Lol, Thanks a lot
Alain

No, No, No, No, keep this module on the forum!

Sure that's a pity it's no more maintained as expected.
But it seems that things could change so wait and see.

I also complained to not find all needed informations and I spent many hours trying to understand the trick but it's not impossible.

As example about joints, movements, keybord and xbox paddle control, you can have a look at a mobile crane I realised few years ago.

Lynx 100Ton mobile Crane

Please notice that I only sketchyphisified this mobile crane made by Smike

So I had to reorganise all groups to create sketchyphysified entities.

Actually, I think that the most important things to do in Sketchy is to understand and fix the crash everytime we leave Sketchup AND, trying to improve performance because that sure Sketchy needs a powerfull computer to work.

I hope it will help you to understand some things not always obvious in Sketchy.

Alain

Hello Howaito,

Are you sure that you don't get a STEP file in your directory because if you export a very simple part, the process can be very fast and you should see nothing in the status bar.

Hi Rainer,

Thanks for your answer.
First, the fact that the faces are facetted is really not a problem.

The problem I talked about, and I illustrate again by the next example, is not a problem of interpretation of existing geometry but creation of new geometry.
Or maybe, I don't know if it's possible, that your plugin may find in the skp file, a trace of an erased geometry.
It's more visible on the image below.

It's problem a bit annoying whereas your plugin is very close to be perfect.

Solid tools don't solve these kind of problem.

Regards,
Alain

Incredible!!!!

According to all I read on the web, exporting skp to IGES was allmost impossible by just clicking a button!

Anyway, I tried it.

My first surprise was not so good as your plugin told that my model contains non solid entities which couldn't be exported. Well, as my model doesn't contain any solid at all, I expected getting a blank file!

But your plugin continued and ask me for a file name !?! Why? As it didn't find anything to convert??

Ok, let's go and...., and...., and........,

Surprise, my model is perfectly converted !!!????!!!! 15Mb instead of 1.3 Mb in skp!
Well quite perfectly as it just generated one more edge, in the espace, not connected to the model.

Hello,
Is there a way or a plugin to map an extruded text on a complex surface.
I mean I don't want to map a texture but to map a 3D text as shown below.

Regards,
Alain

Hi Scott,
Some of us, and me, experienced such kind of problems but it was due to a "small" scale which causes the plugin to not be able to correctly compute the extruded faces.
We don't know how big your model is and its size and its edges size but your experience is interesting and could give us something else to think about in case of problems.
Thx,
Alain

Would it be possible to map a earth texture on a sphere.
I tried it with UVmapping wihtout success but I'm not sure I correctly used it.

Arghh, bad luck I though it would be possible to bend its knee!

bend knee.skp

I've installed ColorEdge which is quite cool despite some little problems I think and I'm going to look at plugins for faces mapping only.
Thanks everybody.