[Plugin] Honeycomber

SUFractal

@tig said:

Try with a 4" cube it'd take a fraction of the time! [with ~125+ perforations, each with 8 faces etc]
This one took ~2 minutes.[attachment=0:97y792mn]Capture4.PNG[/attachment:97y792mn]
I replicated your 8" cube on my PC and it eventually made it in ~150 minutes .
There are ~729+ perforations, each with 8 faces etc... It all adds up...
So it is not just 10x slower, because the more entities you add to a context the slower Sketchup runs disproportionately... each extra step adds exponentially, time-wise.

I think you don't need so many holes ???

If you open Task Manager when running a looooong process you will see that Sketchup is still working.
It's just taking a-g-e-s to process all of the needed geometry...

In passing... please adjust your default Template's, Model Info > Units to show some decimal inches !

4" cube with simple perforation offers no change in operation.
I'll continue to work in the units I need, thanks.

guanjin

Complex point of the porous,the generation process is very slow.

TIG

Guanjin

The more geometry there is the slower the processing.
It's inevitable.
Set it running and make some tea...

guanjin

@tig said:

Guanjin

The more geometry there is the slower the processing.
It's inevitable.
Set it running an make some tea...

Thank you of TIG: you have worked hard, so many good tools for free use, you are great!

EscapeArtist

Awesome plugin. I have enjoyed using it so far, just experimenting.

I have noticed it will hang if I breathe wrong when applying a large number of perforations. I can't tab to another program, it will simply lock SU up.

An idea - would it be possible to add a "random" or mathematical feature to the spacing and size? I.e., between 1" to 1'? Add a rotation feature, i.e. each new unit rotates 10 degrees "X", 5 "Y" and 12 "Z" (all 3 axis?), and finally to use one's own model as the subtracted shape?

I realize this may be completely prohibitive by SU's single core use and the added complexity of any intersections, but just a thought. One could come up with almost fractal-like iterations in a medium with these options.

TIG

It's almost certainly not 'hanging'.
It just takes ages to process and left to its own devices it will complete [eventually!]
Use the Task Manager to see that Sketchup is still processing away, although the screen has a 'white-out' - it's one of the quirks of SUp, when it's doing intensive calculations it looses the screen...
It does take a while to make all of the changes to the geometry - have patience...

I do have some recoding ideas to speed it up [a little], but testing takes time too...

ideas_arte

@tig said:

It is for v8-Pro only.

"Free" users will have any chance of using this excellent tool?

Best regards!

TIG

v8-Pro only because it uses several API techniques only accessible to Pro - sorry...

TIG

Here's v1.3 http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?p=395061#p395061
The speed has been improved by ~4x.
The 'shell' version still takes ~4x longer than an un-shelled version because of the many extra steps required - but while ~15 minutes is worse that ~4minutes, it is better than ~60 minutes !!
Some minor glitches have also been fixed with 3-sided setting out centrally.

ideas_arte

@tig said:

sorry...

I understand. Thank you for all the good work. My best wishes for you

guanjin

@tig said:

Here's v1.3 http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?p=395061#p395061
The speed has been improved by ~4x.
The 'shell' version still takes ~4x longer than an un-shelled version because of the many extra steps required - but while ~15 minutes is worse that ~4minutes, it is better than ~60 minutes !!
Some minor glitches have also been fixed with 3-sided setting out centrally.

Thank of TIG: Speed is the key, to test the new file。

dtolios

Amazing work, great potential for this tool...
Unfortunately is too slow for some of the complex shapes I had in mind, but I have trust that it will get better overtime (and yeah, my mobile i7 is not the fastest processor anyways...)

charly2008

TIG, you have once again created a surprising and promising tool. Thank you.

SUFractal

@charly2008 said:

TIG, you have once again created a surprising and promising tool. Thank you.

I'm curious as to how long it took you to create this?

TIG

@sufractal said:

@charly2008 said:

TIG, you have once again created a surprising and promising tool. Thank you.

I'm curious as to how long it took you to create this?
I reproduced it [badly!]

EscapeArtist

Just tried the updated version. Very nice, considerably faster!

thraxx2

Hi everyone, i just need a little help here, trying to model up something which I can't. So here it goes:

I used honeyecomber to get the normal triangle tessellation. (first image)
I want to bend it and shape it like this! (second image)

I have been trying lots of ways i can think of but to no avail. thanks guys!

Gerald.

JBJDesigns

Hi TIG!

What an awesome tool! Unfortunately, I'm stuck with SketchUp8 (free). Is there anyway to make this tool work in the free version. If not, I understand.

Thanks for replying!

Jo

cotty

The plugin uses solid functions, which are only available in the PRO version. So I think there will be no (simple and practicable) way for him to change this...

Oxer

Hi TIG,
After much time with the problem on Mac, I can say you the plugin works fine!!
Thanks for the update.