Valiarchitects - plugins
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no I don't have that issue with Solo's gifs... I'm using Chrome.
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Hello all,
I'm very happy that people here have taken the time to try out my scripts. Thanks for the kind words! Yes, I suppose it's not that clear on my website what the difference between the free and pro versions are. (My wife was right again). So here it is:
Instant Roof free version limitation:
The free version will only create the following roof slopes: 1/8:12 (0.6 degrees) ; 2:12 (9.5 degrees) ; 6:12 (26.6 degrees) ; 16:12 (53 degrees) or 24:12 (63 degrees).
The pro version does not have this limitation and will create roof slopes between 1/8:12 (0.6 degrees) and 24:12 (63 degrees)Instant Road free version limitations:
Shoulder width is limited to 36 inches (91 cm) maximum
The 'Make Road from Center Line Edge(s)' method limits road widths to the range: 6 feet - 10 feet (182 cm - 304 cm)
Curb width is limited to 6 inches (15 cm) - (no sidewalks in the free version)
The pro version does not have any of these limitations.Instant Site Grader free version limitation:
Shoulder width is limited to 36 inches (91 cm) maximum
The pro version is not limited.BTW, I want to extend special thanks to Chris Fullmer. I started writing these plugins after watching his SketchUp ruby scripting tutorials.
Chuck
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Welcome Chuck, I'd say your going to be real busy from the interest generated here!!! I'm going to download and have a play....
This is what the architectural / Construction industry needed!!
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welcome Chuck... great plugins... already made my purchase. gonna save me loads of time and make my work look much better. I can't wait to make some driveways and walkways.
for future ideas I was wondering if I could get InstantHouse, InstantConstructionDocs and InstantWife? and while we're at it InstantCash?
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@krisidious said:
welcome Chuck... great plugins... already made my purchase. gonna save me loads of time and make my work look much better. I can't wait to make some driveways and walkways.
for future ideas I was wondering if I could get InstantHouse, InstantConstructionDocs and InstantWife? and while we're at it InstantCash?
There's sure to be bugs with 'instantWife' plugin, Kris. Maybe an instantMistriss' plugin might be safer; when it crashes, it and use for a while till there is an update.....
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@chuck vali said:
Hello all,
I'm very happy that people here have taken the time to try out my scripts. Thanks for the kind words! ...
Chuck
Hi Chuck and welcome!
Indeed very cool plugins; thanks for the free versions and good luck with the pro ones!
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I also love the plugin instant Roof, Haven't downloaded the others yet. I will surly be thinking about going pro on this one!Seems well worth the asking price, its just right now I'm broker than uncle Sam without China! I do plan on purchasing it but first I just got to stop laughing at the Instant Wife and Instant Cash ideas! I live in America so depending on who you are the Instant Cash is taken care of I think cause they'll just print more as you need it but the Instant Wife you may have a problem with but then again it may come as a combo with the Instant Cash? Got the cash you got wife? Chuck, all jokes a side nice plugins and like someone has already said the Instant roof plugin is what architectural/contruction industry for sketchup need I think!
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Chuck
This is a really great set of plugins. Really looking forward to using them. Nice find diego. -
I agree with everyone, this is a great find - thank you Chuck for creating these time savers. I have gone through the tutorials and will be downloading the free versions this morning - probably upgrading by lunch time!
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As above this is just the best plugin. Do you have a tutorial on the
Edit Slope, Eave and Fascia Settings?
Edit Hips and Rafters Settings?
or should I just play around until I understand the functions
Thanks
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Hi Chuck,
Welcome to SCF, and what an introduction. Great toolset. I've been a long time user of 1001bits and this is like it long lost sister.
Congrats
Rich
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Hi everybody!
"Instant" has kind of been a joke around my house recently too. With me as the butt. I've actually been working on the instantCash program since Fortran days, but I could only ever get it to decrement - never increment.
Here's a link to a pdf where I attempt to show what most of the roof, eave, fascia, rafter and hip parameters do: http://www.valiarchitects.com/sites/default/files/tutorials/pdf/Roof-parameters.pdf
Thanks for all the comments.
Chuck
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Fortran.
Must be in your 60's?
First computer class I ever took (1968). Took longer punching the cards and standing in line to submit them and to get the printout two days later than to figure how to write the 30 or-so line do-loop.
Congratulations of some very useful scripts, Chuck.
Regards, John
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Hi Chuck
WOW
Question ?
Have not tried Road King yet but will the road follow a preset path using standard highway slopes/grades and such or is it just a contour follower?
Really slick stuff and thanks for such good docs too.dtr
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New question:
Does it work with SU 7.1 free
or just 8.0 Pro?Is path hard coded to standard SU install?
If so how about an install that has a path option?Road does not work for me with SU 7.1 free std path and does not show in Plugins for non standard SU 8 Pro path.
thx
dtr
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Thanks for your help chuck!! Much appreciated.
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That Road plugin looks great! Perfect for making roads in Unity too.
OT; It was funny listening to some of the word pronunciations in the videos too- like "roof" pronounced "ruuf"- like a dogs bark!
I noticed that the TornadoTwins who make Unity instructional videos on YouTube also say "Hoover" instead of 'hover'. It's just an accent thing that I've always found fascinating (like the American accent, essentially being an Irish accent mixed with German- well that's what the American accent sounds like to me!).Great plugins. I will probably buy these- especially if the roof plugins can cope with buildings constructed with odd angled walls- like British Edwardian houses for eg.
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@unknownuser said:
Must be in your 60's?
First computer class I ever took (1968). Took longer punching the cards and standing in line to submit them and to get the printout two days later than to figure how to write the 30 or-so line do-loop
.Close - I'm 52. I had similar experiences with card punching before I dropped the class. Plus, my professor said that computer programmers would never make any money.
@unknownuser said:
Have not tried Road King yet but will the road follow a preset path using standard highway slopes/grades and such or is it just a contour follower?
Sorry, it doesn't do anything that fancy. I intended it as more of a schematic design tool. The script takes road center points, finds the corresponding terrain elevations and attempts to make a road with level cross slopes at those elevations. That's really all it does.
Chuck
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chuck
i have been trying out your instant road plugin prior to buying but seem to be haveing trouble obtaining the same results as the demo ( both in su 7.1 and 8 ) your comments please
attached file shows the result
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Reply to Grim,
The terrain has to be larger than the road plus the shoulder width. So I scaled up the terrain slightly to get it to work. But it made kind of a bumpy road. That's because the road precision was much tighter than the terrain spacing - which makes the road follow the coarse terrain. So in the next copy, I reduced the precision of the road by changing the "adjust number of curve segments" parameter from "3x" to "same as input" and the road was less bumpy. Try turning on hidden lines to see what I mean.
As for "try before buy", all that pro does is let you make a few things wider - everything else is the same. So please see if you like it first. (And can figure out all my cryptic parameters)
Chuck
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