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?

You are a genius.

Just to explain why I wanted to know how to do this. I wanted to use your "RelazioneFacce" script for some work I do. I want to select all the inside surfaces of a room (modelled as a box with no top). The "RelazioneFacce" script gives the orientation I am looking for but only when I have all the back sides of walls facing into the box. I can do this manually by clicking on the faces and reversing them so the back side of faces point in. But I thought there might be something I could put into the script so that when I select all the faces and run the "RelazioneFacce" script the code would firstly check if the back sides were facing inwards and reverse any faces that arent.

This click2flip script will greatly speed up my process so thank you. Just wondering if it could be incorporated programatically as I have described?

Does anyone know how I could programmatically check what side of a face I have clicked on and if it is the back side of a face it gets reversed? So basically I click on a number of faces and for the ones that I have clicked on the back side of, they get flipped. Thanks

These scripts are very useful. However, I am wondering if it is possible to go further with this to help me with what I use sketchup for. I draw a 3d floor plan of a house which is basically just lots of boxes/rooms adjoining each other. For each room I need the area of each wall and its orientation. However the orientation is from the perspective of being inside that room. So say I am inside the room and I am looking at the wall in question, the orientation of the wall is basically the direction I am facing, for example North. If I was in the room adjoining and am now looking at the same wall but from the other side of it, the orientation is now the opposite direction ie south. These scripts dont quite cater for this and I am wondering if it is even possible to make such a script. So when i click on one side of a wall its orientation is one direction but if I click on the other side of it, its orientation is the opposite direction.

Hi there, I use sketchup on a daily basis in my work to sketch out buildings and get areas of walls and windows etc. Basically I draw out a floor plan in 3d with no ceilings. Then I have to click on every wall, internal and external and type its area and the direction it is facing (eg South East)into an excel spreadsheet. So it is quite time consuming. I'm just wondering if it would be possible to have some sort of program whereby, when I click on each wall I can hit a "hot key" or something and the area and direction the wall is facing will be pasted into the spreadsheet. Then I click on the next wall and hit the hot key and its area and direction are copied on the next line of the spreadsheet and so on.

I dont know anything about programming so I just thought I'd ask you guys if this is even possible. Like I dont even know if there is a method by which you could tell the direction a wall is facing just by clicking on it. Like maybe a reference to North could be set on each drawing or something.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.