[Plugin]Hole on Solid tool v1.6.3 upadate Jan 09, 2012

simon le bon

Update in Jan 03,2012
:Add new function,Punching multiple holes.

It would be very interesting to drill holes by lot in case of large number of windows for exemple...

this new enhancement is working very fine

Congratulations dear tak2hata You've mastered herein a pretty good tool

@cocotier
Please remember that
This tool is intended to make holes on "solids" -> closed volumes set as group or component. This is not completely true since the following enhancement:
Update in Dec 14 ,2011:
Hole on unoccluded faces group(Tentative)
The group or component walls we want to pierce don't have to be solid anymore

simon

irwanwr

the new feature works well for me too. thank you.

boilingsnow

Hi,tak2hata.
Your Multi Hole Tool is very interesting and useful. But with Multi Hole I can only make holes into a solid using faces as definition of the form for the holes, with a component or group it fails to make holes into any solid...I can see in your video that you are using a group or component. Can you tell me how you can make it?

jorge2011

excellent and thank you very much.
Two requests for future versions.
You can add a function: projecting faces in a solid?
You can add a function to hole or project a face, in multiple solid?

tak2hata

Hi,I did not change title of topic in Jan 03,2012.I modeified title.

Hi,boilingsnow.
hole of component
The componet for hole must have cut openning option.
Reference about component here. http://support.google.com/sketchup/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=114526

Hi,jorge2011.
I will consider your Proposal.
Thanks.

guanjin

Creating the Component Selection cutting openings, holes can not be achieved? ? ?

tak2hata

@guanjin said:

Creating the Component Selection cutting openings, holes can not be achieved? ? ?
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Hi,XIAOLONG.
Outline for cut openning must be drawn on X-Y Plane( Red and Green axis).
When the component is already existed,You rotate axis in that component.
And outline must be placed in the root of that component.
[attachment=0:1jixhd7j]outline_must_be_on_xyplane.jpg[/attachment:1jixhd7j]
Watch for reference to create cut openning option.
http://youtu.be/0g6irIj---w
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Thanks.

outline must be on xy-plane

guanjin

@tak2hata said:

@guanjin said:

Creating the Component Selection cutting openings, holes can not be achieved? ? ?
[attachment=2:24c8pe63]rrrrrrrr.gif[/attachment:24c8pe63]

Hi,XIAOLONG.
Outline for cut openning must be drawn on X-Y Plane( Red and Green axis).
When the component is already existed,You rotate axis in that component.
And outline must be placed in the root of that component.
[attachment=1:24c8pe63]outline_must_be_on_xyplane.jpg[/attachment:24c8pe63]
Watch for reference to create cut openning option.
http://youtu.be/0g6irIj---w
Thanks.

Thank you! Have learned to see demo:
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charly2008

Hello tak2hata,

Your tool is impressive. I've done some experiments with it. It works really well. One question I have is it possible a component that contains some single solids to cut completely into the wall.

Charly

example001-1.skp

tak2hata

Hi,everyone.
I update in jan 09,2012.
Its version is 1.63.

Bug fix.The hole from polygon mades smoothed side faces. it's improved.
I found from dave's post,and irwanwr's message.
Thanks. Dave and irwanwr.

Hi,Charly2008.
That problem is not solved yet.
I will improve it,when I find the solution in future.
Thanks.

irwanwr

hi tak2hata,
thank you thank you very much for your generosity

charly2008

@tak2hata said:

Hi,Charly2008.
That problem is not solved yet.
I will improve it,when I find the solution in future.
Thanks.

thank you very much for your answer

Charly

jorge2011

Thank you. Excellency update.
Only a small error.
It does not work the command "Ctrl + Z". deleted one by one holes

urs0815

Great plug in

an option to set the depth of the hole would be great...

jorge2011

tak2hata

See litle fix.you can fix that?
Thank you very much

01.skp

tak2hata

@jorge2011 said:

tak2hata

See litle fix.you can fix that?
Thank you very much

jorge2011.....
I try your model.
And I move the face for hole to very small distance.It succeed.

The hidden line in the curved face is intersected with the hole on touch.

I will inquire about it.
Thanks.

carlm

Hi-

I've installed the 1.6.3 plugin, but when I first re-opened SU the little Hole on Solid toolbox was "in my way" so I closed it -- now I can't figure out how to get it back. I can choose the plugin from the Plugin menu and it works to make single holes, but I've no menu access to the Multi-Hole variant of the tool, and no obvious way to re-open the toolbox...

Any ideas?

Thanks, -carl-

(SU8 amateur, MacOS 10.5.8)

TIG

Menu > View > Toolbars > the_Tool's_Name
On a MAC it might be called something like 'Tool-Palettes' ?

carlm

@tig said:

Menu > View > Toolbars > the_Tool's_Name
On a MAC it might be called something like 'Tool-Palettes' ?

Doh!

View>Tool Palettes

And there's your 2D tools palette as well.

Thanks, -carl-

jgt1942

@tak2hata said:

The face and solid must be in same Group or Component or Model.
And ComponentInstance for hole must have hole option.
It is rule of this plugin.

Sorry newbie question - It took me a few hours (OK I'm really slow) to realize that the face could NOT be part of the solid. I'm having a couple of problems (1) creating the face - every-time I attempt to create the face it becomes part of the solid (2) I copied in a test object for the face but I cannot get it accurately positioned. Example I'm drawing a woodworking object and I need to have the hold precisely positioned and sized.

I've got to study a bit more to fully understand your statement in the above quote. If you have a reference video to explain what you have in the quote, for me that would be super helpful.

The concept is super and in the example file I downloaded it works GREAT! I'm using SU 8.