Modlumi - Easy 3D modelling

[pixelcruncher]

Modlumi for Windows is out

Hi all,

The desktop version of Modlumi is now available for Windows. You can get it from the big button on modlumi.com, or directly here: modlumi.com/download/latest/windows. It's free.

What the desktop app adds over the browser preview

• Save models straight to disk (the browser only downloads a .modl file, and you lose your session when you reload)
• File → Save to Image…
• Plugins and scripting, with a script console and an editor
• Touch controls

Plugins

The desktop app comes with ten built-in plugins: Shapes, Clean Up, Solid Inspector, True Bend, Modify Solids, Select Similar, Levels, Face Area, and OBJ and STL export. You can turn each one on or off in Extensions → Manage Extensions. To write your own, use JavaScript or TypeScript. The plugin guide explains how, and the source of the built-in plugins is there to learn from.

@pilou, to answer your questions: the installer is about 5 MB. SketchUp .rbz extensions won't run because Modlumi plugins are written in JS/TS rather than Ruby.

Not on Windows? The browser preview at modlumi.com still has the same modeling tools. There's no Linux download yet, and macOS will come later.

If you find bugs, please use Help → Report a Bug or Send Feedback… and attach modlumi.log, or post them here as usual. @Krass, I'm looking at the edge artifacts you saw on desktop.

Cheers,
Thomas

[pixelcruncher]

I also put the plugin examples on github: https://github.com/thomasloockx/modlumi-plugins

[pilou]

Many thanks for the infos !

[pilou]

You said 5 Megas for the Installer yes but the complete program installed is how Big ( 500 Meg ...? )

[pilou]

Request
In the Move, Rotate, Size + CTRL + * / % ...+ a "randomize" for give some fun variations in the result?

Not yet on the volume itself... but...

[pixelcruncher]

@pilou still about 5 meg, it’s a small program. It doesn’t download a ton of stuff from the web.

[pixelcruncher]

Well it doesn’t download anything for the installation. Its just one exe.

[ntxdave]

Another of my silly questions: How do you draw/show/hide guides?

Still another one: I want to draw a rectangle with each of the 4 corners rounded (same size). What is the best way to do that. In SketchUp, when you do that, you can double click in each of the other corners and it will repeat the first corner.

[pixelcruncher]

Modlumi 0.13 is out: fixes for your latest reports

Modlumi 0.13 is live at https://modlumi.com/app. Thanks @pilou for the reports and the files, they made these easy to track down.

Combine Solids through curves

Union, Subtract, Intersect, Trim, Split and Outer Shell now work when the cut goes through an arc or a curve, like the two half-round volumes in your 2volumes file. Before, they all failed with "the result would not be a closed solid".

Redrawn sides stay whole

Erasing a line drawn across a rectangle together with the side it touched, then drawing that side again, now gives one edge. The rectangle is back to four sides.

Eraser on groups and components

Pointing the Eraser at an edge or guide inside a closed group or component now erases the whole object. To erase a single guide or edge, open the group first. That's why the guides in your 2pp file looked impossible to delete: they were inside groups.

@Krass, I'm still looking at the edge artifacts you saw on the desktop version.

Full release notes, now also listing 0.11 and 0.12: https://modlumi.com/docs/release-notes/

As always, bug reports and ideas are welcome here or through the feedback button in the app.

[pilou]

@ntxdave
Just 2 things to know for draw Help Lines guide (for the moment!
You must click (select) a segment yet existing for a line .
So Draw a line
Select it Press T , Click the midle of the line for exemple, and drag , type 5 as 5 units you must ha a line drawn at 5 units!
For Point guide it's the same but your first click must at a corrner of 2 segments!

[pixelcruncher]

@Krass, could you send me the Mercedes model from your videos? Attaching the .skp here is fine, or send it through Help › Send Feedback… in the app.

I can't reproduce the edge artifacts on Linux with our own car model, and the desktop app on Windows draws through Direct3D, which handles one edge depth offset differently. With your model I can test a fix before the next desktop build. If you can, also mention your graphics card.

Thanks!

[pilou]

@pixelcruncher
Combine 2 curvated solid perfect! Ok
Right Click on them / Erase ! OK perfect ! But why we can't do that also directly inside the OutLiner ???

If the exe on desktop version is only 5 megas i wiil download it!
Like this i will can test some script by a friend, alas not by me because scripting is out from me now!
(except if i use Ai ... but that will be another story!
modeling bugs first!

[pilou]

Excellent the Desktop version installed is 15 megas so I have it also!
And i see that is the same number 0.13
That will be always the same ?

[pixelcruncher]

@pilou Okay 15MB, it was heavily zipped then - I will try to keep the file size under control, and also ship it as a single exe file. But it might grow over time.

[pilou]

Yes but it's reasonable for old Latop! :=)
Anyway that works fine!

[pilou]

Silly question but seems yes !
We can lunch several versions in the same time! For my test only 2 !
But the Ctrl + C, Ctrl + V seems not working betweem them !

[pixelcruncher]

But the Ctrl + C, Ctrl + V seems not working betweem them !

Yeah That's a good idea. Do you want it to copy the selected geometry?

[pilou]

Yes on some programs you can make a simple Copy Paste!
I think only selected geometry will be first the more simple!
Like this you can make some test in the same time! (depending of course of the free memory available)
A Drag & Drop will be more comfortable! But a shortCut is cool too!

A Request : Right Click for recall the previous function... maybe yes existing in some ?

[Krass]

here is the car
@pixelcruncher C63+AMG+Coupe+W204+(1).skp

[Krass]

@pilou said:

Yes on some programs you can make a simple Copy Paste!

yes I use it everytime in the old SU