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    [Plugin] Triangulate Points

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    • TIGT Offline
      TIG Moderator
      last edited by

      If you examine the points cloud it occupies barely 1 sq mm - so some are very close!
      I scaled it up x100 and it faced fine...
      As Rich says you can make very small facets in Sketchup <~0.5mm will usually fail.
      I suspect the points were perhaps let's say in 'm' and you imported in 'mm' ?Capture.PNG

      TIG

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      • P Offline
        pav180
        last edited by

        Wow! While I was working on my reply TIG has triangulated my point cloud. Great! But it was a planar model and I did the same in SU 7.1 (I can still not manage TIG's package in SU 8), let's do something more difficult.

        I scan with my3dscanner.com, I receive and download a .ply point cloud, than I import it into SU as CSV via Cloud_V7.1 (6 or 8).

        I am testing SU plugins to triangulate. I get bad results if I try to triangulate the whole model either by Cloud_V8 or great TIG package.

        I have scaled the model, but it didn't work. I am a little confused about scaling (my3dscanner HAS NO SCALE AT ALL which is bad), but scaling proposed by Rich did not work for Lion model.

        My point is to illustrate bad results (this is what Rich has asked for) if you mesh the model as a whole and if it is complex, not planar.

        This is a workflow: .ply dense point cloud, csv sparse point cloud imported into SU, bad triangulation results.

        LionSUNotGood.jpg

        I do know that if I triangulate a model in portions it will work. Little by little. I also suspect model orientation is a key. You are welcomed to play with the file I tried to triangulate (unfortunately CSV format is not supported here).

        Please be forgiving to my questions and comments. Sadly I know very little about SU and I am here to learn, not to promote my3dscanner which I used to be one of the developers. I feel awkward discussing these matters with gurus of SU.


        LionScaled.skp

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        • TIGT Offline
          TIG Moderator
          last edited by

          You might have made it too big by x10 but that's better than too small...
          The use of a points cloud import is typically from surveyed land, so it's not expecting a 3D object - more a countoured surface.
          I suggest you slice you points in something like 'half' horizontally and then merge the two surfaces together later... More like making a mold or a face-mask than a full 3D object straight off...

          TIG

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          • P Offline
            pav180
            last edited by

            TIG,

            I see your point. Size limitation comment was very helpull as well. Thank you, guys!

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            • P Offline
              pav180
              last edited by

              And TIG, your triangulation plugin works in SU8 beautifully. I was a dumb head...

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              • thomthomT Offline
                thomthom
                last edited by

                It does not respect "Cancel" as a response to the inputbox...

                Thomas Thomassen — SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
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                • TIGT Offline
                  TIG Moderator
                  last edited by

                  It never did - even in Didier's original version!
                  If you cancel the layer naming dialog then it'll use layer 'nil' - e.g. 'Layer0'.
                  Once you run the tool it runs the processing to the end - the layer dialog only lets you determine a layer for the mesh-group if desired, with cancel canceling the layer naming but not the main tool's operation, which carries on relentlessly. Frankly the whole layer part could be omitted, it's results are all grouped and you could easily re-layer that as desired later... 😒

                  TIG

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                  • TIGT Offline
                    TIG Moderator
                    last edited by

                    Here's v1.1...
                    http://sketchucation.com/plugin/1110-tig_points_cloud_triangulation
                    It fixes an issue discovered with the encoding of the helper file "delauney3.rb" - which was found to be incompatible with SketchUp v2014 and Ruby2...

                    TIG

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                    • B Offline
                      Baumgarten87
                      last edited by

                      I don't know what I'm doing wrong. I'm working on Sketchup 2014, installed the latest compatible version of the extension and when trying to triangulate a point cloud it always tells me "no guide-points selected". What is that I might be doing wrong?

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                      • M Offline
                        Mill29
                        last edited by

                        Same here

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                        • TIGT Offline
                          TIG Moderator
                          last edited by

                          Are you actually selecting the guide-points before running the script ?
                          Remember that if they are inside a group/component you must edit it, then select them before running the script...

                          TIG

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                            schifezzevarie
                            last edited by

                            Hi Im' searching for the related "delaunay3.rb" pluging but I cannot find it, as the link in teh beginnig of teh post is not working. Could you fix that or give us a different link?
                            Thanks a lot. 😄

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                            • TIGT Offline
                              TIG Moderator
                              last edited by

                              Version 2.0 is available from the PluginsStore.
                              https://sketchucation.com/pluginstore?pln=TIG_points_cloud_triangulation
                              It fixes issues with delauney3.rb using Constants in away that newer SketchUp versions Ruby chokes on, t also includes some tweaks of the main code - Layers v. Tags etc, and the RBZ is now signed...

                              TIG

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