[Plugin][$] Profile Builder 2

Pixero · 12 Jan 2016, 08:10

Here is a quick example of one case. There might be ways of doing some thing like this with different start and end components but I think this way would be easier for a lot of cases where you dont know the exact position until after its drawn.

eselick · 13 Jan 2016, 19:44

Hi
I'm just getting started with this amazing and wonderful plugin.

My problem is that when I save my assembly and then reuse it a new model, one of the components, #2 "Corner" in the original, is missing in the saved Assembly.

Here's the original Assembly dialog from the skp where I created it followed by the one that's loaded from the Assembly browser:

There are only 3 instead of 4 components in the second one.
Ideas?

Whaat · 14 Jan 2016, 17:55

@eselick said:

Hi
I'm just getting started with this amazing and wonderful plugin.

My problem is that when I save my assembly and then reuse it a new model, one of the components, #2 "Corner" in the original, is missing in the saved Assembly.

Here's the original Assembly dialog from the skp where I created it followed by the one that's loaded from the Assembly browser:

There are only 3 instead of 4 components in the second one.
Ideas?

Hello eselick,

Thank you for the report. Can you please do the following:

Open the Ruby Console and check for error messages when you save and load the assembly.
Send the assembly SKP file to mindsightstudios AT gmail DOT com for me to test

Thanks!

rv1974 · 15 Jan 2016, 15:03

I'm not sure in which topic it should be asked.. Luckily you're the author of both plugins (Profile Builder and Sketch UV.
I applied tube SketchUV's tube mapping to the curb generated with PB.
As you can see the vertical seams are distorted- they are not perpendicular to the 'U' path (I put the desired look above).
Could you advice how to get the desired result with the present tools?
And may be it's a good idea to have 'generate UV's' in the PB v.3?

Whaat · 15 Jan 2016, 15:13

@rv1974 said:

I'm not sure in which topic it should be asked.. Luckily you're the author of both plugins (Profile Builder and Sketch UV.
I applied tube SketchUV's tube mapping to the curb generated with PB.
As you can see the vertical seams are distorted- they are not perpendicular to the 'U' path (I put the desired look above).
Could you advice how to get the desired result with the present tools?
And may be it's a good idea to have 'generate UV's' in the PB v.3?

Hi rv1974,

Before you create the object using PB2, select the desired textured material from the drop-down list in PB2. Then, you should get your desired result automatically. SketchUV applies a different UV mapping scheme than PB2.

rv1974 · 15 Jan 2016, 15:51

Damn.. I actually use it but in this case it didn't popped up in my brain.
You should emphasize this amazing feature in you promotions!
Many thanks!

rv1974 · 16 Jan 2016, 11:42

Hm.. We've got problem on curved areas though.
PB applies the same texture coordinates on every segment.

rv1974 · 16 Jan 2016, 12:42

..Meanwhile I found partial workaround:
1.Select curved areas
2.Apply tube mapping
3.Triangulate to eliminate 100500 materials after export.

Could this issue be addressed in future?

Catalyst · 19 Jan 2016, 01:08

Thanks for this great plugin.
When using the assembler inside a component, the assembler does not respect the component's axes.
I'm using SU Pro 2016

eselick · 19 Jan 2016, 14:02

Hi Whaat

My assemblies are getting complicated and I wonder if there is any way to automatically combine them?

This would make it much easier to get amazing results since they could be created in a modular fashion and debugged and re-used more easily.

If this cannot be done, can you think of any way to get a report on the assembly that would contain a listing of components and the dialog attributes such as elevation etc.?

Thanks again for all the fun.
Elliot

Whaat · 19 Jan 2016, 18:16

@eselick said:

Hi Whaat

My assemblies are getting complicated and I wonder if there is any way to automatically combine them?

This would make it much easier to get amazing results since they could be created in a modular fashion and debugged and re-used more easily.

If this cannot be done, can you think of any way to get a report on the assembly that would contain a listing of components and the dialog attributes such as elevation etc.?

