Flatten a building...
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Ok so I'm not even sure how to describe what I need to do but I will try and hopefully one of you can help me out. I know this process is possible in Rhino but I don't know how to do it in Rhino or SUP.
I have a 3D building and I need each face/panel/wall of the buildings exterior flattened onto a 2 dimensional plane so I can print it out, glue it to a piece of chipboard and then cut it out so I can build a physical model of my drawing. The building is mainly a bunch of triangles so having to measure each angle onto chipboard would be very tedious. Does anyone understand what I'm even trying to do?
Thanks
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first go to your camera menu and select parallel projection, then right click the wall you want and select align view.
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I never used it but there is a Unfold Ruby that should do the trick
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Ohhh thanks sooo much. That will work but I was thinking something along these lines...
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I will try the Ruby script also
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Heads up to everyone:
The Ruby script does EXACTLY what I wanted it to do. Thanks so much. You guys are life(and time!) savers.
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One more question...
Now that I have all my pieces taken apart how do I get them to lay flat on the same plane? I know I could use the move/rotate tools but is there an easier way?
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Another ruby... Drop
it will crash to the ground
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smartdrop will work on a plane that isn't flat
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I found the drop.rb script but I think I get a popup saying "no such file to load - engine/command"
I'm assuming this is another script that is needed for drop to run...where can I find it?
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I found the drop.rb script but I get a popup saying "no such file to load - engine/command"
I'm assuming this is another script that is needed for drop to run...where can I find it?
MOD: delete above post please.
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you can delete your own last post. see the little eraser by the word edit.
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Hmm I don't have a little eraser...just "report this post"
Either way...I installed the smartdrop plugin but I can't find it in sketchup.
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you need sketchup.rb in your tools folder, can you check for that?
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require 'sketchup.rb'
@unknownuser said:
You should have already had sketchup.rb in your SU V6 /Tools folder. If it is not there, I would suggest you re-install SU V6.
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It was in the tools folder so I made a copy of it into the plugins folder but it still doesn't work
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@mark_s said:
Hmm I don't have a little eraser...just "report this post"
Either way...I installed the smartdrop plugin but I can't find it in sketchup.
the little eraser is only there as long as your post is the very last one, when someone posts after you its gone.
smartdrop and drop will appear in the right click menu near the bottom. drop and smartdrop only appear and work if you have a group or component selected. they won't work just on faces.
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I'm sorry...but I'm having trouble figuring it out haha
I'm uploading the .skp and if you have a moment could you try?
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first of all, i can't imagine how that's a building.
but anyways; smartdrop and drop both need something to drop onto such as a face. but they will not rotate your shapes for you. -
Well all the faces are unfolded already that's why it doesn't look like anything...
ok so I figured out how to drop them to the same y plane. Now I just have to rotate them to all be on the same x plane. Thanks sooo much for the help
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