[Plugin][$] TopoShaper - v2.7a - 01 Apr 24

TIG

as ever...

EarthMover

Plugin of the year for me. Been checking in consistently to see if it was released and then today just happened upon it in the Plugin Store from within Sketchup. (Thanks Rich!!!)

Thanks for putting the time and effort into this Fredo. Can't be happier and will definitely donate for this one! You are the man!!

pbacot

Well I had no problem whatsoever with my first trial. This image doesn't do full justice to the model and what I hope to do with it, but I needed these sections first and it was a pretty quick and painless with SU and LO to make this sheet (Low res here for SCF). And Toposhaper... I just clicked and boom it was done-- I raised the grid resolution up a ways (perhaps ridiculously high) and no problem. Made some "groups from sections" and made overlapping scenes in LO. All from a 2d plan (I had a tool in PowerCADD to give the contours elevation).

Thanks Fredo!

A good occasion to donate on.

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utiler

Well done, Fredo. You are the master!!!

ching ching!

andybot

Wow, absolutely, amazingly, WOW!! What an amazing job Fredo, thank you x1000!!

panixia

this is fantastic! thank you one more time!!
a question about your tool interface: is there a way to avoid the text in tool panel being same color of the sketchup line style? i realized this looking at your screenshot.. if i turn on a style with black lines, i can see the text, but i'm used to work with a dark style + white edges and this make the text over yellow or other very light-coloured buttons almost unreadable.. is there a way to set this or some workaround to this? thank you!

fredo6

@panixia said:

this is fantastic! thank you one more time!!
a question about your tool interface: is there a way to avoid the text in tool panel being same color of the sketchup line style? i realized this looking at your screenshot.. if i turn on a style with black lines, i can see the text, but i'm used to work with a dark style + white edges and this make the text over yellow or other very light-coloured buttons almost unreadable.. is there a way to set this or some workaround to this? thank you!

Unfortunately, I have no control on the text color with the current Ruby API. I think that the text color is inherited from the line color.
I will see if I can make a palette style.

Fredo

panixia

@unknownuser said:

I will see if I can make a palette style.

thank you a lot!

maybe if you already got control over the label's color it could also be easier to change them with some colors which can work good with both light or dark line style, pheraps using colors wich ar not much light or much dark..

Hieru

When working on architectural models, generating good topo for a hillside plot can be an absolute pain.

I just tried this on a project that previously took me the best part of a day to deal with the landscaping. A few clicks with this plugin and job done - simply amazing

matt.gordon320

Absolutely astounding work as always sir. A donation will be on it's way soon

EscapeArtist

This is AWESOME. I've been fighting with trying to smooth out some not-so-detailed contours from a USGS map for a while, this ruby did it in a snap with perfect detail. Thank you!

olishea

HUGE time saver!!

Normally i'd have to make construction point grids and then triangulate the points. This is so much more streamlined.

gundamzd

Hi,

Thanks so much for sharing this great plugin. However everytime I click "Calculate Terrain" SketchUp just crashes....and I tried the old sandbox tool it worked OK...can anyone tell me how to resolve this? Thanks so much!

Krisidious

@gundamzd said:

Hi,

Thanks so much for sharing this great plugin. However everytime I click "Calculate Terrain" SketchUp just crashes....and I tried the old sandbox tool it worked OK...can anyone tell me how to resolve this? Thanks so much!

do you have any of these conflicting plugins? and have you downloaded the new libfredo library?

@unknownuser said:

IMPORTANT: Requires to download LibFredo6 4.8 or higher if not already installed

CONFLICTING PLUGINS: some plugins conflicts with some of my scripts
Some versions of Podium
SunPosition
Matchbox

fredo6

@gundamzd said:

Hi,

Thanks so much for sharing this great plugin. However everytime I click "Calculate Terrain" SketchUp just crashes....and I tried the old sandbox tool it worked OK...can anyone tell me how to resolve this? Thanks so much!

Could you post or PM me the contours model so that I have a look.
Does it happen on all models you test (for instance on the sample models which are attached to the first post of this thread)?

Fredo

gundamzd

@unknownuser said:

@gundamzd said:

Hi,

Thanks so much for sharing this great plugin. However everytime I click "Calculate Terrain" SketchUp just crashes....and I tried the old sandbox tool it worked OK...can anyone tell me how to resolve this? Thanks so much!

Could you post or PM me the contours model so that I have a look.
Does it happen on all models you test (for instance on the sample models which are attached to the first post of this thread)?

Fredo

I reinstalled SketchUp and now it's working...must be some other conflicting plugins. Thanks again!

gundamzd

@krisidious said:

@gundamzd said:

Hi,

Thanks so much for sharing this great plugin. However everytime I click "Calculate Terrain" SketchUp just crashes....and I tried the old sandbox tool it worked OK...can anyone tell me how to resolve this? Thanks so much!

do you have any of these conflicting plugins? and have you downloaded the new libfredo library?

@unknownuser said:
IMPORTANT: Requires to download LibFredo6 4.8 or higher if not already installed

CONFLICTING PLUGINS: some plugins conflicts with some of my scripts
Some versions of Podium
SunPosition
Matchbox

You're right it was some other conflicting plugin but solved the problem by re-installing SketchUp. Thanks!

Krisidious

No Problem... Enjoy Fredo's awesome plugin.

plot-paris

Hey Fredo,

pbacot's post made me thinking: One more nifty feature would be "Automatic Elevation".

Oftentimes one receives topographical data in 2D form (each line represents lets say 1 meter, but the actual model is just a 2D plan).
While your plugin does everything else perfectly, one still has to rely on manual labour (or another plugin) to move the contours up one by one.

Therefore this feature request for "Automatic Elevation". It would work as follows:

when analyzing the model, TopoShaper checks, if there is a third dimension to the geometry.
if all the contours reside on a planar surface, the plugin assumes a default step size (1 meter) and offsets each contour line by that distance in z-direction (or perpendicular to the planar surface of the contours).
TopoShaper chooses one boundary-contour as the "bottom" (usually the southern one I would presume) and displays a gizmo, sitting on that contour.
you can drag the gizmo to the other side of the terraint to reverse the direction of elevation
alternatively you get that little popup-window (that is already being used by the plugin) to choose the direction. The gizmo would then jump to the other side
the gizmo shows a vertical scaling-handle (like the green scale knob in the scale tool), which you can use to change the overall height of the terrain
alternatively you can type in a numerical height in the menu at the top of the screen
this "Elevation Gizmo" is deactivated by default, should the plugin find z-elevation already present in the model. It can be toggled on/off in the top menu though

In my opinion, this addition would perfect the plugin! Don't know, if it is possible. But considering what the plugin already does...

Would love to hear your thoughts on this.

pbacot

P-P

Contours, as you know can be convoluted. The tool I use in PowerCADD is more hands-on but goes pretty fast. You set the tool to the height of the contour you want to start with, set the increment and up-down direction. Then as you drag the cursor (in this case needle) it tells you what the contour under the cursor will be, then sets it when you let go. So you can do many contours in a sweep, all with a tag giving their elevation. You let go and they're set. Hovering with the cursor will give the contour's set elevation. And you can change it the same way.

PowerCADD is 2D but it will export such a set of contours in 3d dxf.

P