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  • P Offline
    pav_3j
    last edited by 3 Nov 2009, 17:55

    well hello there my fellow sketchup-ers!

    how are you all this evening? well i hope.

    i need help, as you might have guessed form the subject title.
    for a current uni project i have to produce an exploded diagram of a large scale emergency flood HQ (which i am currently designing) i have no idea how to do this!
    i understand what it is, and i can only think of one way of doing it, manually, and as the building is going to have at least 5000 different articles in it, i'd rather find an automated way of doing it.

    any ideas?

    a colleague says you can do this in deep exploration, so he tried doing it on a model for me at work, and the results were not as expected.
    it pretty much just ripped the model into every single line and dispersed it in an utterly random fashion.

    anyone else have any bright ideas?
    the project doesn't have to be in for another 5 weeks, but it would be nice to get everything as sorted as possible as if i do have to do it by hand, it's going to take up all of that time!

    any help is greatly appreciated.

    regards

    pav

    ps. sketchucation rules!

    Just won the 'Who is Least Competitive Championships' where trying to win will make you lose. Trying to lose makes you win which makes you lose. Not trying at all makes you lose which makes you win which makes you lose.

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      remus
      last edited by 3 Nov 2009, 17:59

      Theres this script: http://www.smustard.com/script/ExplodeImplode but im not sure how well it works (and you have to fork over cold hard cash.)

      Other than that id just go with grouping the sections you want to explode then exploding them. I imagine good model organisation will help greatly with this, as if you can keep all the stuff you wont need to explode on separate layers you can just turn it off.

      http://remusrendering.wordpress.com/

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        pav_3j
        last edited by 3 Nov 2009, 18:10

        yeah the model is grouped entriely into serperate articles, we have to go down as detailed as the nuts and bolts that hold the thing together, but i haven't got that far yet, i am just trying to get a method sorted so it doesn't catch me out come deadline season!

        i've been using the xref manager which has been an abosolute godsend as i can work on seperate parts and then xref it in.

        looks like i'm in for the long haul though, ah well at least i'm prepared for it.

        cheers for the heads up on the ruby remus, i might resort to it if my fingers start wearing out from all the incessant clicking i shall be doing! he he

        pav

        Just won the 'Who is Least Competitive Championships' where trying to win will make you lose. Trying to lose makes you win which makes you lose. Not trying at all makes you lose which makes you win which makes you lose.

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        • R Offline
          remus
          last edited by 3 Nov 2009, 18:12

          If you can stomach it mid project it might be worth upgrading to SU7.1 as well, it handles more polys without dying 😄

          http://remusrendering.wordpress.com/

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            pav_3j
            last edited by 3 Nov 2009, 18:17

            yeah i might have to, either that or learn a new piece of software.

            upgrade it is then!

            SKETCHUP RULES!

            he he

            pav

            Just won the 'Who is Least Competitive Championships' where trying to win will make you lose. Trying to lose makes you win which makes you lose. Not trying at all makes you lose which makes you win which makes you lose.

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            • W Offline
              watkins
              last edited by 3 Nov 2009, 19:15

              Is this the sort of thing you would like to do?

              or this

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                pav_3j
                last edited by 3 Nov 2009, 20:02

                kinda, it's more like this though:

                or this

                the animation isn't important, it's the deagram its self, i can do it, but i was looking for an automated way to save time.

                i was trying to work smart and not hard, but looks like i'll have to go back to the hard method!
                oh well!

                pav

                Just won the 'Who is Least Competitive Championships' where trying to win will make you lose. Trying to lose makes you win which makes you lose. Not trying at all makes you lose which makes you win which makes you lose.

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                  Dave R
                  last edited by 4 Nov 2009, 00:41

                  This might not be much help but one thing I've found useful for exploded views (and I do one on nearly every project) is to start with a large selection set and move that stuff. then I change the selection set and move that stuff. It's not automated but it isn't too bad.

                  Etaoin Shrdlu

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                    TIG Moderator
                    last edited by 4 Nov 2009, 10:16

                    Make you model out of components and sub-components.
                    Make each of them 'dynamic', so that in the same way cupboard doors can swing open/shut or draws slide in/out, you can then move the parts of your model simply by clicking on then with the dc tool...
                    Each part can have a separate action defined...

                    TIG

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                      pav_3j
                      last edited by 4 Nov 2009, 11:51

                      TIG you're a genius!

                      thank you so much, i shall try it right away.

                      pav

                      Just won the 'Who is Least Competitive Championships' where trying to win will make you lose. Trying to lose makes you win which makes you lose. Not trying at all makes you lose which makes you win which makes you lose.

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