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    [Plugin] Hatchfaces (v1.8 beta) UPDATED 15-Dec-2012

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    • jolranJ Offline
      jolran
      last edited by

      Why thank you 😳 But I really think you should thank TIG and Kyuu.

      Feel free to ask for ways to improve! Or even come up with ideas πŸ‘

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      • kenK Offline
        ken
        last edited by

        Well, this is starting to look good. My suggested improvement

        1. If you do two hatches of the same face, is it possible to get both hatches in the same group.

        Thank you for your work

        Ken

        Fight like your the third monkey on Noah's Ark gangway.

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        • S Offline
          sergey2402
          last edited by

          Maybe hatches should be on its own layer?

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          • jolranJ Offline
            jolran
            last edited by

            Thank you for your input guys!! Good points!

            I will answer more profound tomorrow. I'm a bit in a hurry! For Now, here is a minitut or tips, as a compensation that the hole "issue" isent fixed yet. πŸ˜‰


            Hatchtut2-1.jpg

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              sergey2402
              last edited by

              TIG, kyyu, please do not leave jolran alone. You are all together make a very necessary work.

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              • TIGT Offline
                TIG Moderator
                last edited by

                We are helping him... [sometimes in the background πŸ˜‰ ] πŸ˜„

                TIG

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                • S Offline
                  sergey2402
                  last edited by

                  @tig said:

                  We are helping him... [sometimes in the background πŸ˜‰ ] πŸ˜„

                  πŸ‘

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                  • jolranJ Offline
                    jolran
                    last edited by

                    About added features:

                    To put hatches in a layers(newly created OR selected) is possible, at least create a new layer. I was thinking of adding that anyway.

                    @unknownuser said:

                    If you do two hatches of the same face, is it possible to get both hatches in the same group.

                    It is a good idea, looking at how the plugin works right now. But it's risky business adding geometry inside groups, and you probably have to select the created hatchgroup before running. Wich in turn will not add that much improvement in workflow?
                    But if you really, REALLY want that feature... It won't hurt testing..

                    My personal view is that I should rather investigate the possibilitie to improve the plugin with a "pattern library" instead. No promises can be made in that regard though. It seams difficult.

                    @unknownuser said:

                    TIG, kyyu, please do not leave jolran alone
                    πŸ˜„

                    TIG's been helping me a LOT! Through PM's and more, otherwise this plugin would not exist. KYuu fixed the spacing and that was mucho importante.

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                    • TIGT Offline
                      TIG Moderator
                      last edited by

                      The layer part is easy. Add some code to make/refer to the layer
                      hatch_layer=model.layers.add("HATCH")
                      If it doesn't exist it's made...
                      Then after the group is made use...
                      group.layer=hatch_layer
                      Done πŸ˜„

                      You could add a 'crosshatch' option to the main dialog, because most of the time that's what's wanted anyway - "Crosshatch? " >> "Yes|No" [you'd need to insert a 3rd ['','',["Yes|No"]] in inputbox moving the title over to 4th place] - default would be 'No'. If results[3]=='Yes' you'd repeat the line drawing steps within the same group entities, but at +/-90 degrees, so there would be twice as many edges overlaid etc... πŸ’­

                      How are the 'holes' going... ❓

                      TIG

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                      • jolranJ Offline
                        jolran
                        last edited by

                        He he! As easy as that, huh? πŸ˜„ Well there you have it guys!

                        I will work on those things. And put an option of angle on second hatching. That would give you as much flexibility as
                        needed for linehatching I presume?

                        The "holes"... Hmm difficult. I have been searching posts about that subject(Don't just want to add anything unless I actually understand what is going on). If I understood it right, holes are somewhat problematic in Sketchup. One have to
                        use both face.outer_loops AND face_loops to get to the face hole geometry? Where face_loops is innerloop? Or include.all loops? That is a big difference.

                        In API it says: Face outer_loops retrieves a "face loop object" But what does that mean?
                        Edges, vertices? Both? Is it an array?

                        For a newbie like me to interprate the API is quite difficult.
                        The posts in here are very helpful, but it takes time to search specific posts. There are currently around 146 pages * 25 * (number replies) in just the developper section. πŸ˜„

                        So with that said, I am very greatful for your help TIG.

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                        • TIGT Offline
                          TIG Moderator
                          last edited by

                          all_loops=face.loops i.e. its is an array of all loops including the outer one
                          outer_loop = face.outer_loop inner_loops = all_loops - [outer_loop]
                          Although some of this is of academic interest as we only need all_loops...

                          As I said before [in a PM]... you simply iterate through all loops and add a face for each loop using its vertices.
                          all_loops.each{|loop|gents.add_face(loop.vertices)}
                          You have the main face drawn... but with its holes filled in with other faces.
                          We can erase these by testing to see if each face in gents has an edge with only one face [i.e. it's NOT in a hole], if not then we'll erase it...

