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    [Plugin] SurfaceGen (0.9.0b) β€” 28 April 2012

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    • 66searcher6 Offline
      66searcher
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      @Diggsey
      πŸ‘ great plugin ! πŸ‘ great job !

      http://hamidtoliat.deviantart.com/

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        LannorMov
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        El otro dia dije "Gracias Oxer" cuando en realidad querΓ­a decir "Gracias Diggsey"
        Disculpa.

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        • 66searcher6 Offline
          66searcher
          last edited by

          a test :


          Capture.JPG

          http://hamidtoliat.deviantart.com/

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          • J Offline
            justinplunkett
            last edited by

            I feel like a 5 year old. The geometric forms created are gorgeous and I haven't the faintest idea how to use this.

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              make.GQ.china
              last edited by

              πŸ‘ Thank you very much! Good plugin

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                Heven7_floor
                last edited by

                Thanks you very great plugin πŸ‘ πŸ‘

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                  boilingsnow
                  last edited by

                  Very cool plugin!
                  But a progress bar could be very helpful. Because I 've installed it and by performing the plugin it seems to take hours to generate a surface and I don't know if it is really working!

                  I've waited for more than 25 minutes for a simple eqation so I have to give up finally...
                  In other words, I can't get it work in my sketchup 8.

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                    imabzeous
                    last edited by

                    a very nice plugin, ( as i have seen only in pics and shapes that you have created) but i don't understand where can i get equations for it? i want to make some fractal geometry but when i applied the equation it wont work. so can any body help me with this equation thing more..

                    and thank you

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                      boilingsnow
                      last edited by

                      @boilingsnow said:

                      Very cool plugin!
                      But a progress bar could be very helpful. Because I 've installed it and by performing the plugin it seems to take hours to generate a surface and I don't know if it is really working!

                      I've waited for more than 25 minutes for a simple eqation so I have to give up finally...
                      In other words, I can't get it work in my sketchup 8.

                      I figured out that SurfaceGen has a conflict with another plugin calls 'Modelfuction'.
                      If you get Modelfuction installed in your sketchup, you can see the pop-up window by applying Surfacegen, but it will not create any surface.
                      I have uninstalled Modelfunction now and SurfaceGen works well!

                      By the way this is really a awesome plugin. So it would be perfect if the author can get rid of the conflict with other plugins...

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                      • TIGT Offline
                        TIG Moderator
                        last edited by

                        I far as I can see SurfaceGen does not use any unusual methods or interfere with base/built-in classes/methods. However, Modelfunction may well do that - there are a few scripts will ill-advisedly mess with these and thereby they affect other tools unpredictably [often messing with 'group', 'face' etc].
                        As Modelfunction is a paid tool [and you must be a customer] I suggest you contact the author direct to get him to fix his code...

                        TIG

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                          Diggsey
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                          I haven't posted in ages, but I just noticed that there was a way I could improve the speed of this plugin. The new version only calls "eval" once to create a proc object which it then calls repeatedly, so it shouldn't have to keep parsing the expression each time.

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                            thomthom
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                            I added version number and time of update to the thread title so it's easier to see the change when scanning the thread titles - also the Plugin Index works better then.

                            Thomas Thomassen β€” SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
                            List of my plugins and link to the CookieWare fund

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                              ramdelgp
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                              @unknownuser said:

                              ah very cool! 😎
                              Topmod and K3dSurf in a same place! πŸ‘
                              (you can take some formula from K3DSurf πŸ˜‰

                              @unknownuser said:

                              For now, I'm just playing, but I have dreams of making some beautiful math sculptures like Bathsheba Grossmanmakes.

                              Topmod above is perfect for that πŸ˜‰
                              by me πŸ˜„

                              http://forums.polyloop.net/imagehosting/1964703b3c059111.jpg

                              By Jotero

                              http://www.jotero.com/bilder/topmod/soccer_ball_jotero2007.jpg

                              Wooow did you made does models? simply amazin.
                              can you share some tutotials?

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                              • brookefoxB Offline
                                brookefox
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                                Wonderful tool, Diggsey. Many thanks. Nice that folks are sharing their settings. I wish someone with the appropriate skills or not would chart up some many examples, something like the pic below, and/or list many equations to experiment with. I do not have those skills. I had modeled something like the intersecting sine waves not long ago manually... tch, tch.

                                surfacegen-collection-1.JPG

                                ~ Brooke

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                                • pilouP Offline
                                  pilou
                                  last edited by

                                  @unknownuser said:

                                  Wooow did you made does models? simply amazin.
                                  can you share some tutotials?

                                  All models are made with TopMod
                                  I have made the first πŸ˜‰
                                  I have made a little tut video β˜€
                                  (sorry in French but very visual)

                                  Else you will find some very cool tutorials videos here πŸ˜‰
                                  (explore the site)
                                  It's a very crazzy program! 😎
                                  By me (French UI too by me πŸ˜‰ Don't make renders inside Topmod (export as OBJ Render here in ZBrush)

                                  http://www.polyloop.net/imagehosting/19646f79a19764f7.jpg

                                  Frenchy Pilou
                                  Is beautiful that please without concept!
                                  My Little site :)

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                                  • brookefoxB Offline
                                    brookefox
                                    last edited by

                                    Model collection (as shown in previous post) for for you to add your model/s to.

                                    surfacegen plugin models.skp

                                    surfacegen-collection-1.JPG

                                    ~ Brooke

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                                      Schaefer
                                      last edited by

                                      hello! i need that for mathematical- educational purposes for sketchup make 2017 - or a similiar plugin, updatet to 2018. Does anybody have some information, where to get it. i couldn't find thomtoms surfacegen in the sketchucation-library. thanks, r. schaefer

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                                      • TIGT Offline
                                        TIG Moderator
                                        last edited by

                                        It's in the PluginStore, made into an RBZ format download.
                                        https://sketchucation.com/pluginstore?pln=surfacegen
                                        It's not Thomthom's, it's Diggsey's plugin...
                                        It'll probably still work in v2018 - however, because it's old and unsigned, you'll need to set the SketchUp Extension Manager's Loading Policy to "Unrestricted"...

                                        TIG

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