Quantities from model

jeff hammond · 19 Jun 2011, 04:50

Question this. Do you have an spread sheet to do this and checked it. The vol as you step down your model may not be linear and you may have as much work as just using SU. I have not checked this however.

the top two layers are linear.. the bottom one isn't.
[well, just via a spot check of averaging the two ends then checking the middle]

@unknownuser said:

I am like wise certain the SU 8 included capability is accurate too.

any reason why you're not upgrading to 8? (or at least have a 8 installed alongside 7 on your computer?)
no offense to TIG or anyone else that's ever written a volume plugin or boolean plugin but su8's solid calculations and booleans are superior to anything else out there.. the volume is updated in real time and i've yet to come across any inaccuracies. dunno, it's worth checking out.

@jemagnussen
here's the 3 layers all sliced up.. i guess i should of uploaded this along with the video seeing how it only took 10mins to make (including the macro setup time)

quantities_macro2.skp

i guess you could use this to check your spreadsheet against if you haven't done so already.

[Edit]- so i just tried doing a 'generate report' on the file and it's actually a very easy way to get the individual volumes in a spreadsheet (after they're sliced up).. the weird thing though is that the volumes were shown in inches instead of meters in my .csv&html outputs.. i'm not sure if that's due to some settings of mine or if they always come out like that.. in numbers (apple's version of excel), i just divided the cu.inches by 39.37009^3 to get it into meters..
here's a .xls with all the volumes in meters.. (not sure how well this is going to transfer into excel.. i tried to keep it super basic so it should work )

quantities.xls

mac1 · 19 Jun 2011, 14:38

Jeff
great work as usual
Ref Su8 upgrade. I don't need and will change over to free when my eval time runs out. At present my main use is as file converter.I do have both installed.

Lauren · 6 Aug 2011, 06:27

Personally, I use Zorro2 and I would suggest it to you as well judging from the tasks that you are in. From my experience, it is by far, one of the best tools out there that helped me slice models. It is very easy and user oriented as when compared with other tools.