[Plugin] Super Drape

TIG

Place the group to be draped vertically above the group that it is to be draped onto.

Run the tool.

Pick the [upper] group which is to be draped.
Pick the [lower] group which is to be draped onto.

Note:

All faces in both groups must be oriented upwards.

The material[s] in the upper group will be applied to the draped parts in the lower group.

That error-message suggests that you are picking the lower group first, and then picking it again ?

rstanley

Yjmls Yog for suggesimg that I had to further explode the drape objects and the potential draped object but that was not the problem. I discovered that the problem was my own lack of patience.
For me at least SD is not immediate but only gradually transfers the material: It first downloads the outline of yhe draped object, then slowly imprints the material content of the draped image onto that outline.. I draped the word "text object" (out of SKP's 3d text tool) onto a simple curved cylnder surface/ ( It took about 30 sec.) The material infilling then followed (It took another 45 sec..and occurred in sequence...Just a heads up for other users who are expecting an immediate transfer .. My SKP pro 15 and memory etc are all otherwise good and as fast as expected when using other elements of skp.

rv1974

Doesn't work in v2023

TIG

It does work on all current SketchUp versions, but after its installation it then has to be enabled in your Extension Manager dialog [once], note that it's also 'unsigned' [because it's so old] and your Extension Manager's Loading Policy therefore needs to be set as 'Unrestricted'...

rv1974

thank you TIG I found it (though why its disabled by default isn't 100% clear to me). I decided to use it in 2023 because for some reason the regular drape stopped to work in v2023 inside groups.
BTW in situation with 2 primitive squares (the lower one is sloped) SuperDrape fails.
P.S. Any chance to make the plugin less restrictive? I mean to work with raw geometry, and as option, to treat the pre-selected geometry as to-be-draped?

Dave R

Move the first group up a little bit above the bounding box for the second group.

rv1974

@dave r said:

Move the first group up a little bit above the bounding box for the second group.

thanks, it helped!

tomaszdrgas

I was long time thinking about something including Your drape but even more complicated.. that's why I didn't do it.. is way over me..
I mean like Your drape but somehow remembering the terrain on which it is draped. For landscaping purpose.. You draw in a group Your terrain not to complicated.. than You drape a road lines etc from another group that it is completely flat.. If You see that some area requires some refinement You context click on it .. let say something like "edit base group" You add some details and all updates automatic..
Maybe some way to include eventually push pulls from the draped group.. like to keep the edge of the road and pavement..
and You could draw some additional detail in the flat group and click update.. (automatic update would be way to heavy I guess).
Like I said.. I can make some very simple plugin.. make my toolbar.. but that is way over me..

rv1974

It's already exist. It's called 3ds max with it's subdivide retopo tyconform procedural modifiers.