[Plugin][$] Profile Builder 2

Whaat

Hi Whaat

My assemblies are getting complicated and I wonder if there is any way to automatically combine them?

This would make it much easier to get amazing results since they could be created in a modular fashion and debugged and re-used more easily.

If this cannot be done, can you think of any way to get a report on the assembly that would contain a listing of components and the dialog attributes such as elevation etc.?

Thanks again for all the fun.
Elliot

Sorry, I am not understanding what you mean by 'combine them'. can you elaborate?

eselick

Hi Whaat

By combining I mean adding two pre-existing assemblies together. These would be assemblies that had been created to be used together.

I just made a combination exterior siding and stud wall. I dumped the siding assembly into a model where the wall assembly was open. I then added profiles and components from the siding assembly in the model to the wall assembly. I used eye dropper tool which did save some time.

But I'm lazy and would have preferred to the use an eyedropper like tool with a "+" symbol that would have just "combined" the second assembly into the first with one click. This would have saved me some quite a bit of work and been guaranteed to be error-free.

Hope that explains it

Elliot

pilou

French Manual of Profil Builder 2!

TBoy

When I open library folder, only last row of profiles can be selected, no matter how long is the table of thumbnails-only last row. Anybody to tell me how to resolve this ?
Trial version installed on 64 bit Windows8.1, same on Windows 10-64 bit.

Whaat

@tboy said:

When I open library folder, only last row of profiles can be selected, no matter how long is the table of thumbnails-only last row. Anybody to tell me how to resolve this ?
Trial version installed on 64 bit Windows8.1, same on Windows 10-64 bit.

Hi,

That is a strange report. Can you please open the Ruby Console Window (Window->Ruby Console) and then try to select the profile thumbnails in the upper rows. Then, let me know if you see any error messages.

Also, could you please ZIP your library folder and send to me for testing? My email address can be found here (see Customer Support):
http://extensions.sketchup.com/en/content/profile-builder-2

Thanks!

optimaforever

Hello whaat,

Do you think there's a way to program PB to do something like this?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7vshlm06EE
It's book manager for 3dsmax; it work with selections of polys but in PB it could be replaced by smart paths.
Is there a way to random seed components inside an assembly?

TBoy

@tboy said:

When I open library folder, only last row of profiles can be selected, no matter how long is the table of thumbnails-only last row. Anybody to tell me how to resolve this ?
Trial version installed on 64 bit Windows8.1, same on Windows 10-64 bit.

Hellow whaat,
I found the reason - I was testing on some kind of portable version of SkethcUp.
In installed Sketchup everything is OK.
As a new user I'm testing a lot of plugins. ProfileBuilder2 is one of the best (possibly most useful). Professionally made, adding additional functionality to SketchUp. Congratulations for your work.

optimaforever

Hello Dale,

To create an assembly for this bench, is there a way to extrude a multi-profile for the wooden lattice (a profile composed of several discrete surfaces, not linked between them) or have I to add x multiples of the same square profile each moved and rotated accordingly to get the complete shape?

Thanks in advance,

optimaforever

Ok. done.
Yet I'd like to have an option to randomize UV tiling without having to group all the profiles, explode them and use Julia's UV depatternize script...

It took me a while to get the positioning of each profile right.
it has to be done manually.
I'd have liked to have the possibility to place the profiles along a predefined shape (spline) with the option of aligning the profile along the shape, and parametric interdistance.

It would be cool to have the possibility of interrupting the profiles (in the case of this bench, I'll have to cut the profiles with su4you's incredible slice to create some realistic lengths (there is no manufacturer who can make wooden profile in that shape and that length)

Whaat

@optimaforever said:

Ok. done.
Yet I'd like to have an option to randomize UV tiling without having to group all the profiles, explode them and use Julia's UV depatternize script...

It took me a while to get the positioning of each profile right.
it has to be done manually.
I'd have liked to have the possibility to place the profiles along a predefined shape (spline) with the option of aligning the profile along the shape, and parametric interdistance.

