Hi,

I'd like any ideas you have for a problem we're looking to solve via SketchUp( as a research project). This would help us build the new UI for SketchUp focussing on gestural interaction.

• We want create a timestamped log all the SketchUp tool changing events into a .XML, CSV, or txt file during a modeling task given to a user.
  e.g. while drawing a Cylinder, all events like- 1. selecting a circle, 2. selecting Push/Pull etc. need to be logged to a text based file.

Please pingback any neat ideas you have for doing such a plugin.

Thanks a tonne!

Thanks Jim,

Web dialogues worked great! Thank you!

I need to write a small script for an research experiment we're doing using SketchUp

(www.anirudh.me)

• A small bar on the top right corner of Sketchup that shows a notification when an event has occurced . Example, ON SWITCHING tool TO CIRCLE, "it must show a text "CIRCLE SELECTED" there.
  On swithing to push/pull( "PUSH PULL ACTIVATED")

(Those who've used Growl Notifications http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/disable-growl-notifications-in-cyberduck-300x157.jpg will understand what i mean)

Please let me know how to go about it.

Thanks

jim,

its a part of my research. i am trying to understand other gestures that could help sketchup in future. thats why.

center could be 0,0 or arbitrary . I want to be able to draw using keyboard shortcuts. any ideas?

dave its a part of my research. i am trying to understand other gesture that could help sketchup in future. thats why. center could be 0,0 or arbitrary

Hi,

I am trying to do a project with sketchup in which i need to automate some drawing tasks.

• How do i add a shortcut for doing something customised? E.g. Ctrl+Shift+2 draws a circle of 20inches radius. Another Shortcut Ctrl+Shift+P should Pull it to make a cylinder.

-also if its been implemented through a plugin or script. please point me to the same.

Its something like recording macros within Sketchup, could someone kindly tell me a way to do it?

thanks

thanks for the reply!
could you please point me to a script like that which draws something using a Keyboard shortcut?

Hi,

I am trying to do a project with sketchup in which i need to automate some things.

• How do i add a shortcut for doing something customised? E.g. Ctrl+Shift+2 draws a circle of 20inches radius. Another Shortcut Ctrl+Shift+P should Pull it to make a cylinder.

Its something like recording macros within Sketchup, could someone kindly tell me a way to do it?

thanks

so do we get a way if we want to implement C++ TUIO client http://www.tuio.org/?software in a DLL loadable into SketchUp, any ideas ?

cheers
anirudh

Hi,
Can I have some resources for embedding external DLLs within Sketchup or letting it communicate to other scripts that send Win32 COM commands?

Cheers

no dude , i am not from IIT where are you from ?

I've added a little brief about my deliverables and mockups at http://nuigroup.com/forums/viewthread/4801/ .

Hi,

I am developing a plugin to receive MultiTouch Inputs using TUIO protocol that sends touch data on port 3000. How to go about making Sketchup listen to that. Later on I'd be adding some functionalies to input and execute-> zoom-in etc. commands using gestures.

cheers.

thanks community

@sepo , i'll be happy to help you in making one for yourself. The process is not very difficult , you just have to be ready to try your hand it a bit of caperentering , soldering stuff and modding cameras- believe me that is very easy. If making multitouch tables interest you, then i'll be more than happy to help you out in the same, PM me, i'll give you my chat id, skype .

@solo
we've tried our multitouch table with Zbrush with single touch. it worked amazingly well. However porting the same to multitouch ( so as to let it zoom-in, scale etc by gestures would be a ready cool idea. the Multitouch community on the internet is really looking forward to it.
My Multitouch system detects touchpoints in form of TUIO data that is transmitted via UDP on port 3000, a TUIO receiver plugin would be required for the zbrush, that's it. If you know how to write plugins for that, let's start

@burkhard

thanks for the tutorial link I'll start following it right away and keep the community abreast of my development.

this video shows a basic idea on how multitouch would look like while doing the CAD stuff, however i doubt that this video's really Multitouch since the guy's only using one touch input at time.. porting the same to MUltitouch is my aim
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7ENumwMohs
cheers !

anirudh

Hi all devs,
I am new to the Google Sketchup Community forums
Need a bit of help/advice. Since I am pretty new to sketchup's API, but have a certain experience with Ruby
, help/suggestions from your side will be
appreciated I've alredy done my Multitouch table with some AS3 software running on it from my nuigroup community, you can checkout a video at http://www.sparsh-i.com
I am planning to participate in Gsoc 2009 as a open source contributor . Planning to extend the wonderful Google Sketchup's capabilities to Multitouch.
My rough idea is to allow users having their own DIY Multitouch tables to be able to use Google Sketchup.
Having ability to draw/zoom-in by using gestures would be a plus on the UI and Userexperience side. I plan to do it by making a plugin for Sketchup that would receive touch inputs using TUIO protocol.

cheers!

anirudh