Hello TIG,

Thought this plugin would serve for 2D exports but it's actually not. I might be wrong but I don't believe there is a plugin that hides the rest of the model from the 2D export. For instance, sometimes, I'd like to just make a 2D export of a furniture inside a whole project in order to show how it looks on its own. Even though the "Hide rest of the model" function is enabled, it's ignored in the export file (png or jpeg). No matter how much of the model was visible in the viewport, the whole model will be seen in any cases. The only workaround for me right now is just to select all, unselect the only element that I want to make visible and delete rest of the model, do the export, and undo the objects removal. But it can get tricky when there are groups of groups and you need to manage inside them which you want to keep or not...
Do you think you could create a feature that would somehow allow this ?

Thank you

That's what I thought but I just wanted to be sure I wasn't missing anything ! Thanks !

Thanks for this help, that makes sense now. I knew there was something missing in the parents/children hierarchy but didn't know what. I may bother you with another question if you don't mind.

Can the plugin keep the starting point (considered to be 0 and with a defined value as maximum sliding lenght) of a slider joint applied to 3 sliding doors at the same level? Let's say I would launch the simulation and move them at different lenghts. In the end, I would stop the simulation and keep them at these various positions. But when launching the simulation again, it would consider the initial starting point as a limit for the three of them, no matter how far from it they are.

I don't know if i'm very clear, that's quite hard to explain but I can provide pictures if that does not make sense.

To simplify my question : Once simulation is stopped with objects moved, is it obliged that the reference point of the slider joint is changed according to each new position of the objects ?

I swear, that's my last one

Hello Anton !

Many thanks to you for both clothworks and MS Physics plugins, these are really nice to use and user friendly. MS physics can sometimes be a little tricky when it's about animating a model with a lot of groups but I guess there's always a way to make things work.

In a project I'm drawing for a client, I'm designing a sliding/folding door which is made of hinge between the panels. I found pretty easily how to achieve the folding action with rotation limits and for the moment it's possible to slide it but I had to reduce the slider joint stiffness in order to be able to fold panels completely (don't know why it's not possible when stiffness is set to one).
But my biggest concern is to be able to keep the sliding action on one panel (the others linked by hinges are following) without applying a straight constraint on the whole panel. I'd like only the hinge part of this panel to follow a straight way (a railing)

In the end, it should rotate freely and slide at the same time... If my problem isn't clear, I can always copy paste the concerned model in a new file if that's easier to understand.

https://www.reynaers-particulier.fr/_img/_pages/porte-pliante-aluminium/3.jpg

Thanks for your help,

At least I tried ! And what about the gaps ? Can I avoid them to happen on the planks smallest sides ? Like continuous planks from floor to roof ? Or does it have to be necessarily linked to the longest sides gaps value ?

Hi Sam !

Thanks for the wonderful plugin first of all, that's really helpful ! I have two questions concerning the wood pattern, would it be possible to make continuous wood planks without any cuts ? I tried to increase the lenght value so it's higher than the maximum height of my volume to cover with planks but I'm still getting cuts.

I'm actually working on a house project extension. The original house has single lenghts planks going from floor to roof with three differents width of 7, 13 and 20 cm. Yet, your plugin seems to be the most appropriate to complete this task regarding the fact that I need the same spacing between the planks. But i'm looking for a way to lay planks of these precise widths, randomly against my volume. Your plugin is creating random width which provides me with a close result but not what I meant to do. I hope I'm being clear in my explanation...

I guess there must be a way to achieve that with maybe several plugins, but couldn't find the way. I also tried creating these 3 different planks as components and spray them along line with compospray, but this one doesn't allow me to control the spacing and doesn't adjust the planks top to my shape as your plugin does... Each plugin shows limits for this task and I'm afraid my request is a bit too difficult to solve... But still I'm asking in case of I can avoid making planks one by one

Hope you can help Thanks !

Well I converted to quads using quad tools then I shaped the thing using vertex tools while it was smoothed edges and when switching to sharp edges, it removes the stuff I did with Vertex tools. As I remember, I didn't do any changes in the mesh but I'll work more with SubD, maybe I'm just not doing things in the proper order. And maybe my computer is actually not so good, don't know...

Thanks for helping at least.

@optimaforever said:

Look at the subdivided mesh and you'll realize it's not quad at all.
It's a triangle based mesh.
So of course it will not work. You have the same problem as I had earlier.
Convert to quad before launching Subd.

Well, the difference between quads and triangles is quite unclear to me. Basically, a quad divided in two becomes two triangles, no ?

Anyway, I just drawn a square in wireframe, converted to quad and subdivided directly from subD, the plugin still getting stuck when switching from sharp to smooth corners. Not getting where the problem comes from... I'll end up thinking that's my computer

EnregistrementAuto_Sans titre.skp

Well I noticed this option smooth or sharp boundary corners but whenever I subdivide a group, even a very simple one (just a rectangle surface subdivided with artisan before), the result I get when pressing the first subdivision iteration is a mesh with round corners even though SubD is set at sharp option. So I try to switch it to smooth instead and then it goes in an endless loading and stucks in the the process until I get a windows saying that a script slows down my web navigator ??? What's the link to the navigator ??

Here is a screen of the geometry I made (basic one), as you can see the option is set to "sharp" but corners are subdivided and it gets stuck like if I change any of the options from the info windows.

There you go ! Just downloaded Fixit 101, it removed a lot of geometry and it's running smoother. Also, I had this geometry in a file with a lot of polygons so I isolated it in a new file and it's processing faster. Dumbly, I thought It would be the same processing speed but I guess SubD is actually processing the whole sketchUp file to display the crease tool stickers so it's asking a lot of ressources. Anyway, Maybe the file will help to understand my request : being able to crease the whole different meshes inside the group at once.
The problem is the geomtry is so badly done that some of them got subdivided with sharp corners and other got smoothed at corners resulting in a fail when trying to crease them sharp all at once. So the thing would be to crease manually each one desired.
That's why I'm asking if there would be a way to disable from the beginning the edges smoothing.

Thanks for helping !

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