[Plugin] Silhouette to Plane v1.1

shura · 22 Oct 2010, 22:57

very good idea TIG! Although, I am getting some errors here - with a single loop of edges it works fine, but for several faces it gets messed up:

btw, would it be possible to have the projection lines run all to the same focal point, similar to Radial Lines plugin? Like this we could also have a flattened picture of a perspective view.

TIG · 22 Oct 2010, 23:06

This is the first [buggy] release!
Can you post and example SKP so that I can see the errors...

shura · 22 Oct 2010, 23:16

SU 7.1 on Vista, have tons of plugins but only one error so far (wxfsu) ...

silhouetteError.skp

honoluludesktop · 23 Oct 2010, 01:34

TIG, How many plugin, and point releases are you currently averaging? 1 a week?-)

And, you still find time to help us. Thanks!!!!!

pilou · 23 Oct 2010, 01:40

@unknownuser said:

1 a week?

1 a day is more appropriated

Didier Bur · 23 Oct 2010, 11:56

Hi TIG,
I suggest you change line #63 to: @model.start_operation("Silhouette to Plane")
Thanks for all your hard work !

TIG · 23 Oct 2010, 12:48

Here's v1.1 http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?p=281445#p281445
The correct Plane of a 'WorkPlane' is now used even if it has been Transformed inside its own Group.
Speed and reliability improved.
Title fixed.

EarthMover · 23 Oct 2010, 14:13

Great Script! Perfect for sorting out faces that have trouble closing. Could you possibly have it so that if no work plane is selected, that it will default to a placing the silhouette on the 0 z plane? Similar to ThomThoms Flatten script in his "Plan Tools", except yours automagically creates the face and groups it.

TIG · 23 Oct 2010, 15:05

@earthmover said:

Great Script! Perfect for sorting out faces that have trouble closing. Could you possibly have it so that if no work plane is selected, that it will default to a placing the silhouette on the 0 z plane? Similar to ThomThoms Flatten script in his "Plan Tools", except yours automagically creates the face and groups it.

You could always make a quick WorkPlane on the ground...

shura · 23 Oct 2010, 22:07

Just great! You are a hero, hats off to thee!

TIG · 24 Oct 2010, 14:57

Here's an example...

pilou · 24 Oct 2010, 16:16

This sort of image must be at each first post

EarthMover · 24 Oct 2010, 16:39

Here's another example.

Silhouette to plane is also great for flattening a set of looped edges you want to be planar to form a face, but cant seem to find the vert that's out of whack.

xrok1 · 24 Oct 2010, 17:40

this could be great for making face me components! render the 3d version then apply as texture to the 2d.

Ben Ritter · 25 Oct 2010, 16:32

TIG, fabulous! Thank you for the flatten to plane script as well. You are very generous, and gifted.

caleidos4d · 26 Oct 2010, 18:12

TIG!!!

danbig · 27 Oct 2010, 16:06

Thanks, TIG. Amazing script.

Does this plugin do the flatten to plane, or is that a separate plugin? I can't seem to find the command for flatten to plane. (Silhouette to Plane is working great)

shura · 27 Oct 2010, 17:04

Flatten to Plane:

http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=323&t=31895

shura · 28 Oct 2010, 10:49

Just to point out again what Adam already said, Silhouette to Workplane makes closing difficult outlines sooo easy. Brought back the faith in freehand tool to me.

Rocky, that is a pretty smart idea. I am having thoughts about this kind of matte painting tricks all the time.
(like here: http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=79&t=31069 )

thanks again for your generosity TIG!

JClements · 29 Oct 2010, 15:11

TIG:
When I click on the script's download button the #SilhoutteTpoPlane.rb downloads. I put the script in the plugins directory of SU8. When I open SU8 I get the following error:

%(#FF0000)[Error Loading File #SilhouetteToPlane.rb
no such file to load -- #WorkPlane.rb]

Should #WorkPlane.rb also have been downloaded?

Regards, John