Profile Builder 2
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The demo looks awesome, but there are some improvements that could be made... or maybe I just don´t know how to use it properly yet.
Let´s say you want to build a fence with a wire mesh.
You set the poles as components. But it seems the plugin was made so the parts connecting the two components should be profiles, otherwise they won´t properly connect in more complex patterns.
Here...
I created two components... the concrete pole and the wire mesh, which is a surface with some ondulation for more realism
Now, this is what happens when using the Plugin. The mesh component, which should connect every two poles, is only rotated in the X and Y directions...
And this is what I would like the plugin to do. I did this manually. I placed the mesh component at an anchor point at the concrete pole. Rotated it horizontally (plugin already does it) so it would properly connect to anchor point in next pole. Then with FREDOSCALE I stretched it to reach the anchor point of next pole (when distance between poles was not exact.
And the most important: I used Fredoscale PLANAR SHEARING, so the connection would be perfect. If this plugin could automatically do these steps I described above, including the shearing, it would be perfect.
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Hi Aces,
That's a difficult one to do with the plugin. In general, it is designed for profiles to be used to connect the components. You should be able to create a polyline profile for the wire mesh instead of a component but it won't be as realistic as what you are trying to achieve. Thanks for the feedback!
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@whaat said:
Hi Aces,
That's a difficult one to do with the plugin. In general, it is designed for profiles to be used to connect the components. You should be able to create a polyline profile for the wire mesh instead of a component but it won't be as realistic as what you are trying to achieve. Thanks for the feedback!
Whaat, wouldn´t you be able to achieve that by using code similar to FredoScale's Planar Shearing? It´s easy to think of other things that would benefit from it, like electricity poles connected by electrical wires (the wires would be an arc... planar shearing them when the poles have different heights would be better looking than rotating the arcs)
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Sometimes when applying a change of the profile size, a BUG SPLAT is produced.
Have you noticed ?? -
@agrazdi said:
Sometimes when applying a change of the profile size, a BUG SPLAT is produced.
Have you noticed ??Did you submit the BugSplats? If you didn't, can you please do? And did you enter any info in the description or name that I can use to look it up?
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@agrazdi said:
Sometimes when applying a change of the profile size, a BUG SPLAT is produced.
Have you noticed ??Hello,
Please describe exactly what you did to reproduce the splat. PB2 was in beta testing for 5 weeks and there was not one report of any bug-splats. If this is caused by PB2, I will try and release a fix as soon as possible.Thanks for the report!
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@aceshigh said:
@whaat said:
Hi Aces,
That's a difficult one to do with the plugin. In general, it is designed for profiles to be used to connect the components. You should be able to create a polyline profile for the wire mesh instead of a component but it won't be as realistic as what you are trying to achieve. Thanks for the feedback!
Whaat, wouldn´t you be able to achieve that by using code similar to FredoScale's Planar Shearing? It´s easy to think of other things that would benefit from it, like electricity poles connected by electrical wires (the wires would be an arc... planar shearing them when the poles have different heights would be better looking than rotating the arcs)
I'll certainly look into this if I keep getting requests for this feature. Thanks!
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@whaat said:
@agrazdi said:
Sometimes when applying a change of the profile size, a BUG SPLAT is produced.
Have you noticed ??Hello,
Please describe exactly what you did to reproduce the splat. PB2 was in beta testing for 5 weeks and there was not one report of any bug-splats. If this is caused by PB2, I will try and release a fix as soon as possible.Thanks for the report!
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I used a lot the first ProfileBuilder, so I just purchased the second edition as it seems very, very promising ...
I'm just playing with it for a couple of minute and I have a couple of question :
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when I build an "assembly" and close the path, the first post on the junction disappear ...
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can we edit an "assembly" path afterward ?
Thanks.
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Install refused 4 times.
How about just a simple time bombed rbz.dtr
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@dtrarch said:
Install refused 4 times.
How about just a simple time bombed rbz.dtr
Hi, Can you post some details here, please? Thanks!
http://forums.sketchup.com/t/profile-builder-2-trial-installation-problem/8341/11
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Is this in the SCF plugin store? I never go to Trimble or use Google login myself.
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nope
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Guess I'll have to start...
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Bought this yesterday, I use PB1 a ton so this is a superb update. Thanks to all involved!
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Load fail
5th time.dtr
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Thanks agrazdi,
I'll fix this ASAP. Look for an update sometime next week. Thanks for the report! -
Profile Builder 2 is great!
I am using it to draw road layouts from profiles of the cross-section of a road with curbs and sometimes a median as well. The road extrudes beautifully along lines but when you join another road or have a road crossing the curbing and median follows right through the other road.
Is there any way to have these joints/crossings show up as a normal road would? When you follow a corner the road behaves correctly and extends one edge and reduces the other edge, so could the curbing and medians be removed automatically at crossings and junctions? -
Whaat -
Is there a particular reason you don't offer Profile Builder 2 through the Sketchucation Plugin Store? I really object to having to create a Google account in order to purchase through the Extension Warehouse, but I'm keen on purchasing your plugin.
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