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    • TIGT Offline
      TIG Moderator
      last edited by

      Be patient !
      How many perforations are you making ?
      If there are many hundreds it will take a looong time !
      Try it with a small number and see if it works then.
      If, before running the tool, you open the Ruby Console do you get any error messages in it ?
      Works fine for me and many others...
      You do have SUp v8M2 ?
      Must be something you are doing ??

      TIG

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        SUFractal
        last edited by

        @tig said:

        Be patient !
        How many perforations are you making ?
        If there are many hundreds it will take a looong time !
        Try it with a small number and see if it works then.
        If, before running the tool, you open the Ruby Console do you get any error messages in it ?
        Works fine for me and many others...
        You do have SUp v8M2 ?
        Must be something you are doing ??

        TIG:

        No error message in ruby console prior to tool. Running current version (you reminded me to upgrade remember?) of SU. Trying default setting that pops up. 30+ minutes later and the spinning wheel of death remains. Am I doing anything wrong?

        BTW ... the previous version (w/o the 3-sided option) seems to work fine.


        TIG.jpg

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        • TIGT Offline
          TIG Moderator
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          Try with a 4" cube it'd take a fraction of the time! [with ~125+ perforations, each with 8 faces etc]
          This one took ~2 minutes.Capture4.PNG
          I replicated your 8" cube on my PC and it eventually made it in ~150 minutes ๐Ÿ˜ฒ .
          There are ~729+ perforations, each with 8 faces etc... It all adds up...
          So it is not just 10x slower, because the more entities you add to a context the slower Sketchup runs disproportionately... each extra step adds exponentially, time-wise.

          I think you don't need so many holes ???

          If you open Task Manager when running a looooong process you will see that Sketchup is still working.
          It's just taking a-g-e-s to process all of the needed geometry...

          In passing... please adjust your default Template's, Model Info > Units to show some decimal inches !

          TIG

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          • S Offline
            SUFractal
            last edited by

            @tig said:

            Try with a 4" cube it'd take a fraction of the time! [with ~125+ perforations, each with 8 faces etc]
            This one took ~2 minutes.[attachment=0:97y792mn]<!-- ia0 -->Capture4.PNG<!-- ia0 -->[/attachment:97y792mn]
            I replicated your 8" cube on my PC and it eventually made it in ~150 minutes ๐Ÿ˜ฒ .
            There are ~729+ perforations, each with 8 faces etc... It all adds up...
            So it is not just 10x slower, because the more entities you add to a context the slower Sketchup runs disproportionately... each extra step adds exponentially, time-wise.

            I think you don't need so many holes ???

            If you open Task Manager when running a looooong process you will see that Sketchup is still working.
            It's just taking a-g-e-s to process all of the needed geometry...

            In passing... please adjust your default Template's, Model Info > Units to show some decimal inches !

            4" cube with simple perforation offers no change in operation.
            I'll continue to work in the units I need, thanks.

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            • guanjinG Offline
              guanjin
              last edited by

              Complex point of the porous,the generation process is very slow.
              fengxiang.gif

              I come from China, is to learn

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              • TIGT Offline
                TIG Moderator
                last edited by

                Guanjin

                The more geometry there is the slower the processing.
                It's inevitable. ๐Ÿ˜•
                Set it running and make some tea...

                TIG

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                • guanjinG Offline
                  guanjin
                  last edited by

                  @tig said:

                  Guanjin

                  The more geometry there is the slower the processing.
                  It's inevitable. ๐Ÿ˜•
                  Set it running an make some tea...

                  Thank you of TIG: you have worked hard, so many good tools for free use, you are great! ๐Ÿ‘ ๐Ÿ‘

                  I come from China, is to learn

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                  • EscapeArtistE Offline
                    EscapeArtist
                    last edited by

                    Awesome plugin. I have enjoyed using it so far, just experimenting.

                    I have noticed it will hang if I breathe wrong when applying a large number of perforations. I can't tab to another program, it will simply lock SU up.

