Topics created by Didier Bur

Hi,
No need to convert it to CSV.
Here is what Autode$k says about ptsb format:

@unknownuser said:

Pointcount
X Y Z Intensity R G B
(Intensity is a float value 0-1)

Example:
2
0 0 0 .5 128 128 128
1 1 0 .5 128 128 128

Quite simple isn't it 😄
So open your file in a text editor, erase first line (number of points), save it to 'somefilename.txt' and it should work. Just set the points cloud reader first dialog to use a space delimiter, and second dialog to set X,Y,and Z coordinates as the first, second and third datum of each line (see below).
I've tried this example and it works.

Dialog 1
Dialog 2

Regards,

Thanks Whaat, it seems to works here too, even with a single element array.
Fingers crossed !

didier,

my mouth was watery after i saw the animation! i wish you find a way of making it public. it would be a success, for sure.

congratulations.

WOW an "official" recognition that there is or will be a SU 7 😍 😛 😛

Hi,
Nothing specified in the docs concerning normals. Doc is so sparse you know... 👎 I guessed that passing points in a counterclockwise order was orienting the normal up (assuming that these points are on an horizontal plane) ?
You can notice that once drawn, quads are visible from both sides. Is the normal useless or am I completely wrong ?

Salut, ton truc ne fonctionne pas 👎 👎

Hi @Didier-Bur, thank you for the tool. Is it possible to make <double line from selection> to work with line on a surface? I am trying to use tool to create grooves on a surface from a single line. My hack now is to use it to create a "groove" or Ridge with negative or positive values and join one by one to surfaces that I need a groove.

Using Object#respond_to? should also be possible. And if you really want to use "OnTransactionEnd", set an alias on "OntransactionCommit"

azuby

This is the documentation page I use - it's the most up-to-date:

http://groups.google.com/group/SketchUp-Plugins-Dev/web/Ruby-classes.html

Todd and Rick get all the credit for updating the docs - it's a thankless chore, no doubt.

I wish there was a way to see what changes have been made to the documentation. I've asked that document updates be logged for us, but maybe I'm asking too much.

merci pour ce plugin et pour la traduction !

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And I was looking at the top and side)) and it wasn't even visible below... it didn't fit into the screen)) thanks.

And I threw this picture on the file sharing site, maybe this plugin (1001) will help with pipes...

Merci Didier

pour toutes ces améliorations

MALAISE 👍

Does it work on 2013? When trying to do a circle spray the plugin will not accept the second point of the circle (or any of the available shapes for that matter).

Merci, je vais lire.

Thank you so much Didier for making all these wonderful plugins for free. All of them are saving from hours of extra work, very useful for architectural work ! Sketch Up users have almost nothing to envy to 3DS Max users, with a good practice skp can do almost anything thanks to developpers like you, TomTom, Tig, Fredo etc

Good work guys 😄

@kat said:

I don't get the
tangent = (normal * binormal)
multiplication. Isn't B supposed to be the cross product of N and T?

Makes no odds. Binormal and tangent both lie in the plane.

@kat said:

And why is gives

@adamb said:

(xform * binormal).length * (xform * tangent).length

you the scale factor?

I'm taking the unit vectors in the plane of the face and transforming them by the Group transform which may scale them. Getting the length in the binormal and tangent direction allows me to figure out how much to scale the area of the face accounting for the transform.

Adam

There's a huge issue with this tool (I noticed it after dekade of using 😮 ) -
it distorts objects. Additional operation needed (reset skew, rotation) afterwards. Any chance to to fix it please?

@unknownuser said:

{|e|model.import(comp.path)}

💭 💭 💭 as always, thanx TIG

@unknownuser said:

Question of a total candide 😒
There is no tool in Su for reccord actions on the screen for see the result in Ruby?

Do you know that such a thing was built into SU1 (before Ruby), but it was hidden? John Bacus and I had a little bit of an argument about it at 3DBC. I still think a macro recorder is a useful thing. But they pulled it out by SU2.

Hi,
I haven't SU2020 yet, but it works with my SU2019, apparently just a matter of loading policy, as TIG said.