[Plugin] LSS Matrix

kirill2008 · 15 May 2012, 17:34

Seems you win your personal challenge!

Not yet... The current version has a lot of limitations and very unstable. It's not able to process complex geometry and even sequence of user actions matters (it is necessary to make goup, group copy, then launch 'LSS Matrix' dialog, then edit group and group copy contens, then refresh results). It is necessary to stick to such sequence, because 'LSS Matrix' numerates faces and edges inside initial and copy group after 'Apply' click to be able to track geometry changes properly later during refreshing.
Also it is necessary to edit group contents very carefully: if any face will be broken as a result of editing, then 'Scan' will fail to analyse such changes (entities count has to be equal in initial and copy groups).
So it is far from finish

pilou · 15 May 2012, 23:02

Courage!

guanjin · 20 May 2012, 17:26

@kirill2008 said:

Here is a demonstration of new LSS Matrix feature 'Scan for changes inside groups'.
[flash=640,360:7zkd1r1a]http://www.youtube.com/v/lfbb8gyH7BA?version=3&hl=ru_RU[/flash:7zkd1r1a]

It has a lot of limitations and it is unstable and is able to process only simple geometry for now... Anyway I decided to share this stage: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/44695539/lss_matrix/lss_matrix_1_1_alpha.zip

I am unable to download this file

unclex · 27 Dec 2012, 15:04

can not work with SketchyPhysics3
could u fix it?

plot-paris · 14 Jan 2013, 17:26

Hi Kirill,
absolutely magnificent plugin!
Are you still working on it? It is already tremendously powerful. But there are still so many cool possibilities

Like the smooth transition you already mentioned (in addition to the linear one as is the case today).

Or another one: right now if I understand it correctly, you can define up to three axes for the array (does make sense in a 3D-environment ).

However, I would very much like to see what one could to with several "key-frame"-groups along one axis (see image below). That would add a great deal of control to the tool (and unquestionably a great deal of work for you... a challenge!)

Anyway: Thank you very much for this great plugin. Its a lot of fun to play with!!!

pilou · 14 Jan 2013, 19:12

Seems you can make that in 2 pass no ?
Green Yellow
then
Yellow red

plot-paris · 15 Jan 2013, 09:12

@unknownuser said:

Seems you can make that in 2 pass no ?

Yes indeed you can. In fact, thats how I did this mock-up. But imagine you just needed two clicks...

And if you have two or more different key-frame groups in more than one direction... then it gets really tricky...

pilou · 15 Jan 2013, 11:19

Yes but so there is no limit !
Why not 10 or 100 inbetweeners modules !:)

niko_monkey · 1 Sept 2018, 13:40

Hi everyone,

I just download LSS Matrix. Im using a Sketchup 2017 and it just does not work. It doesnt let me set up any copy or original...

Any help??

Arc · 9 Sept 2018, 02:48

This plugin was dead.

Arc · 9 Sept 2018, 02:50

This plugin was dead.

juju · 9 Sept 2018, 16:29

@niko_monkey said:

Hi everyone,

I just download LSS Matrix. Im using a Sketchup 2017 and it just does not work. It doesnt let me set up any copy or original...

Any help??

@arc said:

This plugin was dead.

If you consider the last active post, before the quoted above, is from 2013 and take a look on Extension Warehouse the last release of LSS Matrix was 20 May 2013 and only listed as compatible with SU version 2013 last.

My guess is if you're using anything newer than SU2013 you shouldn't expect this to work at this time.

crayonal · 11 Dec 2018, 07:25

Why, this plugin was really great, and your work there helped many people...

kidus firew · 13 Mar 2019, 06:36

hey whats up am new here and my lss matrix isnt working properly after i group the first model and copied it when i try to select after i click the initial pick button it wont select it whats the problem plz help me thank you

Jade272 · 11 Nov 2019, 10:24

daer all

any idea why I can't pick the the initial instance , and when the matrix Dialogue the green tick never exit
[img]file:///C:/Users/jade/Desktop/Capture.JPG[/img]

Dave R · 11 Nov 2019, 12:26

@jade272 said:

any idea why I can't pick the the initial instance...

Your profile says you are using SketchUp 2017. Read the first paragraph of the original post.

@kirill2008 said:

Small Announcement (29-Jan-2017)
Note that currently there are no plans to continue development of LSS Matrix extension so it is highly recommended look for some other alternatives, which have a similar functionality and compatible with recent versions of SketchUp.

This extension hasn't been updated since 2013 so it shouldn't be surprising that it doesn't work in SU2017.

By the way, in order for your image to show you need to upload it. It doesn't work to link to a file on your computer.

Jade272 · 11 Nov 2019, 18:31

ANYONE CAN HELP, THIS PUGIN SOUND GREAT BUT CAN'T PICK THE INITIAL INSTANCE, THERE ARE NO GREEN BOXES OR GREEN TICK AS THE DEMO SHOW? CAN PICK THE I ANY OBJECT.

Dave R · 11 Nov 2019, 19:12

As the author wrote in his first post, and I repeated in my previous reply to you, this extension is not updated to work in later versions of SketchUp. As the author said, you should find another extension.

pyroluna · 2 Mar 2020, 09:48

is there any up-to-date plugin that has similar functionality to this one?

pilou · 7 Mar 2020, 22:38

Take a look to TGI3D Amorph (free) or use an old version of Sketchup!