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    • utilerU Offline
      utiler
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      @krisidious said:

      welcome Chuck... great plugins... already made my purchase. gonna save me loads of time and make my work look much better. I can't wait to make some driveways and walkways.

      for future ideas I was wondering if I could get InstantHouse, InstantConstructionDocs and InstantWife? and while we're at it InstantCash?

      🀣

      There's sure to be bugs with 'instantWife' plugin, Kris. Maybe an instantMistriss' plugin might be safer; when it crashes, it and use for a while till there is an update..... 😎

      purpose/expression/purpose/....

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      • GaieusG Offline
        Gaieus
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        @chuck vali said:

        Hello all,

        I'm very happy that people here have taken the time to try out my scripts. Thanks for the kind words! ...

        Chuck

        Hi Chuck and welcome!

        Indeed very cool plugins; thanks for the free versions and good luck with the pro ones!
        (And yes; πŸ‘ for Chris, too!)

        Gai...

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        • HumpmetwiceH Offline
          Humpmetwice
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          I also love the plugin instant Roof, Haven't downloaded the others yet. I will surly be thinking about going pro on this one!Seems well worth the asking price, its just right now I'm broker than uncle Sam without China! I do plan on purchasing it but first I just got to stop laughing at the Instant Wife and Instant Cash ideas! I live in America so depending on who you are the Instant Cash is taken care of I think cause they'll just print more as you need it but the Instant Wife you may have a problem with but then again it may come as a combo with the Instant Cash? Got the cash you got wife? Chuck, all jokes a side nice plugins and like someone has already said the Instant roof plugin is what architectural/contruction industry for sketchup need I think!

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          • daleD Offline
            dale
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            Chuck
            This is a really great set of plugins. Really looking forward to using them. Nice find diego.

            Just monkeying around....like Monsanto

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            • jim smithJ Offline
              jim smith
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              I agree with everyone, this is a great find - thank you Chuck for creating these time savers. I have gone through the tutorials and will be downloading the free versions this morning - probably upgrading by lunch time! β˜€ πŸ‘

              "Out of clutter find simplicity,
              from discord find harmony,
              In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity"
              Albert Einstein

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                Ands43
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                As above this is just the best plugin. Do you have a tutorial on the

                Edit Slope, Eave and Fascia Settings?

                Edit Hips and Rafters Settings?

                or should I just play around until I understand the functions

                Thanks

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                • Rich O BrienR Offline
                  Rich O Brien Moderator
                  last edited by

                  Hi Chuck,

                  Welcome to SCF, and what an introduction. Great toolset. I've been a long time user of 1001bits and this is like it long lost sister.

                  Congrats

                  Rich

                  Download the free D'oh Book for SketchUp πŸ“–

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                  • C Offline
                    chuck vali
                    last edited by

                    Hi everybody!

                    "Instant" has kind of been a joke around my house recently too. With me as the butt. I've actually been working on the instantCash program since Fortran days, but I could only ever get it to decrement - never increment.

                    Here's a link to a pdf where I attempt to show what most of the roof, eave, fascia, rafter and hip parameters do: http://www.valiarchitects.com/sites/default/files/tutorials/pdf/Roof-parameters.pdf

                    Thanks for all the comments.

                    Chuck

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                    • JClementsJ Offline
                      JClements
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                      Fortran.

                      Must be in your 60's?

                      First computer class I ever took (1968). Took longer punching the cards and standing in line to submit them and to get the printout two days later than to figure how to write the 30 or-so line do-loop.

                      Congratulations of some very useful scripts, Chuck.

                      Regards, John

                      John | Illustrator | Beaverton, Oregon

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                      • D Offline
                        dtrarch
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                        Hi Chuck

                        WOW πŸ‘
                        Question ? β˜€
                        Have not tried Road King yet but will the road follow a preset path using standard highway slopes/grades and such or is it just a contour follower? ❓
                        Really slick stuff and thanks for such good docs too.

                        dtr

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                          dtrarch
                          last edited by

                          New question:
                          Does it work with SU 7.1 free
                          or just 8.0 Pro? ❓

                          Is path hard coded to standard SU install?
                          If so how about an install that has a path option?

                          Road does not work for me with SU 7.1 free std path and does not show in Plugins for non standard SU 8 Pro path.

                          thx

                          dtr

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                            Ands43
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                            Thanks for your help chuck!! Much appreciated.

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                            • T Offline
                              tfdesign
                              last edited by

                              That Road plugin looks great! Perfect for making roads in Unity too. πŸ˜„

                              OT; It was funny listening to some of the word pronunciations in the videos too- like "roof" pronounced "ruuf"- like a dogs bark! πŸ˜† I noticed that the TornadoTwins who make Unity instructional videos on YouTube also say "Hoover" instead of 'hover'. It's just an accent thing that I've always found fascinating (like the American accent, essentially being an Irish accent mixed with German- well that's what the American accent sounds like to me!).

                              Great plugins. I will probably buy these- especially if the roof plugins can cope with buildings constructed with odd angled walls- like British Edwardian houses for eg.

                              My book "Let's SketchUp!" Download from here

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                                chuck vali
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                                @unknownuser said:

                                Must be in your 60's?

                                First computer class I ever took (1968). Took longer punching the cards and standing in line to submit them and to get the printout two days later than to figure how to write the 30 or-so line do-loop
                                .

                                Close - I'm 52. I had similar experiences with card punching before I dropped the class. Plus, my professor said that computer programmers would never make any money.

                                @unknownuser said:

                                Have not tried Road King yet but will the road follow a preset path using standard highway slopes/grades and such or is it just a contour follower?

                                Sorry, it doesn't do anything that fancy. I intended it as more of a schematic design tool. The script takes road center points, finds the corresponding terrain elevations and attempts to make a road with level cross slopes at those elevations. That's really all it does.

                                Chuck

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                                  grim
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                                  chuck

                                  i have been trying out your instant road plugin prior to buying but seem to be haveing trouble obtaining the same results as the demo ( both in su 7.1 and 8 ) your comments please

                                  attached file shows the result


                                  instant road test.skp

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                                    chuck vali
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                                    Reply to Grim,

                                    The terrain has to be larger than the road plus the shoulder width. So I scaled up the terrain slightly to get it to work. But it made kind of a bumpy road. That's because the road precision was much tighter than the terrain spacing - which makes the road follow the coarse terrain. So in the next copy, I reduced the precision of the road by changing the "adjust number of curve segments" parameter from "3x" to "same as input" and the road was less bumpy. Try turning on hidden lines to see what I mean.

                                    As for "try before buy", all that pro does is let you make a few things wider - everything else is the same. So please see if you like it first. (And can figure out all my cryptic parameters)

                                    Chuck


                                    instant road test revised.skp

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                                      grim
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                                      thanks for the clarification chuck

                                      enjoy the wave's πŸ˜„

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                                        tomislavm
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                                        Thank You!

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                                        • leedeeteeL Offline
                                          leedeetee
                                          last edited by

                                          Amazing plugin. Thanks so much for this. I will no doubt be buying the Pro version, once I've got to grips with the free version!

                                          I had a play with it last night before bed adn was then dreamign abotu it!!! 🀣

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                                            Ands43
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                                            Is it possible to create a cross gabled roof as in my attachement, using this software as when I have tried I end up with one roof higher than the other. i'm still using the free version for the time being.


                                            Screen shot 2010-11-04 at 09.44.18.png

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