Easy way to enter cylindrical shapes using polar data?
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I have data from another program which uses 3-D volumes as input. I'd like to 3-D visualize this data using Sketchup? Is there an easy way to enter EXACT 3-D boundary surface data into Sketchup for this purpose? My data is represented as 3-D planes using cylindrical coordinates (i.e. - r, phi, z).
I tried using "polarline.rb" but this is limited to plotting straight lines. My surfaces are curved and 3-dimensional.
I submitted this question in this forum assuming I would need a script or plug-in to do what I am asking. Can anyone help me?
Marc G.
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See this thread for links http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?p=220368#p220368
Note the minor 'fix'...
Survey Tool works fine taking survey data in the form of points, bearings etc...
Not sure exactly what it is you need...
What are 'r', 'phi' and 'z' ?
How are they 'available' to a script ? [e.g. s a csv/txt file]
Do you have a reasonably sized example of it ?
What do you want to end up with ?
If you have the appropriate data I'm sure it can be imported somehow and made into geometry...
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