Posts made by cotty

@hellnbak said:

Solo, you're the exception. Your models are in a whole galaxie apart from us regular modelers. The level of your work is completely unobtainable by people like me, so I don't feel threatened by them. Ok, sometimes I do bang my head against the wall, but I'm into pain so that's no problem.
In other words, I wanna see your Ariel Atom and new Zonda models. I just patched my wall so I'm ready.

+1

@unknownuser said:

It lists the last 5 Tools used and their short-cut keys [if any]
e.g. Select 'Space' , Line 'L' , Move 'M'

Thank you for this nice plugin. The mentioned display of the respective short-cuts doesn't work for me, is there a known reason for this behaviour?

@unknownuser said:

Onscreen rolling Reel

Search the index for plugin by Rich O'Brien

Thank you very much, I found it here. I searched osd, onscreen, ... but not "on screen" before

@tig said:

Yes...
You'd make a piece of screen-text [say 6 lines long] in one corner, that has an observer and when you change your current tool it recalculates the text - avoiding duplicating the current one if you are doing lots of moves for example.
Adds a new top one and removes the last one in the list - it looks up the shortcut key for each tool listed [if any] and adds that to the tool's name as you suggest and adds it IF it has a shortcut...

However, I can't see a big take up for this tool... so I won't be coding it any time soon...

I think I have read about a plugin like this recently but I am not able to find it anymore (perhaps wrong search words...). Does anyone know this plugin? It will be helpful for video tutorials...
Thanks,
Cotty

If there is no simple solution, maybe this is a point for the wishlist for SU9?!

Maybe section cuts together with TIGs plugin SectionCutFace will help you.
Often it is helpful to use parallel projection (menu -> camera) with the standard views (front, left, top, ...).

I use this fantastic Duh! from time to time and I often miss a copy-paste function to insert an image from the clipboard. Is there a simple workaround for this or maybe a plugin?

The real furniture will never look as good as the rendered ones, so why put them in? Buy some 3d-glasses...

somewhat complicated, but possible...

• Black & white image from coin
• Matlab (or free clones?) to display as 3D surface
• Export as STL
• Import in SketchUp
• Use as real 3D relief (if you have a faster computer than me ) ...

@unknownuser said:

Doesn't your 3D printer software provide this?

On mine I can dictate the internal lattice work form.

I don't have one, which one do you use?
I have used an online print service some times and therefore I have to care about those things on my own (I think?) because I only upload a final STL- or collada-file ...

May the force be with you (and your little gray cells)

Is there a plugin or a workflow to reduce material use within 3d printing like

• inner parts of a solid as honeycomb structure (picture)
• selective space structures
• ?

some more links...
scooter:
http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=81&t=33226&p=293278&hilit=+sds2+available#p293000

dog (Odie):
http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=335&t=33537&hilit=sds2+available#p295504

ear:
http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=335&t=33770&hilit=sds2+available&start=15#p297246

tube splitting:
http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=33735&p=296737&hilit=+sds2+available#p296737

sofa:
http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=81&t=33367&p=294398&hilit=+sds2+available#p294398
http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=81&t=33367&p=294398&hilit=+sds2+available#p294450

@hieru said:

I'm no expert, but here's my humble contribution.

Thank you. This thread should not (only) be one for experts but for those who wants to become an expert

Here is another thread with similar motivation: http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=335&t=37589

A ring-thing (make use of TIGs new plugin SplitDonut

proxy_ring.skp

One little question and so useful plugins as reply
TIG, you wrote these plugins faster than I can read the topics, wow! Thanks a lot..l

TIG did a fantastic set of plugins, which are the direct answer to my initial question:
http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?p=386658#p386658
Thank you very much!

Very helpful (e.g. for artisan proxy creation), thank you very much!

Thank you all for the helpful hints. Most of them work fine for regular and simple geometries, but

• draw in one corner and repeated rotational copy -> will not work for unsymmetrical follow me path
• move up and down in z -> difficult for many loops (e.g. sawtooth)

So I think the easiest way so far is the zorro-plugin (or knife from artisan) followed by the EEbyOffset (haven't tried yet)

(I want to use the technique for (better) proxy creation for artisan, see part of picture)

Is there an easy way to use follow me (or a plugin) and get the red marked lines within the follow me action?