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    • Z Offline
      zingis
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      nice! good luck and congrats on this amazing idea

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      • Rich O BrienR Offline
        Rich O Brien Moderator
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        You're gonna love this.....

        Download the free D'oh Book for SketchUp ๐Ÿ“–

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        • cottyC Offline
          cotty
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          @rich o brien said:

          You're gonna love this.....

          YES!^5

          my SketchUp gallery

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          • mitcorbM Offline
            mitcorb
            last edited by

            Watching that video, I was moved to tears. Perhaps it was the music. Perhaps it is the longing.
            I am definitely impressed both by the Plugin and the high quality video.

            I take the slow, deliberate approach in my aimless wandering.

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            • iichiversiiI Offline
              iichiversii
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              I want, I want, I want, I want, I want, I want, I want, I want, I want, I want, I want, I want, I want, I want, I want, I want, I want, I want, I want, I want, I want, I want, I want, I want, I want, I want, I want, I want, I want, I want, I want, I want, I want, I want, I want, I want, I want, I want, I want, I want, I want, I want, I want, I want, I want, I want, I want, I want................ need I say more ๐Ÿ˜†

              Bring on the Rain...

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              • thomthomT Offline
                thomthom
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                ๐Ÿ˜„

                Hope to show off more fun stuff once I've completed the rewrite of the core needed to implement the next set of tools and features. Ran into a little roadblock. ๐Ÿ˜•

                I feel quite bad for having teased people with this for two years! ๐Ÿ˜ž

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

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                • cottyC Offline
                  cotty
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                  @thomthom said:

                  I feel quite bad for having teased people with this for two years! ๐Ÿ˜ž

                  In German we say "Vorfreude ist die schรถnste Freude."
                  No idea if the google translation "Anticipation is half the fun." make sense?!

                  May the force be with you...

                  my SketchUp gallery

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                  • thomthomT Offline
                    thomthom
                    last edited by

                    At some point the anticipation isn't fun any more...

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

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                    • jolranJ Offline
                      jolran
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                      Wow, performance seems very quick. ๐Ÿ‘
                      May I ask, is it all Ruby?

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                      • thomthomT Offline
                        thomthom
                        last edited by

                        @jolran said:

                        Wow, performance seems very quick. ๐Ÿ‘
                        May I ask, is it all Ruby?

                        At the moment, yes. Though I expect that eventually some will need to be ported to C - like I did with Vertex Tools. But the biggest bottleneck is SketchUp itself - in that adding geometry gets slower the more geometry is already in the model. ๐Ÿ˜ž

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

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                        • iichiversiiI Offline
                          iichiversii
                          last edited by

                          Take your time TT, looking forward to the release, it will be an addition to vertex tools, keep up the great work ๐Ÿ‘

                          Bring on the Rain...

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                          • jolranJ Offline
                            jolran
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                            @unknownuser said:

                            But the biggest bottleneck is SketchUp itself - in that adding geometry gets slower the more geometry is already in the model

                            You mean the total amount of edges-faces in model or the subdividing procedure?

                            But still, all Ruby you say. That looks like you got some nice realtime response, thought you pulled some C extension on it already.

                            Hope you find time to do some more tutorials on C-extensions later then ๐Ÿ˜‰

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                            • C Offline
                              cuttingedge
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                              This should be at the very core of Sketchup's future release.. Amazing tool. Your'e brilliant Thomas!..I believe you could author a toolset like T-spline!

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                              • thomthomT Offline
                                thomthom
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                                @jolran said:

                                You mean the total amount of edges-faces in model or the subdividing procedure?

                                Yea, as SketchUp adds geometry it will check the added geometry for intersections and merging. Meaning that for every entity you add it will loop over every other entity. So it's not even a linear degradation of performance - it's just get horribly slow quickly. ๐Ÿ˜ž

                                @jolran said:

                                But still, all Ruby you say. That looks like you got some nice realtime response, thought you pulled some C extension on it already.

                                At the moment it's ok for the tests I do. I mean, it's not the biggest test models because I haven't made the tools to create anything useful. But once the tools are taking into place I need to focus on performance and the calculation of the bezier curves will most likely need to be ported to C.
                                At the moment I reduce the subdivisions when the tools are editing the mesh, for a faster response. But I might try to just draw virtual mesh with OpenGL draw commands, like I played around with in my Catmull-clart subdivision experiment: http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=333&t=47691&p=427968#p427968
                                Problem with that is there is no shading of the polygons, so you lose some feeling of the surface since it's just flat shading. Not sure how to do that in the end - kindof hopes for some amazing new feature in SketchUp that will make this easier.

                                @jolran said:

                                Hope you find time to do some more tutorials on C-extensions later then ๐Ÿ˜‰

                                I have some projects that need C Extensions, and usually when I venture off into unknown territories I need to write stuff down so I remember it. Tutorials, guides or blog posts are great for this. It forces you to think about what you think you know.

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

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                                • thomthomT Offline
                                  thomthom
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                                  @cuttingedge said:

                                  I believe you could author a toolset like T-spline!

                                  I don't know about that, least not yet. I'm struggling with the math of plain ol' bezier patches. T-Splines is some very clever stuff.

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

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                                  • J Offline
                                    jchau2007
                                    last edited by

                                    TT,
                                    Please update us as to where you are at with the Bezier Surfae tool development. We are all waiting on this one for a long time. Well let say you are crossing over two franchises, from Google to now Trimble.

                                    thanks,
                                    James

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                                    • thomthomT Offline
                                      thomthom
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                                      Yea, it's been taking a long time. It's been a much bigger project than I'd imagined.

                                      I've done, what I think, is most of the core. I've begun to work on the tools to manipulate the meshes now.

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

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                                      • D Offline
                                        dmatho
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                                        Where's the "Super Like" button? ๐Ÿ‘

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                                        • simon le bonS Offline
                                          simon le bon
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                                          @thomthom said:

                                          Yea, it's been taking a long time. It's been a much bigger project than I'd imagined.

                                          I've done, what I think, is most of the core. I've begun to work on the tools to manipulate the meshes now.

                                          "Courage" Thom! this is going to be a wonderful tool, an indispensable one. May be your "Chef d'oeuvre".

                                          ++simon

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                                          • thomthomT Offline
                                            thomthom
                                            last edited by

                                            I think it's best if I aim for a more basic first release - then do more continuous smaller updates evolving it.

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

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