HI
After using this plugin for some time, this morning its stopped working.
I tried to delete the signature file, but still the same problem.
And i do not want to change my device name,,, I have other stuff that is depending on this.
So what to do now ?

Will buy it,,,, SU have needed this type of feature for a long time,,,, also I think more and more people are using SU for rendering,,, as it becomes more easy and speedy.

@sahi said:

The script selects the line or face.

The first icon >> click on it - and only the lines stand out >> again click on it >> disables script

The second icon >> click on it - and distinguished only by persons >> again click on it deactivates the script >>
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Hi Sahi

Have used this plugin for a long time, but now it do not work in SU 2015 ?
Can you fix that?

Thanks for your great support...
Claus
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@smicha said:

Claus,

Measure the sides of the triangles - if they are less than 1mm this is the reason why holes appear.

A solution can be: before triangulation scale your model, eg. 10 times, then triangulate, then scale your model down 10 times.

HI
Thanks for the idea, i tried it and it works, great tip for me.

Whaat
could this not be incorporated into the plugin also, first investigate all lines for the length, if any is too small, then scale the model as needed and then do the triangulation and then re-scale the model.

Claus

@tig said:

Is there a very tiny facet that returns invalid coordinates, that are regarded as the same because of the 'rounding' of its very close vertex-points ?

I just had a perhaps somewhat similar issue with my Octane Exporter [on their forum]... Someone has made a very small object that would have had overly tiny facets when created, if they hadn't scaled it up to process and then back down when done - the small facets can exists, it's just making them that's the issue. So far so good... now they exported it to OBJ format for use in Octane and there were tiny holes in the object when it rendered. Octane requires the OBJ to be in 'm' and have triangulated faces. In processing the meshes my tool uses the API methods to triangulate the mesh's faces. I now think that what was happening was that the triangulation of some tiny quad faces resulted in two triangulated facets that are so small that they have two vertices that 'round' to be at the 'same point' [the OBJ format is set to 'm' 6 d.p.] - therefore that new facet can't exist as its only a 'line' at best, and the two parts can then be missed, out leaving a small quad shaped hole when the object is reformed from the OBJ data...
This could of course also mess with the tiny face's texture mapping ?

HI Tig and Thomthom
I have a similar issue when i try to use the quardface tool to triangulate the surfaces on a rounded corner. some surfaces are not triangulated and instead it have removed the surface, what makes a hole in the surface.
Attached is a pic of before and after triangulation.
Am i doing something wrong here? is it the model issue, or something with the plugin.??

I learned from another post that i can come around this issue by scaling the model 10 times bigger and then do the triangulation, and then scale it down again to the original size. That work's, but that should be possible to incorporate in to the plugin or?

Claus S

@whaat said:

I agree that proper scaling should be done by default in SketchUV. Hopefully, in the future I can implement this. You might want to try ThruPaint by Fredo. I think it might do what you want.

Hi
Yes tried the truepaint and it do a very good job in many situations. and most important it keep the aspect. and that is what sketchuv is missing 100%... It is not really workable in the way it handle aspect today.

Another issue I have found is that the triangulation in my models are not working 100%, some times it create holes in the surface. Pleas have a look at the attached pic.
What am i doing wrong? or is it the model? or is it the plugin?

Claus

@smicha said:

Claus,

1. Rotate the texture by 90deg. - simply select faces with the texture, run sketchuv, type 90

2. Some calculations: 3300/1250 = 2.64; 10000/3670 = 2.72.
   Again, select faces with the texture, run sketchuv, type /2.64v, then /2.72u (u and v are changed/shifted due to the prior rotation in step 1.)

PS. Your problem is strictly connected with my question about normalizing size of textures. It would be great to select one texture and normalize its size on different objects. I hope to see the update of the plugin soon.

Kind regards,

smicha

HI Smicha
It works, but it is a very time consuming process, and to keep track of the U V direction is not easy.
Thanks for your instructions.

Dale
There for sure is space for improvement or should I say functionality of this plugin.
You see to keep the aspect of a texture is very important when you use wood textures, but even fabric and other textures that are more of an even pattern need to keep the aspect.

Dale, what can be done on this issue???

I bought the plugin and it do what it say, but I can really not use it for many of my projects.

Claus S

@smicha said:

Claus,

The solution for your problem is simple. Please attach the bent shape in skp file and I will write exactly what to do.

smicha

Hi

Thanks for offering a solution...
The attached skp is just a simple sample,,, my components are many and very different in shape. So what I am looking for is a general solution / workflow to keep the aspect-ratio of the texture....

Claus S

sketchuv.skp

HI

On the attached pic you can see o the left a 10000x3300 mm plane where i have applied a texture (10000x3300 pix png file).
Now i make a simple curved surface and apply a planar map with sketchuv, you can see that the sketchuv texture are re sized to fit the whole curved surface. I save the uv's and apply the wood texture and load Uv's, what happen is that the 10000x3300 pix texture get re-sized to fit the whole curved surface.
now i will need to re-scale the wood texture with sketchuv manualy what never will be perfect.
If i change the dimensions in the texture / material editor it will re-scale all textures in the whole model.
Any solution to that issue???

Claus S

HI

Have now bought the plugin and tried it.

What happen is that I use planar mapping and it wrap the sketchUV texture around the component. I save uv's and then apply the texture that i want to use on this surfaces, then i load the uv's. what happen is that it re-scale my texture in a non-uniform way. My texture is a 10000x3300 pix png file and it looks terrible.

How to keep a uniformed scale of you end texture while using sketchUV???
Something i miss here or???
Or it can only be used with squared sizes-ed texture files??

