[Plugin] SliceModeler v1.3 released!

thomthom

@ed- said:

Can someone help to find the 1.4 version?

This link:

http://ideablob.com/ideas/4237-Sliceform-models-rock-

where download the script for free is gone.

Thanks in advance.

You can download it free from this site. But I've never heard of v1.4.

TIG

The 'free' v1.3 is here, in the first post in this thread. However, v1.4 is only available here http://www.public-art-international.com/catalog/product_info.php/products_id/200/language/en [which is also linked on that page] - where you are 'encouraged' to make a donation...

xrok1

"encouraged"? you can't download without a donation!
unless someone has a copy of 1.4 they'd like to post here?

Gaieus

Well, if it is "sold" for a compulsory donation there, please, do NOT upload a "pirated" version here. Everyone has the right to sell a plugin and define where it can be downloaded from.

Ed-

You're right, but in this way you don't make a donation you buy it and the donation is misleading.

Also i heard about long time replies from the developer after users have bought it.

Anyway it was free before the link passed away.

TIG

Why not just use the free v1.3 ? If you don't want to get v1.4. I don't know what extra functionality you get with it by 'giving' a donation [i.e. payment].
OR if you don't need the slot-making capability then just use my 'Slicer' Tool - that has always been free and on which SliceModeller is heavily* based [*i.e. its author has just copied most of my code verbatim, I even advised during the early stages, not realising it'd become 'commercialised'... but am I bitter ? ]

TIG

@xrok1 said:

Tig, why not add slotting to yours?

Life is too short to stuff a mushroom...

xrok1

Tig, why not add slotting to yours?
i'm sure a lot of users including myself would very much appreciate it, both for the usefulness and for the irony

Ed-

Hi Tig, I need the slots and I'm using the 1.3.
I also installed your plugin.

Thanks for your works!

Best

mat_kinotek

Hello guys, Im having the same issues, I;m on version 1.4
mostly of the time i got "uncompleted slices", other time it seems working but at the end instead of having the slice numbered and cutted, I just have a vertical plane intersacating one of the Y slice.
ANyone had encountered the same problems? or do you know some other alternative to slice with sketchup (or cinema 4d)?
Thanks and all the Best,
/m

mat_kinotek

@asteronimo said:

Based on TIG's Slicer script I wrote a plugin that slices a solid 3d model along 2 axes, f.i. an X- and a Z-axis.
You can enter separate parameters for each axis. After the slices have been created it calculates the slots for each intersection which allow the cross sections to interlock in an open cell framework, like an egg crate. This process is used in rapid prototyping and can be used to create molds for casting or forming parts.

These are sometimes called slicemodels or sliceforms.
There is a nice book about this subject, "Surfaces: Explorations with Sliceforms" by John Sharp.

The script can slice complex forms like a cone, a torus or a 'C' correctly.

Tested with SU 6 on Mac OSX.

Version history:
1.0 - First working version based on TIG's Slicer script but without transforming the slots to flattened slices.
1.1 - Solved bug in slot position calculation
1.2 - Using additional slices (3 for each intersection) to calculate slot holes. Improved parameter dialog and transforming slots to flattened slices.
1.3 - Discovered that text labels add size to to bounding box dimensions. Corrected text labeling. Corrected contour cutting. Slices now keep their attributed thickness. Improved code for slicing in Z-direction and spreading the flattened slices.

IF YOU FIND THIS SCRIPT AT ALL USEFUL I'D WELCOME YOUR DONATION AT:
http://www.public-art-international.com/catalog/product_info.php/products_id/200/language/en
(newer version can be found there)

asteronimo

asteronimo,
I'm using your plug-in, and after many trials and errors I found a way to slice my (fairly comlplex) model, but the plugin wouldnt go on and find the cuttings between the slices. It says "FINDING EDGES OF INTERSECTIONS" and then a verical surface appear. I'm afraid is a bug, cause with other models it works.
Is this really a bug? or am i doing something wrong?
thanks,
MC

pilou

@Tig : your maxim is very funny!

La vie est trop courte, Proust est trop long! Life is too short,(Marcel) Proust is too long. Anatole France

La vie est trop courte pour les échecs. Life is too short for chess. Lord Henry James Byron

TIG

@unknownuser said:

@Tig : your maxim is very funny!

La vie est trop courte, Proust est trop long! Life is too short,(Marcel) Proust is too long. Anatole France

La vie est trop courte pour les échecs. Life is too short for chess. Lord Henry James Byron

Mine is from Shirley Conran - ex-wife of Sir Terence Conran [& mum of Japser ?] - in her 70s book 'Superwoman'...

CAD Addict

I just created this quick video while testing the Plugin. Seems to be very useful for model making of complex curved shapes

http://vimeo.com/14578877

pilou

Inspiration:
A radial Slicer?

Or at last a slicer from any profil? (not necessarily radial)
previous profil will be that

zbuckholz

Hello, I recently obtained a copy of SliceModeler from PAI and I am looking forward to using it with my laser cutter. The instructions I have found in the past 24 hours are ok, but I was hoping to find some tutorials I could learn from.

I have used Blender, CorelDraw, Inkscape, and even UnrealEd so the concepts of Google SketchUp are already present, it's just the proper efficient use of the tool I need to learn.

To start with I would like to grab a generic model from the Google 3D Warehouse and slice it up to see how well it works. Hopefully someone has already done a tutorial like this.

Any insight or links to online educational info would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks
Zach

ivreich

Hi asteronimo! great plugin!!

It would be good if you could add an option to make slot holes a tiny bit larger than the actual slice thickness because in reality you actually need a small tolerance to get the slices to actually fit together...

You could have this as an adjustable amount to cater for different materials etc.

Cheers

joel

zbuckholz

I have posted the message below in the newbie forum, I probably should have posted to this thread instead.

I am trying to make a triangle box, I bought the Sketchup plugin SliceMaker to take a volumn and slice it into pieces I can then cut on my laser.

The video is short 1 min 20 seconds.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RivRqYusoRE

Then I attempt to export the pieces using the SVG plugin.

I show in the video the SVG plugin export, and my attempt to open in CorelDraw and InkScape.

Neither program can handle the pieces properly, hopefully someone can see something obvious in the video and point out my error.

Thanks
Zach

Dave R

Zach, I used Slice Modeler, the plugin offered in the first post of this thread, to make something similar to your model. It looks like I got similar results.

Then I ran the SVG exporter from Flights of Ideas and got the following. I rearranged the SVG images so they would fit in tighter space but I didn't edit the file at all.

You mention SliceMaker. Perhaps that is the problem? Have you tried SliceModeler?

zbuckholz

I apologize Dave, the name of the plugin I am using is SliceModeler. I will try to move things around and export again.

Thanks
Zach