[Plugin] Stick groups to mesh ver. 1.2.
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....красивая работа Kирилл!
...nice work! thanks! 
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Its like super-drape
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@earthmover said:
I would like to see the possibility of "timing out" your scripts with the escape button like Fredo has in the Round corner plugin. Especially with the scripts that take a long time to process.
Yes I agree it is necessary to add
. I think it's number 1 feature in my list of updates for all 'long-lasting' scripts.@earthmover said:
It's amazing how you manage to allow the script to run while the user is still able to rotate and move around the scene.
Actually it is not my achievment. It is already implemented ability of sketchup API (so called 'timer' works such a way). You know, as for me, I'm amazed at the sketchup itself
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Hi Kirill,
You've done a new incredible tool. Now making Dali's like watches will be very easy
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Best Wishes for 2010
MALAISE
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This is a most welcome addition to your already impressive collection of plugins.
Thank you and merry Xmas and a happy new year to you
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@malaise said:
Now making Dali's like watches will be very easy
.Well, actually the initial idea of the script was to stick some master plan elements (paving, roads, grass etc) to the terrain surface (
boring, isn't it?), but why not stick watches too?
I think it is necessary to make some enhancements to the script (materials support, optional sticking direction etc) to make it more flexible than just master plan elements 'sticker'.
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Kirill:
Your openness to suggestions is a wonderful trait, which seems to be shared by all of the Ruby masters in this forum.May you and all here have a joyous season!
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To sum up:
Dude, you rock! What a great plugin.
EDIT: I seem to find a way to break your plugins! Same as my comments about the "add control points" plugin, I applied the plugin, undid the action, and then tried to reapply it. Now I have the rapidly scrolling error messages in the Ruby window the don't stop, and a pop-up error dialog that says "It is necessary to select some groups of faces before calling the command".
Only fix is to restart SU.
Error; #<TypeError; reference to deleted Group> L;/Modeling/Sketchup Google/Plugins/ctrlpnts.rb;214;in `entities' L;/Modeling/Sketchup Google/Plugins/ctrlpnts.rb;214;in `deform_group' L;/Modeling/Sketchup Google/Plugins/ctrlpnts.rb;213;in `call' (eval);892 Error; #<TypeError; reference to deleted Group> L;/Modeling/Sketchup Google/Plugins/ctrlpnts.rb;214;in `entities' L;/Modeling/Sketchup Google/Plugins/ctrlpnts.rb;214;in `deform_group' L;/Modeling/Sketchup Google/Plugins/ctrlpnts.rb;213;in `call' (eval);892 Error; #<TypeError; reference to deleted Group> L;/Modeling/Sketchup Google/Plugins/ctrlpnts.rb;214;in `entities' L;/Modeling/Sketchup Google/Plugins/ctrlpnts.rb;214;in `deform_group' L;/Modeling/Sketchup Google/Plugins/ctrlpnts.rb;213;in `call' (eval);892 Error; #<TypeError; reference to deleted Group> L;/Modeling/Sketchup Google/Plugins/ctrlpnts.rb;214;in `entities' L;/Modeling/Sketchup Google/Plugins/ctrlpnts.rb;214;in `deform_group' L;/Modeling/Sketchup Google/Plugins/ctrlpnts.rb;213;in `call' (eval);892 Error; #<TypeError; reference to deleted Group> L;/Modeling/Sketchup Google/Plugins/ctrlpnts.rb;214;in `entities' L;/Modeling/Sketchup Google/Plugins/ctrlpnts.rb;214;in `deform_group' L;/Modeling/Sketchup Google/Plugins/ctrlpnts.rb;213;in `call' (eval);892 Error; #<TypeError; reference to deleted Group> L;/Modeling/Sketchup Google/Plugins/ctrlpnts.rb;214;in `entities' L;/Modeling/Sketchup Google/Plugins/ctrlpnts.rb;214;in `deform_group' L;/Modeling/Sketchup Google/Plugins/ctrlpnts.rb;213;in `call' (eval);892PS: I love watching these scripts work, it's like watching Jeff Bridge's character get digitized in Tron.
