

                        To start with I would like to grab a generic model from the Google 3D Warehouse and slice it up to see how well it works. Hopefully someone has already done a tutorial like this.

                        Any insight or links to online educational info would be greatly appreciated.

                        Thanks
                        Zach

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                          ivreich
                          last edited by

                          Hi asteronimo! great plugin!!

                          It would be good if you could add an option to make slot holes a tiny bit larger than the actual slice thickness because in reality you actually need a small tolerance to get the slices to actually fit together...

                          You could have this as an adjustable amount to cater for different materials etc.

                          Cheers

                          joel

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                            zbuckholz
                            last edited by

                            I have posted the message below in the newbie forum, I probably should have posted to this thread instead.

                            I am trying to make a triangle box, I bought the Sketchup plugin SliceMaker to take a volumn and slice it into pieces I can then cut on my laser.

                            The video is short 1 min 20 seconds.

                            Then I attempt to export the pieces using the SVG plugin.

                            I show in the video the SVG plugin export, and my attempt to open in CorelDraw and InkScape.

                            Neither program can handle the pieces properly, hopefully someone can see something obvious in the video and point out my error.

                            Thanks
                            Zach

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                            • Dave RD Offline
                              Dave R
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                              Zach, I used Slice Modeler, the plugin offered in the first post of this thread, to make something similar to your model. It looks like I got similar results.

                              http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4090/5007268225_3958247615_z.jpg

                              Then I ran the SVG exporter from Flights of Ideas and got the following. I rearranged the SVG images so they would fit in tighter space but I didn't edit the file at all.

                              http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4084/5007878306_7574e8ebaa_b.jpg

                              You mention SliceMaker. Perhaps that is the problem? Have you tried SliceModeler?

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                                zbuckholz
                                last edited by

                                I apologize Dave, the name of the plugin I am using is SliceModeler. I will try to move things around and export again.

                                Thanks
                                Zach

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                                  razer
                                  last edited by

                                  what about if you only want to slice down one line of your group?

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                                  • Dave RD Offline
                                    Dave R
                                    last edited by

                                    Could you clarify that question? Maybe give an illustration of what you want.

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                                    • thomthomT Offline
                                      thomthom
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                                      @dave r said:

                                      "Man skal være klok for å håndtere en løgn, en tosk bør heller holde seg til sannheten."

                                      Interessant proverb - har ikke hørt det før. Hvem stammer sitatet fra?

                                      Thomas Thomassen — SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
                                      List of my plugins and link to the CookieWare fund

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                                        razer
                                        last edited by

                                        @dave r said:

                                        Could you clarify that question? Maybe give an illustration of what you want.

                                        Ive got one group and I want to cut that in half to make two groups, not slice it up all the way through my model.

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                                        • Dave RD Offline
                                          Dave R
                                          last edited by

                                          I see. This isn't the plugin you want for that. You could use Zorro.rb but don't really need a plugin at all to do this. Open your group for editing, draw a face (cutting plane) that cuts through it where you want to cut it, Select all of it an the group, right click and choose Intersect Faces>With Selection. Delete the edges of the cutting plane and the unwanted portion of the group. If you want to keep both halves, still, drag a left to right selection box around the part you want and use Move/Copy to move that copy away. Or Cut and Paste to get it outside the group if you prefer.

                                          Zorro will make the cut for you but you'll still have to delete the waste or copy out the part you're interested in.

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                                          • majidM Offline
                                            majid
                                            last edited by

                                            thanx for sharing mate 😄 , and seems to be amazing , but doesn't work for me 😞 maybe conflict with other ruby or something 😕

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