@unknownuser said:

Must be in your 60's?

First computer class I ever took (1968). Took longer punching the cards and standing in line to submit them and to get the printout two days later than to figure how to write the 30 or-so line do-loop
.

Close - I'm 52. I had similar experiences with card punching before I dropped the class. Plus, my professor said that computer programmers would never make any money.

@unknownuser said:

Have not tried Road King yet but will the road follow a preset path using standard highway slopes/grades and such or is it just a contour follower?

Sorry, it doesn't do anything that fancy. I intended it as more of a schematic design tool. The script takes road center points, finds the corresponding terrain elevations and attempts to make a road with level cross slopes at those elevations. That's really all it does.

Chuck

Hi everybody!

"Instant" has kind of been a joke around my house recently too. With me as the butt. I've actually been working on the instantCash program since Fortran days, but I could only ever get it to decrement - never increment.

Here's a link to a pdf where I attempt to show what most of the roof, eave, fascia, rafter and hip parameters do: http://www.valiarchitects.com/sites/default/files/tutorials/pdf/Roof-parameters.pdf

Thanks for all the comments.

Chuck

Hello all,

I'm very happy that people here have taken the time to try out my scripts. Thanks for the kind words! Yes, I suppose it's not that clear on my website what the difference between the free and pro versions are. (My wife was right again). So here it is:

Instant Roof free version limitation:
The free version will only create the following roof slopes: 1/8:12 (0.6 degrees) ; 2:12 (9.5 degrees) ; 6:12 (26.6 degrees) ; 16:12 (53 degrees) or 24:12 (63 degrees).
The pro version does not have this limitation and will create roof slopes between 1/8:12 (0.6 degrees) and 24:12 (63 degrees)

Instant Road free version limitations:
Shoulder width is limited to 36 inches (91 cm) maximum
The 'Make Road from Center Line Edge(s)' method limits road widths to the range: 6 feet - 10 feet (182 cm - 304 cm)
Curb width is limited to 6 inches (15 cm) - (no sidewalks in the free version)
The pro version does not have any of these limitations.

Instant Site Grader free version limitation:
Shoulder width is limited to 36 inches (91 cm) maximum
The pro version is not limited.

BTW, I want to extend special thanks to Chris Fullmer. I started writing these plugins after watching his SketchUp ruby scripting tutorials.

Chuck