Hi Rich,

Yes IES is actually the plugin I was talking about. I like the way their plugin can detect rooms. I would like my plugin to detect rooms in a similar way but apart from that, the rest of the plugin I require would be quite specific to my needs and the IES one doesn't do what I want.

Well my models are quite simple and only have windows and doors on the exterior walls. They did not seem to effect the room selection. The other plugin I had used specified that if there were openings between rooms you should draw the opening as a surface but paint it with a fully transparent material i.e with opacity of 0. I assume this let their algorithm detect the room as a fully closed volume.

I had someone develop a basic plugin for me previously. It allowed me to define rooms by selecting the floor of a room and making it a group. The rooms were then named using the outliner window in Sketchup. This seemed to allow the developer to work with rooms from there. It was very basic and ultimately wasn't sophisticated enough for what I required.

I would define a room as a closed volume. So on the most basic level a cube shaped room would need 6 surfaces to enclose it. I have used a plugin previously that automatically detected all the rooms in the building. So it can obviously done but I don't know how difficult it would be programming wise.

Hello again.

Just to let you guys know, I have posted a forum topic called "I wish to hire a developer" with a very brief description of my plugin. If any of you are interested, I can send you a more detailed description.

Hi,

I am looking to have a sketch up plugin developed to help me in my work and was wondering if anyone here would be interested.

The plugin essentially needs to output (to a spreadsheet) a number of parameters for every room in a simplified model of a building. The parameters it needs to output are the area, material and direction of all elements in each room. By elements, I mean walls, windows, doors, floors, ceilings and roofs. As well as this, it should output the name of the room adjacent to each element. So for example if the element is a wall, it should output the name of the room on the other side of the wall.

I hope to build a larger overall application at a later date but this functionality would be the minimum requirement if I wanted to build anything else on top of it.

If anyone is interested in this project, I have put together a more detailed description of what i require and I could send it on to you.

Thank you all for your feedback. I am just finalising a description of what I am looking for. I will then post it in the developers forum and see how it goes.

Hi,

Just wondering if people could suggest a good place to find Sketchup plugin developers. I wish to have a plugin developed. I have looked in places like Odesk but there seems to just be lots of general developers who say they will "give it a go". I would rather find someone who specialises in or at least has experience in building a Sketchup plugin.

Are there companies or websites that specialise in Sketchup plugin development? Obviously there are a number of Sketchup developers in these forums but is there an appropriate way of hiring. Do I just post my project as a topic and ask for help?

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Brian

I was just wondering if there was some way of naming the faces. I was hoping to be able to assign the room name to the horizontal face ie the floor of the room. So when i copy the parameters returned by relazionefacce to a spreadsheet I would know what room the results refer to.

Ok thanks. Just a quick question is relation to the script "relazionefacce" which I use with click2flip. For the parameters it returns i.e FACCIA, ORIENAMENTO,AREA and MATERIALE. Where does the Faccia parameter come from and is this something that can be set for each face?

Thanks again. When I select the 4 inside surfaces of a box, the script correctly flips all but one of the walls. Do you know what might be causing this? Is it anything to do with my viewpoint when I run the script?