[Plugin] SliceModeler v1.3 released!

TIG

@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.

Youtube Video

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

razer

what about if you only want to slice down one line of your group?

Dave R

Could you clarify that question? Maybe give an illustration of what you want.

thomthom

@dave r said:

"Man skal være klok for å håndtere en løgn, en tosk bør heller holde seg til sannheten."

Interessant proverb - har ikke hørt det før. Hvem stammer sitatet fra?

razer

@dave r said:

Could you clarify that question? Maybe give an illustration of what you want.

Ive got one group and I want to cut that in half to make two groups, not slice it up all the way through my model.

Dave R

I see. This isn't the plugin you want for that. You could use Zorro.rb but don't really need a plugin at all to do this. Open your group for editing, draw a face (cutting plane) that cuts through it where you want to cut it, Select all of it an the group, right click and choose Intersect Faces>With Selection. Delete the edges of the cutting plane and the unwanted portion of the group. If you want to keep both halves, still, drag a left to right selection box around the part you want and use Move/Copy to move that copy away. Or Cut and Paste to get it outside the group if you prefer.

Zorro will make the cut for you but you'll still have to delete the waste or copy out the part you're interested in.

majid

thanx for sharing mate , and seems to be amazing , but doesn't work for me maybe conflict with other ruby or something

SlicerX

I am using sketchup pro version 8 and slice modeler v1.3 it slices up my model but doesnt ask me to flatten the slices out anyone know how this can be done manually or corrected??

Dave R

I see the same thing if I don't have the plugin make slices in a second axis or if there are no slices created during the second slicing step.

kojak

brilliant..well done..you should sell it

CT Ertz

Wow, thanks. This works so good for making the inner formers for card models! I use to do it manually. Thanks,
CT

esatok

Is there a way to create a slice form tool that can create the slices radially? I would appreciate any suggestions, as SketchUp is fairly new to me. Thank you very much.

Dave R

Until there is one, you could do it manually without much work. Draw a rectangular face and create a radial array from it with the copy function of the Rotate tool. Intersect faces with the thing you want to cut. Delete the stuff outside the intersection edges and you're left with your section slices.