@alexmozg said:
The menu buffer overflows anyway if the number of objects UI::Command becomes more then 500-600!
And unfortunately, the predefined context menu commands
(such as Explode, Hide, Erace etc.)
are not amenable to correction,
but the commands of other plugins should always work.
craigbic
In your case, you can only limit the number of plugins which you use.
Limit plugins? NEVER! Not a big deal - just an annoyance really. Thank you for the explanation and the plugin! Good work! 
thomthom, I am still having the problem after updating Fredo's plugins. I do have quite a large collection of plugins that I use so I have learned to live with the context menu gray-out by going to the selection menu under Edit (not sure what this menu is actually called - Edit context menu? - so see 1st screen shot).
Can go here instead of right-click context menu if it is grayed out
Alex, your plugin is installed properly and is running
Alex, I installed your plugin, it is running (see second screen shot) but I am still having the context menu gray-out issue, at least in part (see third screen shot). Most of the options I use such as "Explode" are grayed out.
Right-click context menu is still grayed out to some degree
I'll keep using the Edit menu for now. Just thought you might appreciate the feedback. Thank you for all the hard work! I hope this annoying problem goes away along with toolbar migration. 
YES...YES.....YES!!!!! Everyhing is working now! Thank you especially for the update for use with construction points. I tried every variant I could think of, lsystem point clouds, sandbox mesh grids, convex geometry groups....it all worked.....flawlessly! It took awhile but as I told other members in other related posts.....somebody in this terrific community forum will come in and save the day!
Thank you avariant!!!
Well, there are a few snags but I am still VERY pleased with this large chunk of progress. Kudus, avariant! This is a major step forward in the Qhull/Voronoi plugin development.
Has ANYBODY been able to get the "selection" versions of Voronoi, convex, Delaunay, or half working at all? I have been unable to do so under any circumstance regardless of point cloud size or attitude in SU6. I use SU6 at work and SU7 at home so I haven't tried it in SU7 yet. I generated lsystem point clouds of various sizes and was totally unable to get them to work. Then I tried various hand-made point clouds, ones generated from sandbox meshes, and even point clouds generated from 2D Voronoi diagrams and all did not work (see error message pic).
On the positive side, all of the operations based on points generated by rbox work just fine and it is really nice to have them working within SU! I guess for now, to generate 3D Voronoi geometry from my own points, I'll have to follow my own procedure as outlined in this post
I feel like we're almost there and it will only take a slight nudge to get this totally working.....I am still quite excited about this.
YES!!!! I have been really.....really....REALLY needing this lately! I can't wait to try this as soon as I am done writing this reply. I'll let you know how it goes.
@unknownuser said:
Can someone enlighten me, please? What it the purpose of having such a random geometry?
Tomasz,
I wouldn't call it "random geometry" as the "randomness" would depend on the point cloud used as the basis for the Voronoi diagram but rather call it "mathematically generated geometry". 3D Voronoi structures (2D Voronoi diagrams aside) are used in cellular-level research, bone fatigue studies, and experimental cellular architecture.
@harnstein said:
thanks for the good reply!
my internet-service has been down for ONE WEEK- imagine that!!! still rrrrrr...!
just getting bits of my connection, i have to wait again till monday- i try to use your guide then and join this thread again!
greetings, harnstein
..and a nice weekend
Hey, no problem. Glad I had something offer. I hope you can at least get to the point I have been able to but I'm REALLY hoping someone will come along and integrate the qhull.exe and voronoi.exe programs better in SU and make the whole process self-contained. We'll see.
Let me know how things go.
I managed to figure out a way of generating 3D voronoi objects from SU geometry but it is FAR from automatic and doesn't involve SU as much as you would think/like. First you will need to download and install Python. Second download an unzip somewhere this collection of Python scripts specifically for creating 3D meshes from voronoi diagrams - voronoi3d.zip (The following has worked for me in SU6:
1)First create a cloud of points - you can either use the Qhull program rbox.exe (i.e. command prompt & type "rbox.exe 1000" for a cloud of a 1000 points) or you can use the Plugins>Qhull>Pointify and then Export C-Points to generate a point cloud from your selected SU geometry.
2)Next use a text editor like Notepad to edit the points.txt file. The first line will be something like "3 129" The first number is always 3 (I believe this is how many dimensions the file has 2 for 2d, 3 for 3d but don't quote me) and the second number is the amount of points in the cloud.
3)Change this line to "3 rbox 129" (i.e. insert "rbox" in between these two numbers.)
4)Hit the enter button to create a new line below this one and then type the number of points again (i.e. 129).
5)Save the file.
6)Next open a command prompt to the SU>Plugins>Qhull directory and type or paste the following completely including the word "type" - "type points.txt|qvoronoi p Fv >out.txt", which will generate a voronoi diagram to a file called "out.txt".
7)Next copy both the points.txt and out.txt files to the directory where you unzipped the voronoi3d.zip file containing the handy Python scripts.
8)Double-click on the manifold3d.py Python script (from voronoi3d.zip), which will open a command window.
9)Wait for this to complete ( this can take a minute or two) and you should have a Wavefront obj file called obj.obj.
10)Use MeshLab to convert to 3ds or use the obj import plugin for SU from Jim Foltz to bring the 3D voronoi mesh into SU.
So that was what I had to do to generate a 3D Voronoi model from a point cloud in SU. Whewwww! 
I have attached a couple of pics showing the results from generating a random point cloud from rbox.exe (the one with the greenish/greyish Google Earth-like background) and the other pic showing a 3D Voronoi model generated from a point cloud made from the Pointify plugin run on lines generated from running the lsystem plugin on a straight line (i.e. create a tree, select tree, click Plugins>Qhull>Pointify). Both 3D Voronoi meshes were given a quick treatment with transparent faces and Didier's lines2Tubes plugin just to make them interesting.
Perhaps based on this - maybe a Ruby-Master could create new or modify the existing scripts to work properly.
@harnstein said:
how did you get to the information, that you can write "qhull.exe TI points.txt v Qbb o TO qvoronoi.txt" ?
I got that from the qhull.exe documentation from qhull.org. If you open up a command window to the qhull directory in the plugins folder of SU and type "qhull" it will bring up a list of all the little options you can add such as "Qbb" etc... Qhull is working and that's nice but what I really wanted was voronoi to work. I really hope someone takes up the mantle and get this working. I tried for hours, modifying the script and couldn't get it to function (not that I know much about Ruby mind you).
Perhaps what we'll need to do is to export the c-points and then run voronoi.exe to qvoronoi.txt and then run THATfile through MatLab or Mathematica to spit out a model.
Awesome plugin! Very intuitive interface. I can't wait for the conceptual version. Keep up the good work! 
I can get Convex Hull to work using this procedure:
However, even when I create the required qvoronoi.txt file from exported points (have tried with and without bounding box included) via the command prompt command "qhull.exe TI points.txt v Qbb o TO qvoronoi.txt" and I go back into SU and run Plugins>Qhull>Voronoi - nothing happens except a quick flash of the command prompt window. This is really frustrating 
since I really have a need to create voronoi-based architecture for a project and i don't want to have to go to Rhino.
Has ANYONE had any luck with this at all?
