[plugin] realSection v0.6 Béta (Updated 9/8/2014)

Edson

@edson said:

thanks for this most useful plugin!

a question: does anyone know were one can get textures with the hatch patterns normally used in section drawings?

Look in the demo skp file and you find very nice section materials.

guy,

I have seen it, of course. I meant other textures beside those good ones.

simon le bon

Hi Edson,

@unknownuser said:

I meant other textures beside those good ones.

Not very far you have a nice bench of hatching textures with TIG's 2D Tools. It will be the occasion to test this excellent set if you've not already done..

++simon

Edson

@simon le bon said:

Hi Edson,

@unknownuser said:

I meant other textures beside those good ones.

Not very far you have a nice bench of hatching textures with TIG's 2D Tools. It will be the occasion to test this excellent set if you've not already done..

++simon

thanks, simon, for bringing this to our attention. there are so many good plugins that one forgets about some of them.

simon le bon

Dear Edson,

@unknownuser said:

there are so many good plugins that one forgets about some of them.

I agree.
Plugins are like books in a library. Depending on the kind of work we are interested by in the moment, we are interested to test those which are in relation.

Like for books, we need sometimes the help of the community to help us to focus on one or two plugins. We can't try everything _ not enough time for that.

This reminds me that I think there is a plugin to pick in our "library" only the plugins we want to open in our session of SketchUp ??? May be a plug by Jim !?

Cheers,
simon.

Jim

@simon le bon said:

This reminds me that I think there is a plugin to pick in our "library" only the plugins we want to open in our session of SketchUp ??? May be a plug by Jim !?

I may have posted some thoughts, but I do not have a good solution.

plot-paris

Hi GWydouw,

first of all: fantastic plugin! I like it a lot.
playing around with this tool instantly got me dreaming... so I've got some ideas / wishes:

Nested Group Support: as mentioned before, the ability to process nested groups is of vital importance for this plugin to become a mighty tool (most models in SketchUp (definitely all of mine) heavily rely on nested grouping)
Components Support: components need to work as well (again, i've got lots of them in my models ). ideally one would define one component and your plugin then would apply the section-material to all component-instances in the model.
Texture-Linking: another great feature would be to link section-materials to materials used to paint the model. so for example I draw a building with concrete walls and timber floor boards and use textures to paint these object accordingly. now, when creating the realSection, I link section-materials to these textures. as a result all objects textured with a concrete texture will be sectioned with the linked section-material, objects painted with the timber floor boards will get the section-material linked to this texture and so on.
(I know, this might be quite tricky. but should you decide to give it a try, please remember, that sometimes objects can have several materials applied to them (one material on the raw geometry, another applied to the group itself. and it gets even messier, when you have nested groups). in such a case its probably best to give the innermost material the highest priority (cause thats how SketchUp itself treats materials)).
interface-wise it would probably be most comfortable to have a dialog window where you have pairs of materials; the texture-material on the left, the associated section-material on the right. you can then choose from a dropdown-list.
to keep the interface clean, you would only have one pair of textures at first. as soon as you choose your first texture, a new blank set is added. thus keep the size of the window small without limiting the number of textures...
Interactive Section-Texturing: first of all you would have to close all groups that haven't been assigned a section-material with a default material. and then you make the texture-selection process interactive. the workflow would be the following: you right-click a group (or it's section-cut face) and define a section-material. when you now hit the OK button, the section gets updated, letting you see the results instantly.
Linking Cut-Faces to Section Planes: and finally a really tricky, but clever idea Imagine it was possible to link the layer-visibility to a section plane. so when a certain section plane is active, the layer with the associated section-faces is made visible. when you switch off the section plane, the section-faces layer automatically is made invisible. when you activate another section plane, it's dedicated section-faces layer gets activated and so on...
so no manual showing / hiding of layers. everything is done automatically. what a wonderful prospect!

Ok, that was quite a lot of ideas. and I have no idea how realistic they are. but anyway, what do you think?

simon le bon

Hi Dear Jim,

@unknownuser said:

I may have posted some thoughts, but I do not have a good solution.

In fact I was thinking of one of your plugs I have still never tried: a plug to assemble family of commands in our own toolbars

SketchUp Custom Toolbars

Custom Tollbars described in Pushpullbar

But its purpose is not what I was remembering. Because it only gather the native commands of Sketchup and not the external plugins..

++simon.

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Retroperspectively I'm very sorry Dear GWydouw to bump this way your thread.
In fact I haven't yet tried your tool. I love already Tig's SectionCutFace and I know your tool is going to give more. So I love it without knowing it

I see that Plot Paris reloads the thread in it good way with his following post.]

troyhome

I can't use the plugin...this is all i get. I'm on a Mac and use SU8

ivreich

Hi GWydouw

Ok i don't know what is happening but i can't get this plugin to work even in the demo file. The preset sections work fine, but when i set my own section nothing happens.

I've followed every step you outlined, defining real section etc but still doesnt work for me. I have the latest version (0.6) of your plugin and am using SU 7.1 Pro.

I have attached two images showing how your sections work but mine don't, including the error message that pops up on the ruby console. i'm stumped. HELP!

Joel

My section with error message

error message

your section

majid

must be amazing... gonna tet it

troyhome

@majid said:

must be amazing... gonna tet it

if only it worked...maybe it's only for the pc?

RHPLUS

@troyhome said:

I can't use the plugin...this is all i get. I'm on a Mac and use SU8

I have the same problem on PC.
What should we do to run this great plugin?

paddyclown

hello

now we are after the 31/1/2011 what happens next ?
as it states that realsection beta expired yesterday & using it really doesnt work now (message pops up saying it's expiresd) ???

thanks

spruzza

My plugin is expired
Is there a new one coming out soon?
thanks

archigrafix

I get the same problem: It says plugin has expired!
I am on PC XP SU8in EVAL mode.
thanx to help. This plug seems so interesting!

barsaglini

when Define realSection Material

realSection is expired!

??????

I really have to change the date to 2010 from my computer?

thks

vgt19

just curious, is access to the plugin over? I'd like to try but doesn't seem like there is anyway to get it now that it has expired.

archigrafix

I also posted a few days ago about that expired plug but not lot of moves there on the subject..?
Please make a sign to us all, very interested in your plugin

Gaieus

Guy has not logged in since February 3 so must be busy with something else ATM (hopefully everything is okay with him).

You guys can try to send a PM to him and if his preferences are set so, he will be notified by email.

gillesalvarenga

I have installed it today but it has already expired

do you know where can I download a version which is not expired yet or where can I buy this plugin?

thanks,