                          faces2go=[]
                          gents.each{|face|
                            next if face.class!=Sketchup;;Face
                            face.edges.each{|e|
                              if not e.faces[1]
                                break
                              end
                              faces2go << face
                            }
                          }
                          gents.erase_entities(faces2go)
                          
                          

                          [this code is untested and might have typos !]
                          Now you should have a perfect clone of the face inside the group with any holes reproduced too.
                          Do your intersecting of the hatch lines etc just as before and then when you erase 'faceless edges' the ones now crossing these 'holes' will be erased too πŸ˜„

                          TIG

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                          • jolranJ Offline
                            jolran
                            last edited by

                            Great info! Will work on that.

                            Do you mean {|loop|gents.add_face

                            or {|loop|ents.add_face ?

                            Thank you TIG. Got me some homework πŸ˜„

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                            • TIGT Offline
                              TIG Moderator
                              last edited by

                              The 'gents' refers to the group.entities where we are replicating the face ?

                              TIG

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                              • jolranJ Offline
                                jolran
                                last edited by

                                Yes that make sence. I had already put a similar code from your pm in my editor where I had used ents.

                                That was wrong then from my part. Makes thing clearer. Thanks! πŸ˜„

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                                • jolranJ Offline
                                  jolran
                                  last edited by

                                  Strange. Should work, but no innerface is created.
                                  Hatch gets created over whole face. I tried different combinations with
                                  these new lines added, but get errors then..

                                  gp=ents.add_group()
                                        gp.name=name
                                        gents=gp.entities
                                        face=gents.add_face(face.outer_loop.vertices) # adds a faceclone from outer vertices loop
                                        faces2go=[]  # was faces2gp? Typo? array for innerloups faces
                                        face.loops.each{|loop|gents.add_face(loop.vertices)}   # creates inner loop 
                                        gents.each{|face|
                                        next if face.class!=Sketchup;;Face     
                                        face.edges.each{|e|
                                        if not e.faces[1]
                                        break
                                        end
                                      faces2go << face
                                    }
                                  }
                                        gents.erase_entities(faces2go)                #erase the faces in the holes 
                                  
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                                  • TIGT Offline
                                    TIG Moderator
                                    last edited by

                                    Try first adding the faces for the 'inner_loops' - each using loop.vertices in turn [i.e. face.loops-[face.outer_loop]], then add the face from face.outer_loop.vertices...
                                    This might work... To see what you are getting stop the code temporarily before the inner faces are erased and before any hatching is done - add a line 'return nil' in the code so that it stops... You should get the faces reproduced in the group. Then try with the inner face erase bit to see if they go [sans hatching...] πŸ˜•

                                    TIG

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                                    • S Offline
                                      sergey2402
                                      last edited by

                                      Perhaps the thickness of the hatch lines should not be equal to the thickness of the edges? Like dimension lines.

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                                      • jolranJ Offline
                                        jolran
                                        last edited by

                                        Not noow Kato!! πŸ‘Š πŸ˜„

                                        I don't understand Sergey. Do you want line weight? That is only possible
                                        through styles in Sketchup. But it's a global feature. I am afraid I can't do anything about that. Maybe if thin rectangles are grouped with materials
                                        like TIG,s dashed lines. But that is further on in developement.

                                        Look at my last minitut for an example how you can use differnt styles, with edge profiles for ex.

                                        Thanks for input Sergey! MUST CODE ON!! πŸ‘

                                        And yes TIG. I'm trying! πŸŽ‰

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                                        • jolranJ Offline
                                          jolran
                                          last edited by

                                          This code gives me a face with holes. If I stop after this code.
                                          But cannot Hatch faces with holes in full script.
                                          Get an error πŸ˜•
                                          Normal (square faces) works fine in full script with the changed code, strange enough.

                                          gp.layer=hatch_layer    # group to Hatching layer
                                                gp.name=name
                                                gents=gp.entities
                                                faces2go=[]
                                                face.loops.each{|loop|gents.add_face(loop.vertices)}
                                                
                                                gents.each{|face| 
                                                next if face.class!=Sketchup;;Face     
                                                face.edges.each{|e|
                                                if not e.faces[1]
                                                break
                                                end
                                                faces2go << face
                                            }
                                          }
                                           
                                           gents.erase_entities(faces2go)                #erase the faces in the holes 
                                          
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                                          • TIGT Offline
                                            TIG Moderator
                                            last edited by

                                            Why not?
                                            How are you hatching?
                                            Stop at each stage with a temporary 'return nil' and see what you get or error messages etc... πŸ˜•

                                            TIG

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