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    ⚠️ Important | Libfredo 15.6b introduces important bugfixes for Fredo's Extensions Update

    Parametric Modeling - development?

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      Jorgensen @samuel_t
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      @samuel_t ah ok - Thanks πŸ™‚

      sketchup pro 2016 16.1.1449 64 bit | windows 10 pro | i7-3770k @3.5 GHz | 16gb ram | gtx 780 ti / gtx 980 ti | nvidia driver 368.39

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        Jorgensen @samuel_t
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        @samuel_t

        Hi Samuel

        Would it be possible to use nodes, to control materials, or don’t you have access to the materials?

        Jorgensen

        sketchup pro 2016 16.1.1449 64 bit | windows 10 pro | i7-3770k @3.5 GHz | 16gb ram | gtx 780 ti / gtx 980 ti | nvidia driver 368.39

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          samuel_t @Jorgensen
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          Hi @Jorgensen,

          What exactly do you mean by "to control materials"?

          In the Nodes Editor, it is possible to apply a material to the group resulting from a Draw pyramid node, for example.

          This material comes from the active model. If this parametric schema is then imported into another model which does not have this material, it is then substituted by a random color.

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            Jorgensen @samuel_t
            last edited by Jorgensen

            Hi @samuel_t

            MATERIAL NODE
            What I meant was, if it is possible to handle material parameters like

            • color
            • opacity
            • image source (path)
            • image size x
            • image size y

            The use for this would be, creating a material, and two or more bitmap nodes, this way is fast to change and test different material settings, eg. by switching between the two bitmap nodes.

            SLIDER NODE
            A slider node for fast and easy way to change values, and seem them change without having to think about a number - just watching the result.

            COMPONENTS
            Would it possible to use components instead of groups? it would be very usefull to copy components around, and when you edit one, you edit all.
            It might allready be possible, and I have just overlooked it.

            An example - a simple hotel - I created one component, use nodes to construct the hotel and BAM. It could hotel rooms, as components, that can be copied around.
            Then it's easy to add details and update the whole project in one operation.

            In the example I created a component, the single one on the left. I then used Node editor to copy the component, but they become groups, and when I change the first component - nothing happens - of cource.

            Could be interresting πŸ™‚
            Jorgensen

            10.JPG 20.jpg

            sketchup pro 2016 16.1.1449 64 bit | windows 10 pro | i7-3770k @3.5 GHz | 16gb ram | gtx 780 ti / gtx 980 ti | nvidia driver 368.39

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              Jorgensen @Jorgensen
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              @samuel_t components? 😊

              sketchup pro 2016 16.1.1449 64 bit | windows 10 pro | i7-3770k @3.5 GHz | 16gb ram | gtx 780 ti / gtx 980 ti | nvidia driver 368.39

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                Jorgensen @Jorgensen
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                @samuel_t bump πŸ™‚

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                  Jorgensen
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                  I hope that you, or others, pickup and continue to develop this plugin / feature - as I think is has a huge potential πŸ™‚

                  sketchup pro 2016 16.1.1449 64 bit | windows 10 pro | i7-3770k @3.5 GHz | 16gb ram | gtx 780 ti / gtx 980 ti | nvidia driver 368.39

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                    L i am
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                    I am having a play with it, not got my head around it yet, but my initial thoughts are it looks quite powerful

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                      L i am
                      last edited by L i am

                      I do not know much about AI but what about asking AI to work on it. Please note the short conversation I had with Ruby.png AI

                      Amazing

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                        L i am
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                        and this oneruby2.jpg

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                          samuel_t
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                          @Jorgensen, @L-i-am Thanks for your interest in this plugin πŸ™‚ I haven't abandoned it... I just have too many projects in progress πŸ˜“

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