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    • thomthomT Offline
      thomthom
      last edited by

      When I say I I mean, someone smarter than me helped me out. 😉

      Thomas Thomassen — SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
      List of my plugins and link to the CookieWare fund

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        Panga
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        Whatever if someone helped you or not, you were the one looking for the solution...so you found it ! 😛

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          artupato
          last edited by

          sir Thomthom,
          thank you very much for this plugin.
          what a coincidence! This day I've been thinking of raytracing and what is its concept. I think I'll understand this once I use your plugin and of course read some notes about it. 😄

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          • thomthomT Offline
            thomthom
            last edited by

            grrrr.... SU8 has even more troublesome bug with the raytest method. I'm struggling to find a workaround.
            I got the Spray Ray working in SU7 - but SU8 is being a PITA.

            Thomas Thomassen — SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
            List of my plugins and link to the CookieWare fund

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              thomthom
              last edited by

              Version 1.1.0

              • Requires TT_Lib2 (v2.3.0)
              • Trace Spray Ray.
              • Bugfixes.

              Note: SU8 does not process rays properly and the results are not reliable!
              I've been unable to work out a successful workaround. 😞

              Thomas Thomassen — SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
              List of my plugins and link to the CookieWare fund

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              • thomthomT Offline
                thomthom
                last edited by

                Kind-of like a cob-web... if the CLines was replaced with catenary curves...

                cobweb.png

                http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/fb/SpiderCatenary.jpg/180px-SpiderCatenary.jpg

                Wiki uses cob-webs as an example for catenary curves http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catenary

                I have no idea what the usage would be, other than for Halloween... but... cool...

                Thomas Thomassen — SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
                List of my plugins and link to the CookieWare fund

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                  Panga
                  last edited by

                  Thanks Thomthom, I'll try it. Hope you can find a way to make it work under SU8 later.

                  EDIT :

                  Hi Thomthom,

                  I made a Test under SU8, and it Works pretty well. Until now, I test it with a max of 10 000 rays, and it takes about 15 seconds to calculate, so It's pretty fast. The only thing is it seems that some directions are ignored by rays, see on the picture below :

                  Test-raytracer.png

                  Whatever, It's already a really good tool for me. I'm thinking of other options, but I'll do some tests before talking about...See u and thanks again.

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                    pilou
                    last edited by

                    Damned I have missed this hidden collection under a falacious title 😲
                    💚

                    Frenchy Pilou
                    Is beautiful that please without concept!
                    My Little site :)

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                    • thomthomT Offline
                      thomthom
                      last edited by

                      @panga said:

                      EDIT :

                      Hi Thomthom,

                      I made a Test under SU8, and it Works pretty well. Until now, I test it with a max of 10 000 rays, and it takes about 15 seconds to calculate, so It's pretty fast. The only thing is it seems that some directions are ignored by rays, see on the picture below :

                      Sorry for the last reply - but I never noticed this edit. (Don't think edits marks the topic as unread.)
                      As mentioned in the first post, SU8 has a nasty bug in the raytracer. Only thing one can do is wait for Google to fix it and release a new version.

                      Thomas Thomassen — SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
                      List of my plugins and link to the CookieWare fund

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                        davidlouis
                        last edited by

                        Hi Thom

                        I am getting a few weird results with the drop component option...
                        I thought I would try an test with a series of cars on a slope to simulate a parking lot scenrio.

                        ??? 😮 There are some non conformers

                        Test file attached.

                        Cheers

                        Dave


                        DROP COMPONENTS.jpg


                        DROP COMPONENTS.skp

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                        • thomthomT Offline
                          thomthom
                          last edited by

                          Drop by Bounds, right?

                          I see the car crashes as well... 😕

                          Thomas Thomassen — SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
                          List of my plugins and link to the CookieWare fund

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                            davidlouis
                            last edited by

                            Yup...

                            Maybe Magneto is in the area...

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                            • thomthomT Offline
                              thomthom
                              last edited by

                              Version 1.1.1

                              • Fixed a bug in Drop by Bounds that caused chaos when objects where dropped.

                              Thomas Thomassen — SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
                              List of my plugins and link to the CookieWare fund

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                                mitcorb
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                                Thank you, ThomThom:
                                I will test this out. You are very talented, relentless in the pursuit of excellence. I salute you. 👍 👍 👍

                                I take the slow, deliberate approach in my aimless wandering.

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                                  tallerfulano
                                  last edited by

                                  Just fantastic !
                                  thanks

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                                  • pilouP Offline
                                    pilou
                                    last edited by

                                    Any chance to have something for have this result when I select the 3 up objects ?
                                    I can use SketchyPhysics but...

                                    raytracer.jpg

                                    Frenchy Pilou
                                    Is beautiful that please without concept!
                                    My Little site :)

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                                      mlefevre
                                      last edited by

                                      I'm trying to use this plugin to drop a bunch of solar panels to a surface. Some of the blocks drop fine, but others turn up on end. Any thoughts?

                                      Thanks

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                                      • tt_suT Offline
                                        tt_su
                                        last edited by

                                        No idea without test screenshots or preferable a test model.

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                                        • tt_suT Offline
                                          tt_su
                                          last edited by

                                          Hard to tell without a model...

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                                            AcesHigh
                                            last edited by

                                            Can someone help me? It´s kinda urgent. Basically, For some reason, the components are NOT dropping until the ground. I verified the axis of the component, verified everything, but it still doesn´t work. It´s also weird, but it doesnt work with the other plugin (Drop At Intersection) too!!

                                            They drop only a few centimeters. Unless I "drop by bounding box", but then, when dropping by bounding box, the components follow the contour of the terrain (which gets pretty weird for lightpoles)


                                            perguntadropcomponent.skp

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