Architectural plugins

Deanby7 · 1 Jul 2016, 23:51

With the help of some forum members here, I have written some plugins for architectural modelling, namely:-

External wall opener - after placing window/door component on a wall, plugin creates reveals and moves window/door component into the wall.

Internal wall opener - after placing door component on a wall, plugin creates a frame and architrave and moves door into frame.

Staircase builder - creates staircase steps/risers/stringers from user parameters such as floor to floor height, stair width, number of steps in each flight (max 3), turn type (ie landing or winders). This is useful for trying out various staircase configurations. The stringers are a bit naff, and there are no balustrades etc.

I've had fun writing these, and I find them handy, but wondered if they might be useful to anyone here.

I'm happy to share these, and if anyone wants to improve them, I'd be happy receive comments/suggestions. They seem to work ok for me on SU8.

Let me know if anyone is interested.

pilou · 2 Jul 2016, 01:08

Where can we load them ?

Deanby7 · 2 Jul 2016, 16:22

Here is a video of the staircase builder......

pilou · 2 Jul 2016, 17:15

We are waiting the "Circular!"

pilou · 2 Jul 2016, 17:18

I have found it!

pilou · 2 Jul 2016, 18:11

Here the Kubity qrVT (PDF linked till 1 october 2016) !

You can change the day's light!
For embeded on the forum take the last part of the link + 2 balises!

[kubity]0jdN7z[/kubity]

so
[kubity:1wbs5myt]0jdN7z[/kubity:1wbs5myt]

On modern sites or other forum something like this!

<iframe width="800" height="450" frameborder="0" src="https://qrvr.io/embed/0jdN7z"></iframe>

In the past we had that!

stair_kubity.zip

Deanby7 · 2 Jul 2016, 22:10

A video of the external wall opener plugin:-

Deanby7 · 2 Jul 2016, 22:11

A video of the internal wall opener/door frame maker plugin:-

Frederik · 3 Jul 2016, 07:56

They look interesting, but also fairly simple...

I.e. for the External wall opener, I'd prefer to have the plugin making the door or the window in one go...

@deanby7 said:

They seem to work ok for me on SU8.

Why on earth are you using such an old version of SU...?
I'm only interested in plugins working with latest SU builds - and 64 bit...

Deanby7 · 3 Jul 2016, 09:17

The wall opening plugins do work with SU2016. They provide a way of inserting any door or window component so long as they are rectangular!

pilou · 3 Jul 2016, 10:08

And even better you can make the convertion in local inside SketchUp!

qrVR Exporter v1.0.0!
http://sketchucation.com/pluginstore?pln=kubity free

That makes a PDF with a link and the magic square!

So

[kubity:lqmi19fw]SxNTIx[/kubity:lqmi19fw]

Deanby7 · 3 Jul 2016, 18:16

My plugins have been tested and work with SketchUp 2016.

Deanby7 · 3 Jul 2016, 18:43

Here are the plugins mentioned above. Again, thanks to sdmitch, TIG, Dan Rathbun and others for help with these.

db1stairbuilder.rb

db3windowwallopen.rb

db4internaldooropen.rb

dbArchitecturalPlugins-ReadMe.txt

faust07 · 3 Jul 2016, 19:10

Cool!

Pixero · 4 Jul 2016, 06:37

Thanks!

db11 · 4 Jul 2016, 13:37

These look interesting. Downloaded the wall and door open tools and will try them out.

Thanks for sharing.

Deanby7 · 11 Jul 2016, 21:34

Staircase builder has been revised and some bugs fixed. Try it out!

db1stairbuilder.rb