[Plugin] Compo Spray 1.4.2 Updated

[Didier Bur]

Hi Charly,

To get this menu, you must select faces PRIOR to click on the icon.
Do you still miss this menu when doing that ?

[charly2008]

Hi Didier,

the problem still exists.

Charly

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[Didier Bur]

Charly,
I don't see any problem here: the face is selected, so the dropdown list contains "selected faces" and "vertices of faces".
Close the dialog box, unselect all, re-launch compoSpray, it should now display the usual dropdown list , right ?

charly.swf

[charly2008]

Hi Didier thanks,

I tried it again, now I have understood it.

If in the dialog box the component is selected, but no face is selected, than the pull down menu with the shapes is shown.
If in the dialog box the component is selected and the face is selected than the spray type menu is shown.

Charly

[charly2008]

Hi,

Now that I have understood correctly, it excites me to return to the experiment.

Charly

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[simon le bon]

Now I see what it is possible to achieve with Charly, I'm one step more contrite that Compo Spray doesn't work for me
-s

[Didier Bur]

Hi,
Patience Simon... je vais publier la v 1.4.2 bientôt.
With an experimental directional spray:

[simon le bon]

Ah c'est chouette!!
et le directional spray va décupler les possibilités.
(ça mérite la patience )

simon

[pep75]

Hey Didier!

I really can't get it working...I see the dialog still, I read your manual, pressed Spray but It doensn't do anything....What is wrong?!

Thanks!!
Grtz
Pep

[Didier Bur]

@pep75: the only thing I can tell is that there is "something" wrong.
Seriously, please open the ruby console, launch the tool, and copy-paste-post the error message(s) here, so I can figure out what's wrong.
Or download the version 1.4.2., see top of thread

[tpstigers]

Top-Down spray works fine. When I try the perpendicular spray, though, I consistently get this error ("This shape is not available yet"):

[Didier Bur]

Hi,
@tpstigers: Perhaps you didn't red the doc: it is said that this experimental tool only works with the point tool and spray shape tool

[tpstigers]

@didier bur said:

Hi,
@tpstigers: Perhaps you didn't red the doc: it is said that this experimental tool only works with the point tool and spray shape tool

Thanks. I did read the doc. I guess I should have read it with my brain turned on.

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[pilou]

Ah very cool!
Thx for the resizable Dialogue box!
for the next release : does it possible to have 24 #components?
(it's the 24 possible positions of a "cubic volume")
If you are interested I have yet the script for generated these components
(In python for Blender made by zeauro for 2.56 Blender)
So import these 24 objects in SU from Blender, then run CompoSpray

[Didier Bur]

@unknownuser said:

(it's the 24 possible positions of a "cubic volume"

Je n'ai toujours pas capté de quoi tu parles

[thomthom]

Instead of a limited set of combo boxes, why not have a single listbox where you can select multiple list item? And have any selected in SketchUp also appear selected in the dialog when you open it?

[Didier Bur]

@TT: as said in the doc: "I could have made multi-select lists, but I didn't because you wouldn't have that possibility to "balance" the amount of each component."

@unknownuser said:

have any selected in SketchUp also appear selected in the dialog when you open it

Nice idea !

[pilou]

@unknownuser said:

Je n'ai toujours pas capté de quoi tu parles

C'est curieux parce que c'est hyper simple
Si j'ai un module cubique (je prends un dé à jouer à 6 faces pour bien figer le concept)
Ce dé à 24 positions possibles dans une boîte cubique de sa taille!
ça c'est évident

Si maintenant avec ton plug, je fais tomber ces 24 cubes dans une colonne à base carrée de la taille du dé, et d'une hauteur quelconque(x*le dé) j'ai une colonne composée de modules superposés de façon aléatoire.

Et bien si à la place du dé j'ai un module cubique légèrement plus compliqué, du genre se raccordant sur chaque face mais non symétrique à l'intérieur j'obtiens des métas structures pavant l'espace de manière non périodique!

C'est pour cela que j'ai besoin de 24 composants au lieu des 8 actuellement

Toute cette bidouille pour simuler ce que je demandais ailleurs , une affection d'une famille de composants (complexes) à un un ensemble de composants "simplex"

[thomthom]

@didier bur said:

@TT: as said in the doc: "I could have made multi-select lists, but I didn't because you wouldn't have that possibility to "balance" the amount of each component."

[Didier Bur]

@unknownuser said:

Say you have filled 3 dropdown lists with component named 'A' and filled the other lists with components 'B' 'C' 'D'.
The scripts randowmly selects what component to drop in a list that is, in our case [A,A,A,B,C,D].
That's-to-say, component 'A' has three times more chances to be selected than components B,C, and D.
A multiselect list would only provide a list in which a component appears once.