[Plugin] GKWare Door Maker

Garry K

Kristoff is correct. That is the range for the pricing for the Door Maker Pro.
Here is the Input Box for Door Maker Pro.

If anyone has suggestions or comments - now is the time to start talking.

Door Maker Pro InputBox

Some InputBox terms

Krisidious

I can't think of anything I would add Garry...

unclebim

It all looks great.

Something about the materials though. The textures provided with the DoorMaker plugin so far are not seamless and . I made a quick seamless version of the images provided within the images subfolder in the .rbz file and you may find them attached. Some don't look good but the source texture file has too little of the wood grain. If you need some assistance with the textures I would be happy to help.

Besides the applied material's size is too large for the most of the materials.

One more issue: I am missing some style of the doors referring to your manual, what am I doing wrong:

images1.zip

images2.zip

Garry K

To get your missing doors it is actually quite simple.
All you need to do is adjust the thickness of the panel.

Change it to something like 6 mm. What the code does is for any panel that is 15 mm or thicker it brings the panel face flush with the stiles and rails. Any panel that is thinner than 15 mm it puts it behind the bead and drops the cove cutter (no panel raise).

And of course I would love to learn more about textures.

I pulled most of these from here:
http://www.fritz-kohl.de/en/preview-veneers.28.0.0.0.0.html

Here are a couple of other interesting places to look for wood grain patterns:
http://www.woodmagazine.com/materials-guide/lumber/wood-grain-textures/
http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtop ... lit=madhav
http://www.veneeronline.com/species.asp ... ory=lwdbdl

Perhaps you noticed the textures.txt file. It contains the name of the texture a coma and the length. So I'm assuming you want to play around with this number - I just set it to 36 for all textures.

The required _ver is because I used to carry vertical and horizontal patterns. I was able to drop the horizontal one but the _ver is still there for backwards compatibility.

Garry K

The pro version is in final testing. Here are some doors that can be made along with a sketchup file that I've used to create these profiles.

Keep the geometry simple. Arcs are 3 to 5 segments. Straight lines are not divided.
When you are happy with a profile just select the face and click the new "Add Profile" button. Select which profile group and give the new profile a name. We simply add a txt file into 1 of the 4 profile group folders.

The next time you run Door Maker Pro - the profile will be in the drop down list.

Here is the contents of gkware_doormaker/panel profiles/Ogee.txt

0.000000,0.342090
0.000000,0.000000
1.181102,0.000000
1.181102,0.078740
1.069553,0.087210
0.960561,0.112427
0.856627,0.153812
0.760133,0.210415
0.663639,0.267019
0.559705,0.308404
0.450714,0.333620
0.339164,0.342090

New Doors Pro version

Door Profiles

Door Profiles sketchup file

Krisidious

Awesome Garry...

Garry K

Door Maker Pro lets you build passage doors. Just set the Stile Width to say 4-5 inches and set the Bottom Rail to 8-10 inches. You can set it to what ever you want.

Some of these examples make use of the new "Glass Combo" choice where the Top Panel is glass and the other panel(s) are your door material.

Also notice that doors that are >= 30 mm thick have the panel raise and moulding on both sides.

Door Section

Passage Doors

marsahl

Thanks for the great plugin!!
I have created the German Language file.

German language file

marsahl

Hey Garry, my translation file is German language, not Italien...

Garry K

Sorry - I knew that - it was a copy and paste error !!

Garry K

Here is the new web interface for the Door Maker plugin.
I am looking for a few testers for Mac and Windows 8.
There are a few advantages that web dialog brings to the plugin.

Web dialog takes less room.
Open help file directly from web dialog.
A few of the inputs now have tool tips (captions in red).
Options now grouped a bit more intuitively.
Some options now interact with each other. Change handle location and 'Click Action' automatically changes. You can override the 'Click Action' when you need to.

door web interface.PNG

BdhSdfCr

Just downloaded and installed Doormaker using the Sketchucation plugin store auto install and the dialog box will not come up. (Running SkecthUp 2014 on a a Mac OSX 10.9.4). Uninstalled the plugin and did a direct download from the Sketchucation website and installed the plugin through the preferences window and have the same problem. Here is what the dialog box reports when using auto install...

gkware_doormaker_v1.0.30
AutoInstall Finished.
Using Main Plugins Folder.
/Users/b-d-hayes/Library/Application Support/SketchUp 2014/SketchUp/Plugins

I can select Door Maker from the Plugins menu and the sketch up script tells me to "select first corner of door" I do this then select a diagonal point and I get what looks like an arched top panel only, no styles or rails.

Garry K

Can you start a new session and run be ruby console prior to running the door maker? Also, I do write information to the gkware_doormaker\config folder - so you need to have rights to that folder.

I don't have mavericks - I run Windows 7 OS. I can give you a stripped down version that just pops up a web dialog box if that will help figure out the problem.

BdhSdfCr

@garry k said:

Can you start a new session and run be ruby console prior to running the door maker? Also, I do write information to the gkware_doormaker\config folder - so you need to have rights to that folder.

I don't have mavericks - I run Windows 7 OS. I can give you a stripped down version that just pops up a web dialog box if that will help figure out the problem.

Here is what the Ruby Console reports when I click on DoorMaker...

Error: #<ArgumentError: wrong number of arguments (2 for 4..5)>
/users/b-d-hayes/library/application support/sketchup 2014/sketchup/plugins/gkware_doormaker/license.rbs:34:in activate_license' /users/b-d-hayes/library/application support/sketchup 2014/sketchup/plugins/gkware_doormaker/doormaker.rbs:90:in activate'
/users/b-d-hayes/library/application support/sketchup 2014/sketchup/plugins/gkware_doormaker/doormaker.rbs:609:in select_tool' /users/b-d-hayes/library/application support/sketchup 2014/sketchup/plugins/gkware_doormaker/doormaker.rbs:609:in block in module:DoorMaker'
-e:1:in `call'

I'm logged in as administrator so I should have permissions for everything.

Garry K

Version 1.0.30 went out with 1 wrong package.
I have a new version 1.0.31 which corrects this.
Please try it and tell me if it solves your problem.

BdhSdfCr

@garry k said:

Version 1.0.30 went out with 1 wrong package.
I have a new version 1.0.31 which corrects this.
Please try it and tell me if it solves your problem.

Thank you Gary, 1.0.31 worked.

Garry K

I have a new version 1.0.33 that contains a number of new features.

Half Width Stiles - Make either the right or left stile half the width. Good for Bifolds
Second Handle - Places a mirrored copy of the handle on the back side of the door. Good for passage doors.
Wood Grain - Allows you to manage the direction of the grain for door and drawer panels.
Save and retrieve Named Style Sheets. Allows you to name any number of style sheets with specific door settings. For instance you could have a list such as

Bifold Doors
Passage Doors
Panel Raised Portland

Choices are virtually endless

This version will be available by Thursday Sep 4th

Garry K

New Door Maker plugin just about ready.
Added mitered doors. User defines their own frame profile.

You can optionally select the back edge of the groove at the same time as selecting the profile face.
Door Maker will use the information to build your doors.

Mitered Door Profile

Mitered Door

Krisidious

Is there an option to configure the number of vertices in the curves? on the door profiles?

Garry K

You have complete control over your own profiles. Make them however you wish.