Cloud V6

Robert1938

I am trying to use the Ruby Script: Cloud V6. The problem appears to be with my data file.

As a test I wanted to plot the eight corners of a cube. I created in MS Word the following file:

0,0,0
1,0,0
0,0,1
1,0,1
0,1,0
1,1,0
0,1,1
1,1,1

I saved the file using the "plain text" option of the Save command in Word. From within SU I chose from the plugin menu: "Import cloud points." The dialog box appears, and the "Line sample for reference" appears to be correct. (There is however, a vertical line at the end of the coordinate data). When I click on OK, and then choose the location of the origin, a small square appears at the origin selected, but then nothing else happens even after several minutes.

I tried saving the file from Notebook, and from Excel using the CSV option. The results are the same.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance.

Robert

TIG

Cloud is used to make terrain like surfaces... You cannot make 3D 'solids' with it, as it can't work out the geometry - always trying to make a single meshed face.
But you could import that csv data into your own script and then use those points to create faces etc ...
Perhaps you could add the points as cpoints to see that it works, then find sets of cpoints that are planar and add_faces from them ?

Robert1938

Hello TIG,

Thank you very much for your response. I am still not having any luck.

I opened the example.dat file from the cloud v6 documentation, and saved it directly to my desktop. I then accessed the example.dat file through the plugin "Import points cloud", and the results are the same; after I locate the origin, nothing happens even after 10 minutes. Any thoughts?

Thank you in advance for your time.

Robert

P.S.
I am using the SU Free version.
R

thomthom

Moved the thread to the Developer's forum. We have reorganized so that the Plugin section is only a list of plugins you can download and use.