[plugin] realSection v0.6 Béta (Updated 9/8/2014)
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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)
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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.
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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?
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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
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.]
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I can't use the plugin...this is all i get. I'm on a Mac and use SU8
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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
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must be amazing... gonna tet it
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@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.
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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
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My plugin is expired
Is there a new one coming out soon?
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I get the same problem: It says plugin has expired!
I am on PC XP SU8in EVAL mode.
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when Define realSection Material
realSection is expired!
??????
I really have to change the date to 2010 from my computer?
thks
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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.
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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 -
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.
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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,
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hi! i think it's a REALLY useful plugin...
BUT...mine says that is expired! and i just installed it! what should i do?
i would appreciate if you could help me.
thank you
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anybody knows where to get the up to date version of realSection? this one has expired
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Any time i wont select Define realSectionmaterial a window apear sing real section is expired.
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perhaps we should remove from the index any plugins that are no longer functional. this one has not been working for anyone and the author seems to have deserted the forum.
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Is there anyone on the forum living in or near Antwerp that could knock on his door? I have e-mailed him several times with no response. He has an active web page. I got this info from the web easy enough
Architectuurburo Wydouw
Address : Hoevensebaan 238, 2950 Kapellen
Phone:
033279567
http://www.wydouw.beI hope he is okay and hope he could either unlock the plug-in as is, give us an update or put a price tag on it. This was very useful. There is at least one other similar plugin around, but I found this one easy to use and worth having.
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