Hi all,
Here is what I ended up with

Dropdown list now updates automatically when you add, erase, or modify a section.
The section plane that you select in the list is activated immediately (no need to click on a "apply" button anymore).
Tooltips added when mouse hovers icons

The row of icons, left to right, do the following:

• invert the section plane (toggle)
• add a section plane
• show all section planes (toggle)
• draw the section or not (toggle)
• fill or not the section (toggle)
• align view to the section plane
• perspective/parallel camera (toggle)
• display help file

See top of this topic to download the latest RBZ version.

Enjoy!

@Box and JQL:

Done. See top of this topic.
Enjoy !

@srx:

No, it won't work in SU2017, because sections names and symbols were introduced in SU2018.

@ pbacot,

Sections are in the Outliner (new in version 2018 I think)

About hidden layers: if your sections are on a hidden layer, the plugin also works, but you will not see the sections planes appear in the viewport. Same goes for sections that are hidden entities (masked).
Maybe I'll enhance the script to make them appear and hide them again after the command ends

Hi all,

Here is a little plugin I needed for my personal use. When having a bunch of section planes in the model, it can be quite annoying to have to activate a particular section plane (display section planes, select the desired one, right-click and choose "activate", etc).
This plugin lets you select the section plane in a dialog box, and more.
Usage: select "Sections Manager" from the Window menu.
(2 languages included: fr,us)
For SU v2018 and up.

Final version 06/06/18 (RBZ extension):
2 languages included: french, english. Easy to localize for your own language.
See PDF help file included (click on the ? button).

DBUR_SectionsManager_v110.rbz

Bonjour Christophe:

• Oui une version française est incluse (encore heureux...)
• Il y aura un fichier de traduction non-codé pour tout autre langage.
• Il y aura beaucoup plus de fonctionnalités et de types de pièces de bois que dans HouseBuilder, en saisie manuelle ou en automatique (murs, planchers, toits)
• Types de bois: poteau, solive, linteau, lisse, chevron, planche de rive, contreventement, panne faitière.
• On trouvera l'extension sur la 3D WareHouse.

• Barre d'outils, de gauche à droite:
  saisie manuelle de pièces de bois,
  saisie de plancher
  trémie dans plancher
  mur
  porte
  fenêtre
  entretoises
  revêtements contreplaqué
  toit en shed ou à 2 pans
  toit plat
  export quantitatif vers Excel
  aide

Je pense rendre le plugin compatible avec Estimator (d'où le délai avant publication)

A+

J'ai pas encore de date de sortie, je prends du retard en ce moment...

Wait guys, just a little patience

HouseBuilder is about to become SUFramer soon with lot of features (including exporting quantities to Excel).

Look at this:
https://extensions.sketchup.com/en/content/scenes-tools

Hi Chrisjmitchell,

You can also use my scenes tools extension:
https://extensions.sketchup.com/en/content/scenes-tools
With it you can manage cameras, fogs, layers visibility, shadows settings (and more) from one scene to antother in a copy-paste manner.

Try this: http://www.openspace3d.com/
French tech, and FREE !

Hi,

Check this one by Aerilius: http://rhin.crai.archi.fr/rld/plugin_details.php?id=990

Hi all,

I recently faced the problem of "how to handle licence information" for a plugin I'm developing. I have read this page http://stg.www.sketchup.com/intl/en/developer/docs/tutorial_licensing which helps but the issue is that I have no "extension_info.txt" file for my plugin, as it is not yet released on the EW.
Using another "extension_info.txt" from another plugin doesn't help of course, and the plugin doesn't load.
Any help will be much appreciated ! Thanks in advance

New features added on top of this post

Hi Jef,

There's no release date, but reasonably I can say that it will be released before end of June.
There are still some bugs to fix...

Hi Pilou,

No render engine is required and no render engine is included in the plugin.
The trick is to use WebGL and Three.js (library of webgl) to send the geometry directly to the GPU via the browser (IE,FF,Safari, etc).
So all you need is SketchUp and a web browser

@
Hi facer,

A camera for each scene is on the drawing board
Clipping planes are complex to implement in three.js, as they involve fragment shaders which are a headache...

EDIT: May,6th

I've recently implemented some new features:

• pointlights, spotlights, lens flares
• controls for clouds color and opacity
• scenes support: retrieve all your sketchup cameras in the web page
• clipping planes: cut or slice your model, everywhere you want to
• stereo viewing for 3D glasses
• statistics HUD
• screenshot key that will open a PNG image in a new tab of the browser (to save the render)
• new simplified dialog box

Hi all,

I will release my next extension soon. So here's what it does:

Basically it converts your Sketchup model to a web page so you can achieve descent renderings of yours models in a few seconds.

Main features:

• Automatic export to OBJ or DAE format and conversion to HTML5-WebGL fomat.
• Directly opens the page in your browser.
• Renderings: Sketchup-like, flat colors, bumped textures, clay, custom shader, glass/crystal/gold/silver/copper renders, normals, depth, anaglyph, wireframe.
• Camera: perspective, orthographic.
• Lighting support: ambient light, headling, hemisphere light, sun light, shadows quality
• Infinite ground, sky color, physical sky, fog
• Preset skyboxes and skyspheres, custom skyboxes and skyspheres.
• GUI interface in the brower to tweak all properties of the render, shaders, lighting, and model controls (translation, rotation, scale, visibility).
  Helpers: grid, axes, camera frustrum, shadow map, hemisphere lighting, bounding box.

Here are some screenshots:

Hi all,

Anyone encountered the same problem as me ? Just do the following:
Create a simple class:

class Test
	attr_accessor ;model
	def initialize()
		@model = Sketchup.active_model
	end
end

Instanciate an object of that class:

obj=WebGLExporter;;Test.new()

Look at this object:

obj.inspect

Here's what I get:

#<WebGLExporter::Test:0x19dbaa18 @model=#<Sketchup::Model:0xe272680 @tt_bezier_surface_editor=#TT::Plugins::BezierSurfaceTools::BezierSurfaceEditor:0x139ef300>>

Thomthom, I have your Bezier surface plugin installed, along with TT_Lib2 of course.
What do you think ??

Hi all,
Here are the latest extensions I've recently published to the Extensions Warehouse, or made compatible with the latest versions of SU:

• Scenes Tools: Set of 24 commands to quickly copy-paste elements (shadows, camera, layers, hidden entities...) from one scene to one or more scenes.

• Axes Manager: 13 tools to save, restore, delete, list the axes systems of the model, and quickly activate axes presets (just like Autocad does).

• 3D Grid Tool: Creates 2D/3D grids, X,Y,Z steps paramétric, on any plane.

• Arcs Circles +: Additionnal commands to draw arcs, circles, polygons and ellipses (bugs fixes).

• Dimension Tools: Set of 11 interactive tools to easily insert and modify dimensions in your model: rotate, split, merge, trim, chain, and more.

Happy SketchUping

Hi John,

No, the bak file doesn't work either. I suppose that the scene file is OK but that there is something wrong with my Mitsuba installation or configuration...