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[pixelcruncher]

Modlumi 0.10 is out: guides, Intersect Faces and solid booleans

Modlumi 0.10 is live at https://modlumi.com/app. Many of these changes started as requests and bug reports in this thread, most of them from @pilou. Thank you!

Guide lines and guide points

Measure (T) now places guides. Click an edge, then click again to place a parallel guide line, and type a distance to set the exact offset. Start on a corner or other point to place a guide point, or double-click an edge to place a guide along it. Guides can be selected, moved, copied, erased and hidden like other geometry, and the drawing tools snap to where a guide crosses an edge.

Intersect Faces

Edit › Intersect Faces (also in the right-click menu) has With Model, With Selection and With Context. Edges are added wherever faces cross, the faces are split, and only the new edges are selected.

Solids: check, volume and booleans

Select a group or component, and Properties tells you whether it is solid and shows its volume.

Combine Solids › Union, Subtract and Intersect combine two solid groups or components into a new group. Faces keep their materials, and the seams where the solids met are merged.

Drag and drop

Drag a .skp or .modl file onto Modlumi to open it, in the browser or on the desktop. If you have unsaved changes, Modlumi asks first. Models without a saved view open framed to fit, like Zoom Extents.

Fixes

• Extruding a plate whose holes are filled with their own faces keeps its base. Before, the slab was left open underneath.
• Rectangle, Circle and Polygon now draw on the face you snapped to at corners and edges, instead of jumping to a neighbouring wall.
• Drawing a closed outline around edges that cross a face, such as around a post standing through a floor, now cuts a hole.
• Copies placed over imported models keep all their faces.

Full release notes: https://modlumi.com/docs/release-notes/

As always, bug reports and ideas are welcome here or through the feedback button in the app.
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[Krass]

Great !

[Krass]

minor bug

[pilou]

Very cool big release! Bravo!
Seems to me there is always a big structural bug here?
Will be the same in 3D!
For me a new rectangle must have only 4 sides selectable! ?
That is the case when you create a new rectangle from nothing!

Here the bug ? Will be the same even i kill the 4 "double sides" front and behind ! So I keep the 2 lateral sides!
The 4 he middle sides are always living when i redraw them! (not show here but...

Normal way!

Some very ennoying for many modeling!

[pilou]

I am not sure that is the more frequent result wished

More true holes along the Push Pull.

For the moment we must do following because it's hard to select only numerous plain "facets" !

Select all the piece with numerous ones!
Invert selection
Hide (the inversed selection)
Select all the piece with numerous facetts
Double Click on the surface around pieces to kill numerous facetts
Inverse Selection
Kill plain faces
Push Pull

So a little request : "Inverse Selected & Hide" (not vital as we can make it by hand but...)
True holes at the end!

[pilou]

Request: Perpendicular Snap from Lines, Points Guides...
Also in 3D space!

[pilou]

[pilou]

[pixelcruncher]

Modlumi 0.11 is out: more solid tools, typed points and smoother rendering

Modlumi 0.11 is live at https://modlumi.com/app. Thanks to @Krass and @pilou for the bug reports in this thread. Both are fixed in this release.

More solid tools

Combine Solids now also has Trim, Split and Outer Shell:

• Trim cuts the second selected solid out of the first and keeps the second.
• Split separates two solids into what each holds alone and what they share.
• Outer Shell keeps only the outside of one or more solids.

Union and Intersect now take more than two solids at once. Cutting large solids is also much faster. A detailed part of almost 6,000 faces now takes about a second instead of half a minute.

Type points in the Line tool

While drawing a line, type [x, y, z] to go to an exact position on the drawing axes, or <dx, dy, dz> to move relative to the start point. A component left blank keeps the start point's value, so [, , 2] goes straight up to a height of 2.

Typed lengths that end right on an existing corner now land exactly on it, so a chain of typed lengths closes its face. The chain also keeps going when a segment touches existing edges, and only stops when you return to the first point.

Smoother rendering

Curved surfaces with smoothed edges, such as imported car bodies, now render smooth instead of showing their facets. Translucent materials painted on both sides of a face, like window glass, stay see-through when you look at them from the inside.

Fixes

• Erasing a line drawn across a face rejoins the sides it split, so a rectangle is back to four edges.
• Intersect Faces works on a loose box set on a slab, instead of failing with "overlapping interiors".
• Union no longer fails for two boxes standing on the same floor, shifted against each other.
• Extruding through a wall works where the far side is made of several faces, such as at a corner or where a partition meets the wall. A typed depth equal to the wall thickness now cuts cleanly through instead of leaving a thin skin.
• Partitions in a floor plan can be extruded after the outer walls have been raised.
• In a parallel-projection plan view, zooming in no longer hides the upper storeys.
• When an extrusion or cut can't be made, the reason now shows in red in the status bar.

Full release notes: https://modlumi.com/docs/release-notes/

As always, bug reports and ideas are welcome here or through the feedback button in the app.

[pilou]

What a reactivity!
But sorry this one is always a bug for me ! V 0.11

[pixelcruncher]

@pilou Yikes, I thought I fixed this. Will have another look at this one. I'm already cooking up v0.12, so this will be fixed in v0.13 or later. Desktop release is also coming soon.

Cheers,
Thomas

[pixelcruncher]

Fuck time to go to bed now

Modlumi 0.12 is out: standard views, better image export, Make Unique and dimensions

Modlumi 0.12 is live at https://modlumi.com/app. A quick follow-up to 0.11 with a few things that make it easier to work from drawings and present a model.

Standard views and parallel projection

View > Standard Views turns the camera to Iso, Top, Bottom, Front, Back, Left or Right, keeping your zoom. View > Perspective and Parallel Projection switch the projection, and the choice is saved with the model. Handy for tracing a floor plan or checking a façade against an elevation drawing.

Save to Image with a size you choose

File > Save to Image now opens a dialog with size presets and a locked aspect ratio, so the picture no longer depends on your window size. The export leaves out selection highlights, tool previews and the axes. You can include guides and use a transparent background.

Make Unique

Select one or more component instances and choose Make Unique from the Edit or context menu. They get their own copy of the definition, named like Chair#2, so you can change them without touching the other instances.

Dimensions in Properties

Properties now shows the width, depth and height of the selected group or component, measured along its own axes in your model's units. With several objects selected it shows the size of all of them together.

Also

Undo now keeps the last 500 steps (fewer when they are very large), so memory stays bounded in long sessions.

Full release notes: https://modlumi.com/docs/release-notes/

As always, bug reports and ideas are welcome here or through the feedback button in the app.

[pilou]

Request : a "guide Line" by 2 any Snap Points in 3D Space or by "2 Guide points" or "By a Snap Point & a Guide Point" !

A "Perpendicular Snap"

When you ask: Top View, Front etc... yes but with Zoom fit (Zoom extend) !

[pilou]

Very cool we can Group / Component the Guides lines! (Lines & Points)

but we can't add here for example a new created Point inside a Group or Component yet existing!
Like Select a Point drawn : Right Click Properties yes but no possibility to input in a Group / Component!

General : no possibility to explode a group / Component in the Outliner!

[pilou]

Seems we can't Delete guides lines saved & re loaded! (file linked)
And here the Triple Click don't select the 2 volumes! There are not Group or component !
Only a rectangle Lasso can all select! same file linked...

2pp.zip