Claus S

@smicha said:

Claus,

All uvs are properly exported using TIG's exporter. This is the only exporter I am using for Octane render. In your example I used tube mapping, which is extremely useful on round edges.

Kind regards,

smicha

HI

Thanks for the demonstration, it seams that there is a texture lineup problem vertically in the middle of the component but i guess it is just a matter of adjustment.
Also it seams that the texture on the flat surfaces do not continue on the round surfaces, but again i guess it is a issue that can be solved.

I will most-likely buy the plugin and test it out, hope it is easy to use and can make some of my texture mapping easier.

Claus S

@whaat said:

@unknownuser said:

HI

Looks like a great plugin. I am considering buying the plugin.
I am the user of Sketchup and Octane render, have any one tested if the UV mapping created with sketchuv are correctly exported with the octane render exporter (made by TIG).
I mean both normal faces and triangulated faces.
???

Brg.
Claus

It should work fine with Octane render. If you are getting unexpected results, try triangulating your faces using the tool in SketchUV. The tutorials on the Smustard website demonstrate the workflow.

Cheers,
Dale

Hi

Thanks for the confirmation.
One more thing i need to check before I buy is... Will this UV tool be able to handle wood veneers / materials well??

I have some curved parts with a big rounding on the edges where I want to apply a wood material.

I have attached a link to the skp and wood texture file, can you pleas apply it on the part so it goes nicely around the curved and rounded edge.???
If it work it will save me hundreds of hours and I will for sure buy the plug-in.

https://skydrive.live.com/redir?resid=C4272F611B80808D!579&authkey=!AHm5_fQQpDMVA2c

Pleas tell me if the link do not work.

Brg.
Claus

HI

Looks like a great plugin. I am considering buying the plugin.
I am the user of Sketchup and Octane render, have any one tested if the UV mapping created with sketchuv are correctly exported with the octane render exporter (made by TIG).
I mean both normal faces and triangulated faces.
???

Brg.
Claus

HI

I use cutlist today, but i would like to have more options / function.
I have attached a pic of what I would like to have from cutlist when i export to a csv file.

I would like to have a function where i can assign surface material and surface treatment to each individual surface of a component.
In this way it could be in some way exported to the CSV file.
Also I want to assign a base material of the component fx, PB, MDF, solid wood ect.

All this info will give me a m2 of different surface materials and treatments, for cost calculation. It will also clearly tell the production department the requirements for each single part and it's surfaces.

Is this posible to do in some way in sketchup in combination with cutlist???

Base material
Surface material 1
Surface material 2
Surface material 3
Surface material 4
Surface material 5
Surface material 6
Surface treatment 1
Surface treatment 2
Surface treatment 3
Surface treatment 4
Surface treatment 5
Surface treatment 6

Hi ishboo

First of all, thanks for a great plugin, I have used it a lot in my technical product development of furniture's.
Our department are the part of the company that prepare every furniture detail (product description) for the production.
For this we use sketchup and the cutlist plugin.

We many times have base materials like 18mm particle board, then some surfaces have veneer on them and some melamine, on top of that we have some kind of surface treatment.
Melamine do not have any surface treatment
Oak veneer have NC lacquer

Would it be possible to add this "surface treatment" function so that cut list could list that too in the exported csv file???

In some way we need to make it possible to assign a surface treatment to a surface or material.

I really hope that some one could help me with this as then we could do all material / treatment assignment in sketchup and finally export it to a CSV file.

@unknownuser said:

Indeed that was not exactly the same
Seems very practical for packaging

For the fun maybe you can make something with Sketchyphysics3
Put all components in a big transparent box
And rotate this big box
As each components have their own density
they move between them with different speed
so natural order

Just idea before the Chris'plug

PS Don't understand the order shown
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Yes it is not 100% in good order,,, the best would be to have the same components laying in top of each other or maybe in the end of each other..
It really depend on different type of products...

Any ideas is welcome...

Thanks,,,

@unknownuser said:

Seems Grow by Tig makes some things that you wish and more as it makes size for the same price
Or I don't understand that you want

Thanks for you're attention to this, but that is not exactly what i want it to do...

I have attached 2 pic that describe the start model and what i want the ruby to do...

Chris what do you think???

@chris fullmer said:

That is do-able. I don't know if I can get to it right away, but its a fairly straightforward script to write. I'm not convinced it will work magically, but I suppose it will automate a big part of your process.

Chris

Yes it will not do all things needed for the finish packing solution,,, but it will automate a big part of that process...

Well take you're time,,, and if any information needed then just ask..... thanks a lot for looking at this for me...

BRG...

Claus

HI

I hope someone can advice me of a plugin that can do as described below.

I want a plugin that can move and rotate all selected components

I want the plugin to rotate all components with the longest side of the component in the X axes direction

Rotate all the component so the biggest area surface is faced in the z axes direction.

Move all components so they are stacked in top of each other, like in a big pile of components that just lay in top of each other.

I am doing a lot of furniture’s made of different components, I need to make a rough packing instruction for the shipment department so I need to arrange all the components so they will take up minimum of space in the packing.

I really need some help where I can find a plugin to do this job..

Hope to hear from any one soon.... thanks in advance...

BRG.

Claus S

@santiagom said:

Works ok now TIG

Thanks a lot

Hi TIG

I have start using the component reporter with some of my projects..
I use it to drag out the size of each component... so that parts is ok..

I like to add some more information to each component so i have tried to add some text in the "NAME" input fild on the "Entity info" window, but that do not show up in the report... can that be fixed???

hope you are still working on this great RB...!!!