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    [Plugin] SurfaceGen (0.9.0b) — 28 April 2012

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      make.GQ.china
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      👍 Thank you very much! Good plugin

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        Heven7_floor
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        Thanks you very great plugin 👍 👍

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          boilingsnow
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          Very cool plugin!
          But a progress bar could be very helpful. Because I 've installed it and by performing the plugin it seems to take hours to generate a surface and I don't know if it is really working!

          I've waited for more than 25 minutes for a simple eqation so I have to give up finally...
          In other words, I can't get it work in my sketchup 8.

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            imabzeous
            last edited by

            a very nice plugin, ( as i have seen only in pics and shapes that you have created) but i don't understand where can i get equations for it? i want to make some fractal geometry but when i applied the equation it wont work. so can any body help me with this equation thing more..

            and thank you

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              boilingsnow
              last edited by

              @boilingsnow said:

              Very cool plugin!
              But a progress bar could be very helpful. Because I 've installed it and by performing the plugin it seems to take hours to generate a surface and I don't know if it is really working!

              I've waited for more than 25 minutes for a simple eqation so I have to give up finally...
              In other words, I can't get it work in my sketchup 8.

              I figured out that SurfaceGen has a conflict with another plugin calls 'Modelfuction'.
              If you get Modelfuction installed in your sketchup, you can see the pop-up window by applying Surfacegen, but it will not create any surface.
              I have uninstalled Modelfunction now and SurfaceGen works well!

              By the way this is really a awesome plugin. So it would be perfect if the author can get rid of the conflict with other plugins...

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                TIG Moderator
                last edited by

                I far as I can see SurfaceGen does not use any unusual methods or interfere with base/built-in classes/methods. However, Modelfunction may well do that - there are a few scripts will ill-advisedly mess with these and thereby they affect other tools unpredictably [often messing with 'group', 'face' etc].
                As Modelfunction is a paid tool [and you must be a customer] I suggest you contact the author direct to get him to fix his code...

                TIG

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                  Diggsey
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                  I haven't posted in ages, but I just noticed that there was a way I could improve the speed of this plugin. The new version only calls "eval" once to create a proc object which it then calls repeatedly, so it shouldn't have to keep parsing the expression each time.

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                    thomthom
                    last edited by

                    I added version number and time of update to the thread title so it's easier to see the change when scanning the thread titles - also the Plugin Index works better then.

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

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                      ramdelgp
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                      @unknownuser said:

                      ah very cool! 😎
                      Topmod and K3dSurf in a same place! 👍
                      (you can take some formula from K3DSurf 😉

                      @unknownuser said:

                      For now, I'm just playing, but I have dreams of making some beautiful math sculptures like Bathsheba Grossmanmakes.

                      Topmod above is perfect for that 😉
                      by me 😄

                      http://forums.polyloop.net/imagehosting/1964703b3c059111.jpg

                      By Jotero

                      http://www.jotero.com/bilder/topmod/soccer_ball_jotero2007.jpg

                      Wooow did you made does models? simply amazin.
                      can you share some tutotials?

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                        brookefox
                        last edited by

                        Wonderful tool, Diggsey. Many thanks. Nice that folks are sharing their settings. I wish someone with the appropriate skills or not would chart up some many examples, something like the pic below, and/or list many equations to experiment with. I do not have those skills. I had modeled something like the intersecting sine waves not long ago manually... tch, tch.

                        surfacegen-collection-1.JPG

                        ~ Brooke

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                          pilou
                          last edited by

                          @unknownuser said:

                          Wooow did you made does models? simply amazin.
                          can you share some tutotials?

                          All models are made with TopMod
                          I have made the first 😉
                          I have made a little tut video ☀
                          (sorry in French but very visual)

                          Else you will find some very cool tutorials videos here 😉
                          (explore the site)
                          It's a very crazzy program! 😎
                          By me (French UI too by me 😉 Don't make renders inside Topmod (export as OBJ Render here in ZBrush)

                          http://www.polyloop.net/imagehosting/19646f79a19764f7.jpg

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

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                          • brookefoxB Offline
                            brookefox
                            last edited by

                            Model collection (as shown in previous post) for for you to add your model/s to.

                            surfacegen plugin models.skp

                            surfacegen-collection-1.JPG

                            ~ Brooke

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                              Schaefer
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                              hello! i need that for mathematical- educational purposes for sketchup make 2017 - or a similiar plugin, updatet to 2018. Does anybody have some information, where to get it. i couldn't find thomtoms surfacegen in the sketchucation-library. thanks, r. schaefer

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                              • TIGT Offline
                                TIG Moderator
                                last edited by

                                It's in the PluginStore, made into an RBZ format download.
                                https://sketchucation.com/pluginstore?pln=surfacegen
                                It's not Thomthom's, it's Diggsey's plugin...
                                It'll probably still work in v2018 - however, because it's old and unsigned, you'll need to set the SketchUp Extension Manager's Loading Policy to "Unrestricted"...

                                TIG

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