Profile Builder released!
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Phil Rader has graciously created a profile library of concrete curbs. It is now available on the Smustard website: http://www.smustard.com/script/ProfileBuilder. Thanks so much Phil! I welcome any others who wish to share their library files. If you are interested, you can send it to the email address at the bottom of the Smustard site.
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@jclements said:
Dale:
Question: Were closed paths supposed to meld at their start/end vertex? I see some other folks have noted this but I didn't see a response.They are supposed. But they don't always. I find that it's more likely they'll connect if the position point is a point on the profile path. And instead of connecting the start and end at a corner I start somewhere on a straight path.
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Dale:
Pretty darn neat.
[Question: Were closed paths supposed to meld at their start/end vertex? for example, draw an rectangle and delete its surface and use it as a path. [Edit.] However, when I draw an edge which intersects and breaks one of the rectangle's side, then a continuous rectangular extrusion is formed. [End Edit.] I see some other folks have noted this but I didn't see a response.
[Question: I also discovered that if my original path was "welded", the script exploded the copy it created. Would there be a way to test if the path is welded or an arc or a circle, then restored that attribute to the copy?
John
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There are less and less reasons for using ArchiCAD nowadays...
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REQ question..
would it be possible to add properties to the profile ?? a.iI have a aluminum profile then i could add the aluminium name AL8365 and the weight of the material. out of this i have what i need to get the weight rapport of the structure.
lenght x volume x weight = kg/mi can do this now by using the rapport but i have to do the math, but i wonder if this could be integrated ???
thnx for a great plugin.
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Would be nice with a fillet and trim / extend function
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Hi all,
I have finally had a chance to finish the Australian Steel profiles which I have email to Dale for inclusion on the smustard website for download. Included are all sizes available to the Australian market in: [actual section properties]Universal beams
Universal Columns
Equal Angles
Unequal angles
Parallel Flange Beams
Circular Hollow Sections
Rectangular Hollow Sections
Square Hollow SectionsLet me know if any issues....
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Great! Thanks! I will add these to the website.
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Dale
Just another request for visual viewer/editor for shape libraries please.
With the expanding scope of shape libraries it would be a big help to be able
to select the most used profiles and make ones own group without having to scroll through the menu and pick and choose.Just a shape source in SU or equal would do the job.
Maybe thumbnails like in xnView.dtr
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@dtrarch said:
Dale
Just another request for visual viewer/editor for shape libraries please.
With the expanding scope of shape libraries it would be a big help to be able
to select the most used profiles and make ones own group without having to scroll through the menu and pick and choose.Just a shape source in SU or equal would do the job.
Maybe thumbnails like in xnView.dtr
Yes, I know, you have requested this about 10 times now...
I would gladly add it but it is not trivial. In fact it would take many months to implement and I do not have the time to work on that right now. I have some ideas to improve the browsing of Profiles but this a LONG way off from even being worked on yet. I do appreciate the suggestions, though. I am not trying to ignore you here. This really is a big task and I still don't know if the amount of work that it would take is justified. -
One other idea Dale,
Have you thought about the option of an 'end cap' to profiles? It could be a tick option in the dialuge box to cap start and or end of the profile.....Just a thought.
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Hi Dale
Many thanks for the reply and explaining the difficulty in developing a library reader or editor.
Apologies for chewing on you leg on this and I will go directly to Smustard and get a proper copy of this killer app just to keep things even.
Regards
dtr
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i'm having problems selecting to DBclick the profile to start editing. it seems to take 5 or 6 tries all the time , i usually end up selecting other geometry that shares the edge (path) like the bottom of the wall or something. its very frustrating
. i was wondering if maybe you could set up an easier way to start editing? why can't i just start editing as soon as i hit edit member path ? it would avoid lots of confusion and frustration. -
Double-click on the text that says 'Double Click to Start Path Editing'. It's much easier to select.
It is impossible to directly enter path edit mode, otherwise I would have done it that way.
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Dale, any chance for future versions to create the profiles as components as an option? I some times want one profile multiple times across my model. I can wrap the group into a component, but I feel it'd be a smoother workflow if I could skip that.
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@thomthom said:
Dale, any chance for future versions to create the profiles as components as an option? I some times want one profile multiple times across my model. I can wrap the group into a component, but I feel it'd be a smoother workflow if I could skip that.
very good chance
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clicking the text doesn't work for me, try editing the the profile on the left side of the door. most of the time the floor get selected instead. further more if your in edit profile mode and you select something else by accident there doesn't seem to be a way to tell profilebuilder to cancel or forget the operation, which leaves your profile hidden.
try the attached file please, let me know how you make out selecting the profile on the left of the door?
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I have been using this plug-in for a couple of weeks now and have to say it is fantastic
Its already paid off for me in a recent model I did. I would love to get hold of the Aussie / New Zealand steel sections Andrew was looking at, when will these be available Dale? I cant wait. Stan
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@unknownuser said:
I have been using this plug-in for a couple of weeks now and have to say it is fantastic
Its already paid off for me in a recent model I did. I would love to get hold of the Aussie / New Zealand steel sections Andrew was looking at, when will these be available Dale? I cant wait. Stan
I'm dragging the chain, SEKTA. Dale has asked me to reverse a few of the sections to be consistent with all other libraries but i haven't made the time to do it. I will do so ASAP and let you know...
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Dale,
This is esoteric but I feel it is partly my responsibility to keep up with running SketchUp with WINE in Linux, since I started that thread that now seems cited by so many other websites about the practice.
For some reason, Profile Builder is the only Ruby script that does not work for me in that environment. It's usually a line-ending problem which can be solved by a dos2unix shell command very quickly, but something else seems to be happening here...I used that on every rb file, js file, and plb file associated with Profile Builder. The script loads, but no library names or profile names appear in the Profile Builder window.
I don't expect you or anyone to work on this, since it is such a strange situation for your script, but I thought I would make a note of it here so that the problem would at least by public.
Incidentally, all of your other scripts work just fine after line-ending conversion in the Linux/WINE environment.
--Lewis
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