Plugin to make a hole in a group?

mitcorb

Just a question:
Does the punching shape have to address a face? Or, in the examples above can the punch start midway down a wall. Why? No reason. I just saw that the cutter can turn as it changes position. And I saw it align on an edge/corner as if resolving the normals for the adjacent faces.

fredo6

@mitcorb said:

Just a question:
Does the punching shape have to address a face? Or, in the examples above can the punch start midway down a wall. Why? No reason. I just saw that the cutter can turn as it changes position. And I saw it align on an edge/corner as if resolving the normals for the adjacent faces.

VisuHole is based on a projection plane (I may address draping later on).

So the plane is determined, in a similar way as MoveAlong, that is:

based on picked object (face, edge, vertex)
you can lock an axis plane
you can pick and force a plane from the model

VisuHole - Early Stage 4.gif

Fredo

mitcorb

Excellent work, sir!!

dedmin

There are enough Fredos plugins to make a standalone application!

Bob James

@dedmin said:

There are enough Fredos plugins to make a standalone application!

Interesting. That thought occurred to me even before this new marvel. I've already replaced shortcuts to lines, moves, etc to Fredo versions.

FredoSketch.

tt_su

@dedmin said:

There are enough Fredos plugins to make a standalone application!

Fred'Up?

fredo6

@bob james said:

FredoSketch.

@tt_su said:

Fred'Up?

Too much honor!
It's when I write these plugins that I realize how rich is Sketchup, and the incredible amount of work that has been put in it over time.

Fredo

KrisM

Well deserved honour in my opinion.
KrisM

jolran

@Sam
@unknownuser said:

With Fredo on the job, I can stop wasting my time!!!!!!!!

Copy that! As Jack Bauer use to say.

BTW, looking at the video the response time seams to be pretty good. Does it work well with denser geometry ?

How the h&#l do you do that ?

jolran

I meant Fredo's video about the stamp-boolean thing, double-sorry
I can see how that got misinterpreted.. My english is not fluid sometimes.

Watching your video again, Sam. I clearly see you do the same thing. So thanks for the code

You only have to do some fancy widgets now, and you are good to go!

fredo6

@jolran said:

I meant Fredo's video about the stamp-boolean thing

Which video do you refer to exactly?

Fredo

jolran

Ah, now I see. It wasent a video. Last "Gif", which seams to have cause some confusion from my part.

I say no more...

sdmitch

never mind

Whaat

Looking awesome, Fredo! Very exciting stuff! You know, a lot of other plugins might want to take advantage of the core features of your plugin.

Is there any chance you could develop a library and API for the hole drilling functions?

Very excited about the possibilities of this new tool...

fredo6

@whaat said:

Is there any chance you could develop a library and API for the hole drilling functions?

Dale,

Thanks for your encouragements, I appreciate.

The algorithm is not that complex actually (the GUI is more time-consuming), but I have isolated it anyway in a separate class with no GUI dependencies. Note that the hole shape itself is specified as another class, called Stencil, which allows to aggregate several faces to build the hole pattern.

Fredo