Generating Plans?
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Hi all, I'm very new here, and quite new to SU.
So a quick introduction.
I'm a sculptor and have found SU a great way to think through my designs in 3D, I can see it making life much easier for me.
I've managed to work out how a lot of it works but have a long way to go.I've reach a point where I would like a point in the right direction, the number of threads is pretty daunting and I haven't yet found the right ones or a tutorial that applies to my specific needs.
So any links would be great if you know the ones, or even a run down if you know a simple way to do it and have the time.
So to the problem, I am creating sculptures made up of different pieces of Glass, each one a slightly different size. They are all groups. All I want is to be able to explode them out into plan form so that I can either print them out or add dimensions etc
I'm well aware and able to do it manually, but was hoping that there is a way to get it done automatically.This one is only 100 pieces, but I have others that have far more and often multiples on each level.
Thanks for looking.
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Here is TIG's Slicer plugin:
http://rhin.crai.archi.fr/RubyLibraryDepot/plugin_details.php?id=395 -
Too late Gai
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No, you editedyour post!
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yes... but see the first adress, it was Slice3 explanation
My posts are always edited because I don't remember many things at the time I write them
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Thankyou gentlemen.
I had already tried slicer but hadn't found slicer 3 which gives you the flattened copy.Excellent, I knew I shouldn't have been so reluctant to ask, didn't want to get the old Use the Search answer.
Thanks again, now go back to arguing about who got there first.
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Not exactly that you want but can maybe help you (slice3)
(maybe you must registered to this forum for see images)
Slice3 by Tig (I f you take a big step, maybe that can works
You can see also fragmentation-explosed view
last plugs'version are always at the end of the fisrt post of a thread!!! -
I'll give it a try a bit later and let you know the results.
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@unknownuser said:
I had already tried slicer but hadn't found slicer 3 which gives you the flattened copy.
Problem is that is for one group or composant so maybe you must make only one big component or group?
Here box and cylinder are each a group, so I group all and that works fine
(a group of groups)
A tricky plug!
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Try also fragmentation-explosed view
When all are explosed maybe you can fall down all components in one click on the same plan with Drop by TBD -
Thanks Pilou, I had tried to do it with those two plugins but found it a bit cumbersome. My main problem was getting Eclate to explode it the way I needed. I also tried exim, but didn't manage to get what I wanted there either.
It may be that I'm not quite understanding exactly how those plugins work.Slice 3 does it perfectly, couple of clicks and I have my plans all ready to make a scale model.
Thanks for the help.
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The only diffilcuty for you with Slice3 is to find the good measure's slice for your existant components
if you have something like that
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I think I understand what you are getting at, but all I need is the overall shape or outline of each piece. So in effect each of the layers you see in the image is nothing more than a square sided rectangle, so setting the slice at the centre of each piece gives me a cutting plan, and also a positioning guide.
If I was using shaped edges on the individual pieces then, yes, I think it would create a problem.
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@unknownuser said:
so setting the slice at the centre of each piece gives me a cutting plan, and also a positioning guide.
Sure but you said that you have thousand of pieces
So I am curious of the tricky trick for make that automatically -
Well, so far I've tried several ways, all of them work, some better than others, I've yet to decide on the best way.
The most basic way,
I create a block of "Layer" the thickness I want, just by making one then doing multiple copies stacked on top of each other.Then I extrude the profile shapes, which I draw separately, through that block from the two different directions, Intersect all and then erase the bits I don't want.
But having found Slice modeller and now Slice 3, I will probably attack things differently.
Basically I'm trying to learn the best and quickest ways to create the shapes I want and get them down as workable plans.
I'm not too interested yet in rendering etc, this is more for me to take the ideas out of my head and get them to working drawings.
Generally I sculpt everything from Polystyrene first and then slice it up, rather messy and time consuming no matter how much fun it is.This is a rough unfinished torso in poly.
And then I make that into something like this.
That might explain why I can see the benefits of being able to draw in 3D
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As I see each Slices pieces is like a "vertical extrusion" following different axes?
So Slices3 will be perfect!
Just orient the volume in the good position -
@box said:
This is a rough unfinished torso in poly.
And then I make that into something like this.
Well, I do see a very big difference between that sexy woman and that old man!
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Yep, you got it.
And any edge shaping I do by hand.
This gives me the blank pieces of glass to start working with.Yes, well, I make all sorts.
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@box said:
Yes, well, I make all sorts.
Ok, just you wrote "And then I make that into something like this."
But I don't want to take you thread off-topic.
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I was thinking the same thing as I wrote it.
They were just two images in the different states that I had to hand.Nothing wrong with a little hijack, it's got my post count moving so I don't get moderated anymore it seems.
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