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Hi Kirill,
What a great plugin. An incredible tool. But it doesn't work in Sketchup 7.
Karlheinz
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Awesome Kirill, glad you wrote this. This script has been the "next script" on my list to do for a long time, and I have just never quite got around to figuring it out. Saved me a lot of headaches
Seriously, very cool script!
Chris
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@chris fullmer said:
Saved me a lot of headaches
I must say, that the most brain-damaging part was addition of edges projections of 'ruling' surface to the group
. Finaly I recalled, that sketchup API has the very powerful built-in method (it actually has a plenty of) for entities collection 'entities.intersect_with'. The rest part was more or less obvious.
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thank you,I need for my model
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@escapeartist said:
EDIT: I seem to find a way to break your plugins! Same as my comments about the "add control points" plugin, I applied the plugin, undid the action, and then tried to reapply it.
Undo performance correct handling is my headache
. I promiss to fix it.@escapeartist said:
PS: I love watching these scripts work, it's like watching Jeff Bridge's character get digitized in Tron.
A kind of retro-futurism
UPD: I mean real-time sticking would look much more impressive, of course. Just imagine: you see neither '>' sign moving left-to-right, nor Jeff Bridge's digitizing characters after picking a surface, just immediately sticked geometry group. It is possible for sure (and maybe already exist in some other modeling soft), but demands a bit low level coding, I guess.
I believe, SU developing team will take in account an interest of SU community and will add similar tool in future versions of SU (at least in pro version).a bit off-topick: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jz8QWDBYn5w
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@charly2008 said:
Hi Kirill,
What a great plugin. An incredible tool. But it doesn't work in Sketchup 7.
Karlheinz
Dear charly2008
It's work fine in my sketchup 7.1. -
Merry Xmas, New Year, etc...
Kirril, works on OSX10.5.8 + 7.1, however, 3D text needs to be exploded and regrouped, and it seems to prefer, grid patches made with sandbox, or I get issues.
but that's fine because it is so neat (and I don't mean in the corny American way), it is tidy, precision engineering tidy, 3D stainless steel printing tidy, fantastic, I certainly hope Santa bought you something nice.
Anyway heres my test, on a torrus, with a material I made using blend(dot)rb, I'll put a You tube Texture anim up tomorrow. I want to make fire in sketchup... for some reason.
all the best
john
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Really cool plugin! Happy holidays! -
Hi Jerome,
You're right, it works. It was my fault. But I noticed the changing of the selection frame.
Karlheinz
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Kirill,
The plugin seems very powerful, but I can't make it work on SU7.
The progress bar appears but seems to block (at 12%).
I am just trying to stick a cube on a dome.Fredo
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Fredo,
I had to zero out smoothing on the recipient mesh first, and on some of the SU shapes, I also found using 'add-detail' from sandbox seemed to make a difference.
don't know why it worked, but I've been trying to apply 3D text to curved tubes for ages and kept at it till it worked.
Oh, I also grouped a much smaller patch, just bigger than the text footprint. as the recipient and that speeds it all up.
on the mac with 7.1 it was slower than the video implies and I don't seem to get as much shown on screen, but the end result is great.
I need this to be 'watertight' for STL export and I had very little internal clean-up to do.
cheers again Kirill
Any chance of utilising this method in a booleen tool, I can't get as clean an intersection with anything I've tried on a mac
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@driven said:
Anyway heres my test, on a torrus, with a material I made using blend(dot)rb, I'll put a You tube Texture anim up tomorrow.john
Actually I'm surprised a lot that it works for torus. The 1.0 version does not check if each face of ruling surface is the first one intersected by 'sticking' ray (but it has to perform such checking for the surface that is not terrain-like, I'm on my way to implement the mentioned checking).
So the only explanation is that torus faces near the text group were occasionally processed before other torus faces and other faces were occasionally ignored, or maybe a part of torus surface that is the most close one to the text was grouped and used as a ruling surface, as in the following video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EB68JdEJSoSo the sticking result does not depend on smoothing, but on surface geometry.
Everything is more or less obvious, but demands a bit of additional work to make the result of script processing more expected one, you know principle of least surprise (POLS)
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