Mantinence release coming soon.
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Really excited to see you back.
My ruby knowledge is limited but I love SP and think the potential is huge - let me know if there is anything I can do to help in terms of testing etc.
Have spent time playing with SP in conjunction with a tool called joytokey to allow me to run dual logitech joysticks and simulate prototype heavy machinery (similar to an excavator operator's configuration).
People are blown away when I can let them virtually 'drive' a prototype machine, make a quick geometric modification to it and let them 'drive' it again with the new modification.
Be very encouraged Chris - your work is brilliant
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AshCott, can you describe a little more your experience with joytokey. Looks intriguing.
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@mptak said:
AshCott, can you describe a little more your experience with joytokey. Looks intriguing.
Well, SP allows you to refer to a single joystick for control by default. This is also the arrow keys which represent the various axes of the joystick.
However, one joystick is not enough so I used joytokey to assign keyboard commands that can be defined in SP to a second joystick.So when I pull back on my second joystick, joytokey tells the system that "s" is being pressed. This way I can put a whole new set of functions into SP with the second joystick.
The limitation is that, with the primary joystick in SP, your input is along a scale. For example; if you have a motor set up to respond when you tilt the primary joystick right, the motor will speed up the harder you push the primary joystick to the right. With joytokey, the system is interpretting the secondary joystick as simply a set of buttons so, although it gives the illusion of a real world operator situation, the functions on the secondary joystick are either 'off' or 'on'....not variable like the primary joystick. It still does the trick though.
Hope that makes sense - there is probably a better way to do what I am doing but joytokey is my initial, hacky, solution
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Anything I can do to help with this Chris? - Testing etc?
Ash
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Thanks but not yet ready for testing.
Kinda waiting for Trimble to release a new version of SU. I assume there is one coming since the google buyout.
Chris
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Ok, a new release will influence the way SP runs?
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@cphillips said:
Kinda waiting for Trimble to release a new version of SU. I assume there is one coming since the google buyout.
Next version will be "SketchUp 2013". When in 2013 it will be released has not been mentioned.
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2013? Hmm. Might have to do something before that.
No, the new release will not need any new features. Just wanted to be current.
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and I was so enjoying the ever ascending numeration, Sketchup 21 would have been due in 2050 (thought-based modeling plugin comes standard with install package).
I'm jumping out of my lopsided desk chair to see the potential of SP's next iteration, even if its only bug fixes it will be awesome.
I know little about coding but is it worth putting SP on Github and try to get a community of coders around to help Chris out?
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@cphillips said:
2013? Hmm. Might have to do something before that.
They released SU8 M4 with the Trimble re-brand because their contract said so. That is the first Trimble release.
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@thomthom said:
@cphillips said:
2013? Hmm. Might have to do something before that.
They released SU8 M4 with the Trimble re-brand because their contract said so. That is the first Trimble release.
I have just recently installed that and it runs great. The desktop icon has changed.
I already miss the old one. All plug-ins work without problems.Looking forward to SketchyPhysics update. I have some future projects that it will be great for.
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Look forward to any and all updates. I have avoided updating to the latest su release partly cause I can't bear to part with the Sketchy Physics Piano but would love to take the plunge so I could dive more into Layout.
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Any word on this Chris?
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SU 2013 doesn't appear to have any drastic changes - I hope it hasn't thrown up any hurdles to SP development? http://www.sketchup.com/products/sketchup-pro/new-in-2013
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