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    [Plugin] Silhouette to Plane v1.1

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    • EarthMoverE Offline
      EarthMover
      last edited by

      Great Script! 👍 Perfect for sorting out faces that have trouble closing. Could you possibly have it so that if no work plane is selected, that it will default to a placing the silhouette on the 0 z plane? Similar to ThomThoms Flatten script in his "Plan Tools", except yours automagically creates the face and groups it.

      3D Artist at Clearstory 3D Imaging
      Guide Tool at Winning With Sketchup
      Content Creator at Skapeup

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      • TIGT Online
        TIG Moderator
        last edited by

        @earthmover said:

        Great Script! 👍 Perfect for sorting out faces that have trouble closing. Could you possibly have it so that if no work plane is selected, that it will default to a placing the silhouette on the 0 z plane? Similar to ThomThoms Flatten script in his "Plan Tools", except yours automagically creates the face and groups it.

        You could always make a quick WorkPlane on the ground...

        TIG

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        • shuraS Offline
          shura
          last edited by

          Just great! You are a hero, hats off to thee!


          hats_off.jpg

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          • TIGT Online
            TIG Moderator
            last edited by

            Here's an example...Capture.PNG

            TIG

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            • pilouP Offline
              pilou
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              This sort of image must be at each first post 😄

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

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              • EarthMoverE Offline
                EarthMover
                last edited by

                Here's another example.

                Silhouette to plane is also great for flattening a set of looped edges you want to be planar to form a face, but cant seem to find the vert that's out of whack.


                Flatten to plan.jpg

                3D Artist at Clearstory 3D Imaging
                Guide Tool at Winning With Sketchup
                Content Creator at Skapeup

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                • X Offline
                  xrok1
                  last edited by

                  this could be great for making face me components! render the 3d version then apply as texture to the 2d. 😄

                  “There are three classes of people: those who see. Those who see when they are shown. Those who do not see.”

                  http://www.Twilightrender.com try it!

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                  • B Offline
                    Ben Ritter
                    last edited by

                    TIG, fabulous! Thank you for the flatten to plane script as well. You are very generous, and gifted.

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                      caleidos4d
                      last edited by

                      TIG!!!

                      http://www.caleidos4d.it

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                        danbig
                        last edited by

                        Thanks, TIG. Amazing script.

                        Does this plugin do the flatten to plane, or is that a separate plugin? I can't seem to find the command for flatten to plane. (Silhouette to Plane is working great)

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                        • shuraS Offline
                          shura
                          last edited by

                          Flatten to Plane:

                          http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=323&t=31895

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                          • shuraS Offline
                            shura
                            last edited by

                            Just to point out again what Adam already said, Silhouette to Workplane makes closing difficult outlines sooo easy. Brought back the faith in freehand tool to me.

                            with freehand tool quickly drawn outlines often do not close. solved with silhouettes to workplane.

                            Rocky, that is a pretty smart idea. I am having thoughts about this kind of matte painting tricks all the time.
                            (like here: http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=79&t=31069)

                            thanks again for your generosity TIG!

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                            • JClementsJ Offline
                              JClements
                              last edited by

                              TIG:
                              When I click on the script's download button the #SilhoutteTpoPlane.rb downloads. I put the script in the plugins directory of SU8. When I open SU8 I get the following error:

                              %(#FF0000)[Error Loading File #SilhouetteToPlane.rb
                              no such file to load -- #WorkPlane.rb
                              ]

                              Should #WorkPlane.rb also have been downloaded?

                              Regards, John

                              John | Illustrator | Beaverton, Oregon

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                              • TIGT Online
                                TIG Moderator
                                last edited by

                                @jclements said:

                                TIG:
                                When I click on the script's download button the #SilhoutteTpoPlane.rb downloads. I put the script in the plugins directory of SU8. When I open SU8 I get the following error:

                                %(#FF0000)[Error Loading File #SilhouetteToPlane.rb
                                no such file to load -- #WorkPlane.rb
                                ]

                                Should #WorkPlane.rb also have been downloaded?

                                Regards, John

                                John
                                IF you had read the notes you'd see that you need 'WorkPlane.rb'... because you must first make and then select a 'WorkPlane' with your other parts you want to project - that's how it knows what plane to project its result on to... 😒

                                TIG

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                                • CAntonisC Offline
                                  CAntonis
                                  last edited by

                                  Working great as always

                                  Thank U TIG

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                                  • B Offline
                                    Bertier
                                    last edited by

                                    sweet

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                                      Heven7_floor
                                      last edited by

                                      Thanks 😍 , it is great script for mechanic model favour, this plug-in shall mostly advance to project 3d model in STD plan,

                                      but I found some error happen, when I test by simple cylinder ,which was rotated a bit from origin , there are 1 error time of total 4 time

                                      I love this script , and hope it could been tune-up ,but I am begin to learn for SU plugin codding , shame to less helping 😳


                                      rotate cylinder model testing

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                                      • JClementsJ Offline
                                        JClements
                                        last edited by

                                        TIG, not sure if this is how you intended the script to work or not.

                                        Using SU8. If I select a bunch of standalone geometry and a couple of groups, only the standalone geometry gets project to the working plane. Each group has to be selected individually to be projected.

                                        John | Illustrator | Beaverton, Oregon

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                                        • TIGT Online
                                          TIG Moderator
                                          last edited by

                                          @jclements said:

                                          TIG, not sure if this is how you intended the script to work or not.

                                          Using SU8. If I select a bunch of standalone geometry and a couple of groups, only the standalone geometry gets project to the working plane. Each group has to be selected individually to be projected.

                                          Everything should project I'll check into it...
                                          Do you get the same 'error' with components too ?

                                          TIG

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                                          • JClementsJ Offline
                                            JClements
                                            last edited by

                                            Hi TIG:

                                            Yes, the script works with SU8 and with components. However, the selection set seems to require that it include all of one type of geometry only, either: all loose geometry or all groups or all components.

                                            Attached is the test .skp I used.

                                            John


                                            Silhouette test (SU8, 07 Dec 2010).skp

                                            John | Illustrator | Beaverton, Oregon

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