It would be cool to have the possibility of interrupting the profiles (in the case of this bench, I'll have to cut the profiles with su4you's incredible slice to create some realistic lengths (there is no manufacturer who can make wooden profile in that shape and that length)

Nice work! Thanks for the suggestions!

rv1974

Whaat, its rather tedious the dig into the context to edit the path. Could it 'feel' the path regardless the context?
Thanks
P.S. Are you planning some updates\new versions in the near future?

Bob James

Off Topic Nit Pick

@optimaforever said:

su4you's incredible slice

Isn't Slice made by TIG?

rv1974

there are different tools. beware of su4you's one- it's extremely addictive, simply genius.

optimaforever

@bob james said:

Off Topic Nit Pick

@optimaforever said:

su4you's incredible slice

Isn't Slice made by TIG?

TIG's "sliceR" I think.

Whaat

@rv1974 said:

P.S. Are you planning some updates\new versions in the near future?

Actually...yes. I am nearing the release of a significant update. Stay tuned

juju

@whaat said:

Actually...yes. I am nearing the release of a significant update. Stay tuned

Do tell!

rv1974

Multiple not connected edges as one path.
Move\scale\rotate randomization for assembly parts.
Easy path access.

I'd buy the upcoming version 3 times for those ones

Whaat

@juju said:

@whaat said:

Actually...yes. I am nearing the release of a significant update. Stay tuned

Do tell!

very soon...I'll probably be posting a promo video within the next few days.

optimaforever

One thing that frustrates me now:

When trying to save a profile or an assembly on the local drive (C:\userXXX\AppData\Roaming\SketchUp\SketchUp 2016\SketchUp\Plugins\DM_ProfileBuilder2\Libraries)
Windows 7 never allows me to write the file there unless I launch SU as an admin (which is pretty annoying as Win7 keeps me asking "are you sure?" non stop).

Now my workaround is to save the profile/aseembly to the desktop (which is surprisingly "writeable" through SU) and then remove the file to the right place with the help of Explorer.exe ...

Is there a hack to enable direct file-writing in the AppData section without having to be in Admin mode?

Another request:

Is it possible to get a LOD approach in the profiles?
By default in your Profiles Library, a circle is made of 24 edges.
If I use it for a complex assembly, I end up with a very highpoly mesh.

For Close-ups it would be a good thing.
For long-range, it will be a total overkill.

With a LOD option, I'd select a circle preset (instead of crawling through endless dimension-basenamed different circle presets like DIA5090 DIA5100 etc.), enter the diameter, enter the precision (number of edges) and the profile generated would be ideally suited to all types of cases.

Whaat

@optimaforever said:

One thing that frustrates me now:

When trying to save a profile or an assembly on the local drive (C:\userXXX\AppData\Roaming\SketchUp\SketchUp 2016\SketchUp\Plugins\DM_ProfileBuilder2\Libraries)
Windows 7 never allows me to write the file there unless I launch SU as an admin (which is pretty annoying as Win7 keeps me asking "are you sure?" non stop).

Now my workaround is to save the profile/aseembly to the desktop (which is surprisingly "writeable" through SU) and then remove the file to the right place with the help of Explorer.exe ...

Is there a hack to enable direct file-writing in the AppData section without having to be in Admin mode?

Another request:

Is it possible to get a LOD approach in the profiles?
By default in your Profiles Library, a circle is made of 24 edges.
If I use it for a complex assembly, I end up with a very highpoly mesh.

For Close-ups it would be a good thing.
For long-range, it will be a total overkill.

With a LOD option, I'd select a circle preset (instead of crawling through endless dimension-basenamed different circle presets like DIA5090 DIA5100 etc.), enter the diameter, enter the precision (number of edges) and the profile generated would be ideally suited to all types of cases.

The LOD feature would be cool. I'll consider that.

I have to advise you to please not save your profiles and assemblies in the appdata folder, especially in the DM_ProfileBuilder folder. Newer versions of PB2 will not even allow you to save here. If you install an updated version, you will likely lose all of your library files if they are saved here!