Profile Builder released!

jonorman

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/m

i 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.

Jorgensen

Would be nice with a fillet and trim / extend function

utiler

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 Sections

Let me know if any issues....

Whaat

Great! Thanks! I will add these to the website.

dtrarch

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

Whaat

@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.

utiler

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.

dtrarch

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

xrok1

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.

Whaat

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.

thomthom

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.

Whaat

@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

xrok1

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?

Kitchen.skp

Sekta

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

utiler

@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...
thanks,

lewiswadsworth

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.

http://www.sketchucation.com/forums/scf/viewtopic.php?f=180&t=9687

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

xrok1

can anyone confirm my difficulties in double clicking the path for editing?

utiler

Hi all, Just sent through the revised Australian Steel profiles to Dale for checking and uploading to the smustard website. Hopefully they should be there in the next day or so....

Whaat

@utiler said:

Hi all, Just sent through the revised Australian Steel profiles to Dale for checking and uploading to the smustard website. Hopefully they should be there in the next day or so....

Thanks utiler!
The Australian Steel Profiles are now available for download! Get them here

david_h

@unknownuser said:

here's another little glitch i am running into . . .I trace a path for a door casing and it seems to follow the path fine, but then when I finish the command. .there's nothing there!

Not to be "yutz" or anything about this--but I am still having this problem. I pick out a baseboard profile, start drawing around the base of the wall and then about 2 or 3 lines into it. . .zap! it's gone. The tool remains active, it just gives up during the process. I am doing this on a fairly complex model, but the task I am asking it to do is fairly simple. Does that have anything to do with it? Could it be the combnation of Inside and outside corners? on a fresh model . .. say a simple cube, it works fine. I just don't know . . .