A modular piece of a twisted column

@sdmitch said:

I don't know but, if you would like to post a SU2014 sample of what you are referring to, I will test it.

Ok, thank you so much! I've uploaded a sample here:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/naim6y7o6ys57iv/quad-mesh.skp?dl=0

Looks like this:

@sdmitch said:

Something like this?

That looks really nice! Does it work distributing non-coplanar vertices/edges?

@rich o brien said:

No, but I did ask Thomthom to add this to SUbD because some type of relax is needed.

First of all I have to say I can't write a single line of code, but I think it could fit better including this feature in Vertex Tools. You should be able to select a single loop and distribute the distances between its vertices, makes sense?

Well, that's the question: Is it possible to distribute the vertices from a quad mesh uniformly? I mean if is there a way to avoid doing it manually or starting again from zero. Is there any extension to convert the right mesh into the left mesh?

@pilou said:

How many time the subdivision itself ? Negligible or...

There's two subdivisions and it took about 2 mins to complete the process.

@optimaforever said:

did you model one groove, component it and copy it in revolving fashion, then explode them before subdividing??

You nailed it. That's exactly what I did

Well, here comes mine:

and after a little bit of Thea and Photoshop, this is the result:

Looks really great, thank you!

Hi there,

I just want to ask if you know any podcast about CG's or archviz
I know MasterSketchup recorded a few ones and Chaos Group also has its own podcast, but anyone else?

Greetings!

@xrowdac said:

hello guys,. I have installed this plug-in on ver.8 SKetchup all seems working the only problem i encountered is that the Z-depth has no depth literally its a same image as the alpha..

Hi there,
you only have to change a little the default values for distance in the fog floating window ( window > fog ) and it's done

Hi there!

First of all, thanks for your great work. The thing is, will Su[Ch] come to SketchUp 2014? I usually use 2014, but I have yet installed SketchUp 2013 just for this plugin

Greetings and regards.

@aerilius said:

The toolbars are stored in the registry
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\SketchUp\SketchUp 2014\Plugins_ae\ToolbarEditor.
You can copy and paste it in the same key on another SketchUp installation or version. You can also use the File → Export functionality of the registry. I'm not sure whether I should add an export button to each of my plugins, I hope SketchUp will provide an efficient and central place to migrate settings.

Thank you for your response! Greetings!

Thank you so much Aerilius!

It could be nice to export custom toolbars to a *.dat file to get the same toolbars in other computers. Is there any way to do anything like that?

Greetings!