Thanks again for all the fun.
Elliot

Sorry, I am not understanding what you mean by 'combine them'. can you elaborate?

eselick · 20 Jan 2016, 03:46

Hi Whaat

By combining I mean adding two pre-existing assemblies together. These would be assemblies that had been created to be used together.

I just made a combination exterior siding and stud wall. I dumped the siding assembly into a model where the wall assembly was open. I then added profiles and components from the siding assembly in the model to the wall assembly. I used eye dropper tool which did save some time.

But I'm lazy and would have preferred to the use an eyedropper like tool with a "+" symbol that would have just "combined" the second assembly into the first with one click. This would have saved me some quite a bit of work and been guaranteed to be error-free.

Hope that explains it

Elliot

pilou · 20 Jan 2016, 11:34

French Manual of Profil Builder 2!

TBoy · 30 Jan 2016, 08:31

When I open library folder, only last row of profiles can be selected, no matter how long is the table of thumbnails-only last row. Anybody to tell me how to resolve this ?
Trial version installed on 64 bit Windows8.1, same on Windows 10-64 bit.

Whaat · 2 Feb 2016, 17:53

@tboy said:

When I open library folder, only last row of profiles can be selected, no matter how long is the table of thumbnails-only last row. Anybody to tell me how to resolve this ?
Trial version installed on 64 bit Windows8.1, same on Windows 10-64 bit.

Hi,

That is a strange report. Can you please open the Ruby Console Window (Window->Ruby Console) and then try to select the profile thumbnails in the upper rows. Then, let me know if you see any error messages.

Also, could you please ZIP your library folder and send to me for testing? My email address can be found here (see Customer Support):
http://extensions.sketchup.com/en/content/profile-builder-2

Thanks!

optimaforever · 4 Feb 2016, 22:03

Hello whaat,

Do you think there's a way to program PB to do something like this?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7vshlm06EE
It's book manager for 3dsmax; it work with selections of polys but in PB it could be replaced by smart paths.
Is there a way to random seed components inside an assembly?

TBoy · 11 Feb 2016, 16:05

@tboy said:

When I open library folder, only last row of profiles can be selected, no matter how long is the table of thumbnails-only last row. Anybody to tell me how to resolve this ?
Trial version installed on 64 bit Windows8.1, same on Windows 10-64 bit.

Hellow whaat,
I found the reason - I was testing on some kind of portable version of SkethcUp.
In installed Sketchup everything is OK.
As a new user I'm testing a lot of plugins. ProfileBuilder2 is one of the best (possibly most useful). Professionally made, adding additional functionality to SketchUp. Congratulations for your work.

optimaforever · 1 Mar 2016, 15:42

Hello Dale,

To create an assembly for this bench, is there a way to extrude a multi-profile for the wooden lattice (a profile composed of several discrete surfaces, not linked between them) or have I to add x multiples of the same square profile each moved and rotated accordingly to get the complete shape?

Thanks in advance,

optimaforever · 1 Mar 2016, 17:57

Ok. done.
Yet I'd like to have an option to randomize UV tiling without having to group all the profiles, explode them and use Julia's UV depatternize script...

It took me a while to get the positioning of each profile right.
it has to be done manually.
I'd have liked to have the possibility to place the profiles along a predefined shape (spline) with the option of aligning the profile along the shape, and parametric interdistance.

It would be cool to have the possibility of interrupting the profiles (in the case of this bench, I'll have to cut the profiles with su4you's incredible slice to create some realistic lengths (there is no manufacturer who can make wooden profile in that shape and that length)

Whaat · 4 Mar 2016, 03:47

@optimaforever said:

Ok. done.
Yet I'd like to have an option to randomize UV tiling without having to group all the profiles, explode them and use Julia's UV depatternize script...

It took me a while to get the positioning of each profile right.
it has to be done manually.
I'd have liked to have the possibility to place the profiles along a predefined shape (spline) with the option of aligning the profile along the shape, and parametric interdistance.

It would be cool to have the possibility of interrupting the profiles (in the case of this bench, I'll have to cut the profiles with su4you's incredible slice to create some realistic lengths (there is no manufacturer who can make wooden profile in that shape and that length)

Nice work! Thanks for the suggestions!