                    An idea - would it be possible to add a "random" or mathematical feature to the spacing and size? I.e., between 1" to 1'? Add a rotation feature, i.e. each new unit rotates 10 degrees "X", 5 "Y" and 12 "Z" (all 3 axis?), and finally to use one's own model as the subtracted shape?

                    I realize this may be completely prohibitive by SU's single core use and the added complexity of any intersections, but just a thought. One could come up with almost fractal-like iterations in a medium with these options.

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                    • TIGT Offline
                      TIG Moderator
                      last edited by

                      It's almost certainly not 'hanging'.
                      It just takes ages to process and left to its own devices it will complete [eventually!]
                      Use the Task Manager to see that Sketchup is still processing away, although the screen has a 'white-out' - it's one of the quirks of SUp, when it's doing intensive calculations it looses the screen...
                      It does take a while to make all of the changes to the geometry - have patience...

                      I do have some recoding ideas to speed it up [a little], but testing takes time too...

                      TIG

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                      • I Offline
                        ideas_arte
                        last edited by

                        @tig said:

                        It is for v8-Pro only.

                        ๐Ÿ˜ณ "Free" users will have any chance of using this excellent tool?

                        Best regards!

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                        • TIGT Offline
                          TIG Moderator
                          last edited by

                          v8-Pro only because it uses several API techniques only accessible to Pro - sorry...

                          TIG

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                          • TIGT Offline
                            TIG Moderator
                            last edited by

                            Here's v1.3 http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?p=395061#p395061
                            The speed has been improved by ~4x.
                            The 'shell' version still takes ~4x longer than an un-shelled version because of the many extra steps required - but while ~15 minutes is worse that ~4minutes, it is better than ~60 minutes !!
                            Some minor glitches have also been fixed with 3-sided setting out centrally.

                            TIG

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                              ideas_arte
                              last edited by

                              @tig said:

                              sorry...

                              I understand. ๐Ÿ˜’ Thank you for all the good work. My best wishes for you

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                              • guanjinG Offline
                                guanjin
                                last edited by

                                @tig said:

                                Here's v1.3 http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?p=395061#p395061
                                The speed has been improved by ~4x.
                                The 'shell' version still takes ~4x longer than an un-shelled version because of the many extra steps required - but while ~15 minutes is worse that ~4minutes, it is better than ~60 minutes !!
                                Some minor glitches have also been fixed with 3-sided setting out centrally.

                                Thank of TIG: Speed โ€‹โ€‹is the key, to test the new fileใ€‚

                                I come from China, is to learn

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                                • D Offline
                                  dtolios
                                  last edited by

                                  Amazing work, great potential for this tool...
                                  Unfortunately is too slow for some of the complex shapes I had in mind, but I have trust that it will get better overtime (and yeah, my mobile i7 is not the fastest processor anyways...)

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                                  • charly2008C Offline
                                    charly2008
                                    last edited by

                                    TIG, you have once again created a surprising and promising tool. Thank you.


                                    2012-04-28_145245.jpg

                                    He who makes no mistakes, makes nothing

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                                    • S Offline
                                      SUFractal
                                      last edited by

                                      @charly2008 said:

                                      TIG, you have once again created a surprising and promising tool. Thank you.

                                      I'm curious as to how long it took you to create this?

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                                      • TIGT Offline
                                        TIG Moderator
                                        last edited by

                                        @sufractal said:

                                        @charly2008 said:

                                        TIG, you have once again created a surprising and promising tool. Thank you.

                                        I'm curious as to how long it took you to create this?
                                        I reproduced it [badly!]


                                        Capture.PNG

                                        TIG

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                                        • EscapeArtistE Offline
                                          EscapeArtist
                                          last edited by

                                          Just tried the updated version. Very nice, considerably faster!

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                                          • T Offline
                                            thraxx2
                                            last edited by

                                            Hi everyone, i just need a little help here, trying to model up something which I can't. So here it goes:

                                            1. I used honeyecomber to get the normal triangle tessellation. (first image)
                                            2. I want to bend it and shape it like this! (second image)

                                            I have been trying lots of ways i can think of but to no avail. thanks guys!

                                            Gerald.


                                            1.jpg


                                            2.jpg

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