[Plugin] Cloud

mozzie

For me, it's an essential tool.
And it just gets better!
Merci Didier!

mozzie

The Points Cloud Export function will be a wonderful new tool for me, but I am having trouble with the Export dialog - if I highlight a face with one divide line, then choose Points Cloud >> Export, nothing happens. The Ruby Console shows:

Error: #<TypeError: no implicit conversion from nil to integer>
(eval):655:in []' (eval):655:in initialize'
(eval):1269:in new' (eval):1269:in exportPointsCloud'
(eval):1281
(eval):1281:in `call'

screenshot attached

Also - would it be possible to nominate a new (not World) origin for export, just as for Import? I will understand if you decide that it will make the tool too complicated.

Screenshot showing Ruby Console

MALAISE

Very useful, specially for terrain modelling

MALAISE

Didier Bur

Hi,

@ Mozzie: please open the ruby console and copy-paste this line: Sketchup.active_model.options[0][2]
Hit enter and post what happens. You should have an integer returned, from 0 to 4. Any other result shows who's the culprit...
They changed the units options hash between 7.0 and 7.1

thomthom

@didier bur said:

They changed the units options hash between 7.0 and 7.1

!!! ?
What? that has not been documented anywhere - has it?

Didier Bur

Hi,

v6: length unit is: Sketchup.active_model.options[0][2]
v7.0 length unit is: Sketchup.active_model.options[0][2]
v 7.1. length unit is: Sketchup.active_model.options[3][2]

Am I right ?

thomthom

oh, you meant the array index - I thought the hash key had changed:

` Sketchup.active_model.options.keys.each {|key| p key; Sketchup.active_model.options[key].each {|k,v| puts "> #{k} - #{v}"} }
"PageOptions"

ShowTransition - false
TransitionTime - 2.0
"SlideshowOptions"
LoopSlideshow - true
SlideTime - 1.0
"NamedOptions"
"UnitsOptions"
LengthPrecision - 0
LengthFormat - 0
LengthUnit - 2
LengthSnapEnabled - false
LengthSnapLength - 0.0393700787401575
AnglePrecision - 1
AngleSnapEnabled - true
SnapAngle - 15.0
SuppressUnitsDisplay - false
ForceInchDisplay - false
"PrintOptions"
PrintWidth - 7.0
PrintHeight - 5.0
ComputeSizeFromScale - false
SizeInPrint - 1.0
SizeInModel - 307.906005859375
VectorMode - false
FitToPage - true
NumberOfPages - 1
LineWeight - 0.5
PixelsPerInch - 150.0
SectionSlice - false
ModelExtents - false
PrintQuality - 3
ScaleAdjustment - 1.0
QualityAdjustment - 0.5
["PageOptions", "SlideshowOptions", "NamedOptions", "UnitsOptions", "PrintOptions"]`

This is the same in all versions?

TIG

You shouldn't hard-code the units items like that [or any other option for that matter] - because the order can change with each build - instead use model.options["UnitsOptions"]["LengthUnit"] that will work no matter what

Didier Bur

@unknownuser said:

use model.options["UnitsOptions"]["LengthUnit"] that will work no matter what

Of course ! I don't know why I didn't though of that before...

Bug fixed, new version available, same place.

mozzie

Thanks for the fix ... it is no longer necessry but result is;

Sketchup.active_model.options[0][2]
nil

for 7.1

thomthom

There are four Cloud threads - can we clean these up please?
For instance;
Removing the download for the old ones,
Replacing [Plugin] with [Obsolete]
Add a link to the new version
Then finally lock the old ones?

When I was looking at the plugin index it was confusing to what was the latest version.

thomthom

@unknownuser said:

Difficult to keep track of what's new, some topics contain plugins but not the [Plugin] prefix, other topics are posted as questions and then a plugin is added but the first post not renamed with the prefix, etc.

Yea - we should do a cleanup of all these - have them reposted fresh and remove any outdated version.

JGA

Thanks very much for providing this plugin, we've recently invested in a Total Station & this translates the point data reliably. Providing a help file is also a boon.
We're also using TIG's contourmaker plugin, which helps when exporting to data to AutoCAD.

Erkki

Hi,

How to get Cloud_71.rbs and Cloud_6.rb to work?

My intention is to load elevation data of a terrain collected with the help of a GSP-logger to create a terrain model for a village. I noticed that there is a plugin Cloud_71.rbs in the Ruby Library Depot by Didier Bur. I understand that the plugin accepts elevation data, if it is in the CSV-format described in the pdf of the plugin. I downloaded Cloud_71.rbs in the plugin folder of Sketchup 7.1 (Windows XP Pro).

For some reason the Cloud_71.rbs didn't show up in the Plugin menu or any other menu either after restart of Sketchup 7.1. The older "Clouds" with extension .rb show up, but unfortunately I wasn't able to get them work with the downloaded sample files, although I browsed all the possible SketchUcation discussion forums and also some others for help.

Does anyone know if there is an any easy way to get the Cloud_xx.rb plugins to work? And how to get the Cloud_71.rbs plugin show up and make terrain in Sketchup 7.1 or even in the newer Sketchup 8? I'm convinced that there are ways - I just couldn't find the way.

I'd be grateful for your help.

Kind regards Erkki Finni

Didier Bur

Hi,
Avoid having more than one version of a plugin installed at the same time, remove older versions of cloud script, this may cause the problem.
Hope this helps,

Erkki

@didier bur said:

Hi,
Avoid having more than one version of a plugin installed at the same time, remove older versions of cloud script, this may cause the problem.
Hope this helps,

Hi,

Thanks for the hint! I'll try to do this.

Regards Erkki Finni

Erkki

@didier bur said:

Hi,
Avoid having more than one version of a plugin installed at the same time, remove older versions of cloud script, this may cause the problem.
Hope this helps,

Hi again,

I removed the oldest versions of the Cloud_xx.rb plugins and
left only Cloud_71.rbs in the Plugin folder of Skecthup 7.1.
I started Skecthup
As it was opened, the File menu included Points Cloud option
After this everything was childsplay - all the test files were
drawn beatifully on the screen. I didn't test the Export-option yet.
I repeated the test with Skecthup 8.0.3117 and the result was also good.

This success made me happy and confident to use the plugin for my orginal purpose; to create terrain by using GPS-logger data as input. So many thanks for your help!

Kind regards Erkki Finni

Sir

anyone tried this on a file with about half a billion points?

Didier Bur

Hi,
It should import the points quite quickly, but for triangulation: forget it (the delaunay algorithm is slow and SU is lazy when drawing such a bunch of new entities).
Regards,

thomthom

@didier bur said:

Hi,
It should import the points quite quickly, but for triangulation: forget it (the delaunay algorithm is slow and SU is lazy when drawing such a bunch of new entities).
Regards,

Tried building the geometry with fill_from_mesh ?