Topics created by chippwalters

Wow Chipp, that is a crazy one! How peculiar. Glad you figured it out. Don't stay up too late working now ☀

Chris

These are some 'one-liners' that manipulate selections etc - Copy+Paste into the Ruby Console + <enter>
To select just Faces and Edges in the active context

m=Sketchup.active_model;s=m.selection;s.clear;m.active_entities.each{|e|s.add(e)if e.class==Sketchup;;Face or e.class==Sketchup;;Edge}

To select just all Faces in the active context

m=Sketchup.active_model;s=m.selection;s.clear;m.active_entities.each{|e|s.add(e)if e.class==Sketchup;;Face}

To select just all Edges in the active context

m=Sketchup.active_model;s=m.selection;s.clear;m.active_entities.each{|e|s.add(e)if e.class==Sketchup;;Edge}

To select just the Faces and Edges in the current selection

m=Sketchup.active_model;s=m.selection;s.each{|e|s.remove(e)if e.class!=Sketchup;;Face and e.class!=Sketchup;;Edge}

To select just the Edges in the current selection

m=Sketchup.active_model;s=m.selection;s.each{|e|s.remove(e)if e.class!=Sketchup;;Edge}

To select just the Faces in the current selection

m=Sketchup.active_model;s=m.selection;s.each{|e|s.remove(e)if e.class!=Sketchup;;Face}

You can expand this idea to quickly select/deselect all manner of things 🤓

Very cool.

@martin-art said:

I just wanted to post an update on the licensing situation in Shaderlight.

For Shaderlight 1.2 we incorporated a new licensing system which has made the installation process much more straight forward for our community. However, we discovered that a limitation of this new system was that we were unable to allow multiple activations on a license code or have the ability to transfer the license to another machine. We have been working to resolve this and importantly maintain the straight forward licensing.

Our development team concentrated on allowing multiple activations on a single code, new commercial Shaderlight activation codes can be used twice so you will be ok to activate your Shaderlight license on your office and home computer. The licensing of Shaderlight allows you to have Shaderlight installed on 2 machines, but only use 1 at a time.

Customers that have an existing Shaderlight license will need to contact support@artvps.com and their license code will be modified.

Martin

That sounds great Martin. Thanks very much! 😍

Thank you very much for the helpful videos about your workflow!
Cotty

I've always wanted SU to have a native select untextured faces. I'm surprised it has never been added.

or you can get it from the source (me.)

A very marginally quicker modification of Boo's method is to just use a selection window around the face (including the outer edge) and then de-select the outer edge by double shift clicking one of the outer connected faces.

right click on a face to display the context menu
2) dismiss that (click outside)* Windows | Preferences | Shortcuts filter: reverse

Choose Edit...Reverse Face

*Don't do step 2. In order for context menu items to show in the Shortcuts list, it would have to show in the context menu if you right click and if a face isn't selected, it won't show in the context menu.

I'm afraid there's no way you can turn inference off. You can set (turn off) length and degree snapping in the preferences but that won't turn off inference to axes and geometry in general.

Thanks a bunch! Didn't know about the Create face tool. Much appreciated!
🎉 🎉 🎉

@jean lemire said:

Hi Chippwalters, hi folks.

I posted the following in another SU forum to help someone understand the Rotate Tool so all of this dont necessarily apply to your case:

.........

I know .. i know we are 10 years later, and still your post was perfect to solve my problem, kudos to you .. 😄

@unknownuser said:

It appears the limit of the width pics on this site is 800, but for some reason it doesn't show the full 800 pixels

yes, that's true. 800 pixels would stretch the div the post is in and the stylesheet of this forum software rather crops the image. About 706 pixel wide images can be displayed properly.
We only do not change the limit to 706 for the time being because that was the limit on the old board, too, and during the transfer it would be a PITA to keep resizing all the images in order to be able to post them here. After the transfer we'll set the limit properly.

Back to the topic; really cool renders and technique with the added SU lines!

You have to remember though that a dryer vent like that is made up of a spiral not a series of circular wires. At least the one attached to my dryer is. Ive never seen one that is made up of single circles of wire embedded into the covering material.

On a side note that looks REALLY good.

@unknownuser said:

If you want your splitting plane to be parallel the any standard plane (red-green or red blue or green-blue), you may rotate the circle (before extrusion) or cylinder (after extrusion).

Use 7.5° if the circle has 24 segments.

The formula is 180 ÷ number of segments.

Exactly...and that is what my skippy (and formula) are about. The whole idea is using the formula:

number of sides of circle = any odd number * 2

is so that one doesn't need to rotate the circle after creating it. See the skippy example and you'll see.

best regards,
Chipp

Got it. Thanks!

Dear Richard,

Many thanks for the tutorial.

Regards,
Bob

chippwalters,

Yes, I forget to mention that possibility.
I don’t even know if there is any such ruby but it should not be that hard to reproduce a scene since that data is saved with the model. The only thing is you have to know where to ‘look’ to fetch it.
I enjoyed doing this.

success,
Wo3Dan

Gaieus and Ross,

Thanks a bunch for your replies. Much appreciated! 😄