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    • K Offline
      kwistenbiebel
      last edited by

      Nice idea thomthom. Things are busy now, but I will try the plugin in depth at the weekend.
      For architects this is extremely useful!
      Now I don't have to ask the Rhino guy to do it for me and to import it in SU πŸ˜‰

      By the way,
      I love the CookieWare idea! Whenever you're in Australia, please drop by for a beer... πŸ˜„

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        dtrarch
        last edited by

        I yield πŸ‘Š
        Just thought that muli-level flat and extrude might be a possible for structural elements and such.

        tt many thanks in any case β˜€

        dtr

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        • utilerU Offline
          utiler
          last edited by

          @kwistenbiebel said:

          Nice idea thomthom. Things are busy now, but I will try the plugin in depth at the weekend.
          For architects this is extremely useful!
          Now I don't have to ask the Rhino guy to do it for me and to import it in SU πŸ˜‰

          By the way,
          I love the CookieWare idea! Whenever you're in Australia, please drop by for a beer... πŸ˜„

          Some nice boutique breweries over there, kwist......
          After you've had a few beers with kwist, Thom fly across the other side of the country and I'll shout you a few also!!! πŸ‘

          purpose/expression/purpose/....

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          • thomthomT Offline
            thomthom
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            @kwistenbiebel said:

            Now I don't have to ask the Rhino guy to do it for me and to import it in SU πŸ˜‰

            Rhino has a function like this??

            Thomas Thomassen β€” SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
            List of my plugins and link to the CookieWare fund

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            • thomthomT Offline
              thomthom
              last edited by

              @dtrarch said:

              I yield πŸ‘Š
              Just thought that muli-level flat and extrude might be a possible for structural elements and such.

              tt many thanks in any case β˜€

              dtr

              Multi-level flat and extrude? Could you care to explain more what you got in mind?

              Thomas Thomassen β€” SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
              List of my plugins and link to the CookieWare fund

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              • G Offline
                gavvy
                last edited by

                thomthom
                πŸ˜’
                I tride this plugin .The groups in the group can't be faltten
                Is it a better idea to flatten the group in group,and hold the group of faces?

                to build a city ,i always use clf_greeble_2.rb πŸ˜„

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                • thomthomT Offline
                  thomthom
                  last edited by

                  Currently it doesn't dig into nested groups. It only works on the edges directly inside the selected group/component.
                  Will change that later.

                  Thomas Thomassen β€” SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
                  List of my plugins and link to the CookieWare fund

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                  • G Offline
                    gavvy
                    last edited by

                    @thomthom said:

                    Currently it doesn't dig into nested groups. It only works on the edges directly inside the selected group/component.
                    Will change that later.

                    πŸ˜„
                    zorro tool is a good EXAMPLE

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                    • GaieusG Offline
                      Gaieus
                      last edited by

                      Hm. My city has just stopped at 31% (and SU is unresponsive). But I gues there are limitations also (file size and edge count) so maybe I shouldn't be so eager and clean the file up a bit before I try.
                      πŸ˜‰

                      Gai...

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                      • thomthomT Offline
                        thomthom
                        last edited by

                        @gaieus said:

                        Hm. My city has just stopped at 31% (and SU is unresponsive). But I gues there are limitations also (file size and edge count) so maybe I shouldn't be so eager and clean the file up a bit before I try.
                        πŸ˜‰

                        Can you send me the model for debugging?

                        Thomas Thomassen β€” SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
                        List of my plugins and link to the CookieWare fund

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                        • D Offline
                          dtrarch
                          last edited by

                          TT
                          It seemed useful to be able to flatten selected objects (groups components etc) to adjusted (TIG's)heights above default Z height zero.
                          Then select and extrude +/- as wanted.
                          A multi-Z height selection.
                          Just an idea for consideration.

                          dtr

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                          • thomthomT Offline
                            thomthom
                            last edited by

                            roof-builder.png

                            Been trying to find a way to triangulate Roofs from 3d plans. Will never be perfect, but "good enough" to do the bulk work and get a rough idea of the shape.

                            Think the name of this plugin isn't fitting any more. It's doing much more building than flattening. "BuildUp"?

                            Thomas Thomassen β€” SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
                            List of my plugins and link to the CookieWare fund

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                            • GaieusG Offline
                              Gaieus
                              last edited by

                              @thomthom said:

                              ...Can you send me the model for debugging?

                              Sure - see your PM (when I finish this post). But in fact, the file is still a mess as everything is connected with everything (street ends for instance are "closed") and also it's a rather large piece of the city (and where I cut it out from the whole city plan, there are a bunch of open ends, too) so no wonder it didn't really work.

                              Wherever I cleaned up a bit and grouped separately, it worked just fine.

                              Gai...

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                              • GaieusG Offline
                                Gaieus
                                last edited by

                                And the roofing also looks promising!
                                πŸ˜‰

                                Gai...

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                                • pilouP Offline
                                  pilou
                                  last edited by

                                  you have a very cool roof maker from flat plan and many more roofs actions in 1001bit πŸ˜‰ (expand the roof menu)

                                  Frenchy Pilou
                                  Is beautiful that please without concept!
                                  My Little site :)

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                                  • thomthomT Offline
                                    thomthom
                                    last edited by

                                    @unknownuser said:

                                    you have a very cool roof maker from flat plan and many more roofs actions in 1001bit πŸ˜‰ (expand the roof menu)

                                    True, but that's a generic roof. All the existing roof tools make generic roofs. This is to generate accurate-ish roofs from 3D plan data.

                                    Thomas Thomassen β€” SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
                                    List of my plugins and link to the CookieWare fund

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                                    • pilouP Offline
                                      pilou
                                      last edited by

                                      Cool! β˜€
                                      Does your plug can generate roof from surface like this? (1001bits don't πŸ˜‰


                                      roof.jpg

                                      Frenchy Pilou
                                      Is beautiful that please without concept!
                                      My Little site :)

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                                      • thomthomT Offline
                                        thomthom
                                        last edited by

                                        @unknownuser said:

                                        Cool! β˜€
                                        Does your plug can generate roof from surface like this? (1001bits don't πŸ˜‰

                                        No, not from just a flat face. You need edges defining the shape and height of the roof. The starting geometry is a bunch of wireframe edges of the building, where the layer of the edges defines their role.
                                        RoofBuilder.png

                                        Thomas Thomassen β€” SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
                                        List of my plugins and link to the CookieWare fund

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                                        • pilouP Offline
                                          pilou
                                          last edited by

                                          My surface was "Flat" on the ground πŸ˜‰
                                          Just with some flat round arc lines
                                          So your plug manage only straight lines?

                                          Or I missunderstand : you must have first roofs or these are calculated?


                                          cone.jpg

                                          Frenchy Pilou
                                          Is beautiful that please without concept!
                                          My Little site :)

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                                          • thomthomT Offline
                                            thomthom
                                            last edited by

                                            @unknownuser said:

                                            My surface was "Flat" on the ground πŸ˜‰
                                            Just with some flat round arc lines
                                            So your plug manage only straight lines?

                                            It shouldn't matter if they are curves. But observe the edges in my screenshot. They are above the ground level. And you also need to specify the layer the edges are on.

                                            Also - note that I've not released the version that generates the roofs yet. Screenshot was only a teaser.

                                            But what I'm trying to explain is that it won't make a roof from a flat surface. You need the wireframe of 3D lines.

                                            Thomas Thomassen β€” SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
                                            List of my plugins and link to the CookieWare fund

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