Modlumi - Easy 3D modelling

[pilou]

It has same function than the last 0.20 windows ? I can't test, i am not a mac fellow!

[pixelcruncher]

@pilou yes, it has the same features.

[ntxdave]

@pixelcruncher I am having a problem trying to create an array. I want to copy/move an object and add multiple copies. I thought there was something in this thread before about how to do this but I cannot find il Can someone help me.

[ntxdave]

I am trying to create an array of objects. I thought there was a post in this thread about how to do this but I cannot find it; Can someone give me the instructions about how to do it.

[ntxdave]

ntxdave said:

I am trying to create an array of objects. I thought there was a post in this thread about how to do this but I cannot find it; Can someone give me the instructions about how to do it.

OK, I looked at the documentation and figured it out.

[pilou]

Maybe it's me but seems there is a bug here ?
We need a perpendicular snap 3D ! (for pick the external oposite side!

[ntxdave]

I did some testing of applying material images and am reporting some issues I had. However, it would be interesting if there was a way the sender could have a copy of the report. I think the report process is very interesting and that more products should have some type of a feature like it. I just would like to be able to see it/have a copy of it somewhere. Thanks for having this feature in your software.

[pixelcruncher]

@ntxdave I'll see what I can do. Don't forget to leave your email address on the report - There's a bunch I suspect came from you, but I can't really reply on them because there's no sender address.

Cheers,
Thomas

[ntxdave]

@pixelcruncher said:

@ntxdave I'll see what I can do. Don't forget to leave your email address on the report - There's a bunch I suspect came from you, but I can't really reply on them because there's no sender address.

Cheers,
Thomas

I did not see a place on the report to enter my email address. I will go try again just to see it.

Yes, I have submitted several posts.

OK, I just did a really silly test screen and included my email address. Sorry I did not see that before.

[pilou]

As you can see there is no precise first click Snap 3D of the Gizmo for any reason!
I make Shift for Block the Plane then Ctrl for Copy...
Same trapeze volume than above!

[ntxdave]

Cana someone give me some instructions about how to do the following things in Modlumi:

• Change the name of a color. I was able to change the name of a material image, but I have used several colors in a model but cannot edit the name of the color. It always set the name of the color Paint and will not allow me to set the name I want to use.

• Set the size of a text object (not the 3D text, just a plain old text object).

[pilou]

for the moment seems a text object not 3D is a Label!

[ntxdave]

@pilou said:

for the moment seems a text object not 3D is a Label!

Yes, I understand that I just want to have some control of the “Label”. IMO, it is kind of useless as is.

[majid]

Any chance of adding "curevd" guides? Nubrs curves? As a guide for the follow-me or copy-along path tool etc....

[pixelcruncher]

@majid said:

Any chance of adding "curevd" guides? Nubrs curves? As a guide for the follow-me or copy-along path tool etc....

Iwill add it to the list! I've been in Rayscaper mode the last couple of days but will continue with modlumi after the weekend.

[pilou]

@pixelcruncher
Don't know and don't find how to send you an email or a private message here!
This STL don't works in ModLumi !
So here the file! https://moiscript.weebly.com/uploads/3/9/3/8/3938813/fauteuil.zip
I success inside the new cool free Layerling https://layerling.com/
but not in the Desktop version of ModLumi !
Have happy coding!
Pilou!

This STL was created from the free Krea 3D https://www.krea.ai/3d

it was very small but...

[majid]

@pixelcruncher Great. Just saw what is new in the latest sketchup release; a similar tool is there: Procedural Follow Me, procedural copy along path...etc Your card might be "NURBS guides added to traditional SU tools...

[chon]

Hello all,
Working on several sites on several PC, if possible, it would be nice to have a portable version for Windows of Modlumi on USB for tests.

Many thanks

[pixelcruncher]

@chon The installed modlumi.exe is a single file. I haven't tried it yet, but I think you can copy it to a USB disk, and it will just work.

Cheers,
Thomas

[pixelcruncher]

Modlumi 0.21 is out

Download it for Windows from https://modlumi.com/download/latest/windows, or open the browser version at https://modlumi.com/app/. If you already run 0.20 on Windows, it will offer you the update. The Mac build of 0.21 will follow later.

New features

• Import STL, OBJ, PLY, 3DS, glTF, FBX and COLLADA models. Choose File → Import... or drop a file on the window. STL, OBJ, PLY and 3DS files don't say which units they use, so Modlumi asks first. The model arrives as one component with a group for each object in the file, and materials keep their names and colors. Large meshes import quickly: @pilou's armchair of over a million triangles takes seconds now. Thanks for the file! https://modlumi.com/docs/user-guide/files/#other-3d-formats

• Reorder scenes, glide between them and play them in turn. Drag a scene up or down the Scenes panel to move it. Clicking a scene glides the camera to it, and Play (also View → Play Scenes) glides through every scene until you stop it. Thanks @pilou and @ntxdave for asking! https://modlumi.com/docs/user-guide/navigating/#scenes

Improvements

• Perpendicular snap. Once you've clicked a first point, hover an edge or guide line to find Perpendicular, the magenta dot where a line from your first point meets it at a right angle. It works in 3D too. Thanks @pilou! https://modlumi.com/docs/user-guide/drawing/#snapping-and-axis-locks

• Right-click a row in the Outliner for the same menu as in the viewport, with Erase, Hide, Explode, Make Component and the rest. Thanks @pilou for the idea!

• Combine Solids tells you why a selection isn't a solid. The commands are now disabled for a group or component that isn't a solid, and their tooltip says why. Here's @pilou's sphere and pyramid: the sphere's group only wraps another group, so it needs exploding first.

• Models with many nested component copies stay responsive. Copies of a component now share their geometry for snapping and selection. @pilou's four levels of ten rotated copies used to freeze Modlumi for minutes; now the view updates in a few seconds and drawing over them stays smooth.

• Rename materials in the Materials panel. Select a material, type a new name in its Name field and press Enter. Thanks to whoever asked through the feedback form!

• The feedback form asks for your email first and remembers it, so we can actually answer your reports. Thanks @ntxdave for pointing out it was easy to miss!

• For script and plugin writers: addEdges and addCurve no longer make faces when they close a loop, as in SketchUp's Ruby API. Use addFace, or the new entities.findFaces on one of the edges. entities.addInstance places another copy of a component, and JSON.stringify now prints points, vectors, entities and selections. https://modlumi.com/docs/guides/geometry/#drawing-edges

Fixes

• A plugin that needs a newer Modlumi now says so and tells you where to update, instead of listing internal feature names and stopping mid-sentence. Thanks @Krass!

• Edges draw in the edge color inside painted groups and components. Edges inside a group painted with an image showed as white lines. Thanks to the user who reported it from the app!
• Edges just behind curved surfaces no longer show through on Windows. @Krass, this should help with the edge artifacts you saw on the desktop app; let me know if you still see them.

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

Thanks for all the reports. Keep them coming!

Cheers,
Thomas