Brilliant, Thanks TIG

Cheers,
J

Yup that is very weird. But the second image you described is exactly what happens whenever I try to run the fillet tool on SU 2016...one edge remains consistently highlighted and the curve reports as a series of edges...not an arc.

Cheers
J

Hi TIG

I'm not sure how to check if my other plugins conflict with 2D tools, but I've attached a SU 2016 file showing what I get when I try to fillet 2 edges with the plugin. It occurs every time with SU 2016, but works fine with SU 2015 (for me).

Hope this helps!

Cheers,
Joel

SU 2016 file

Hi TIG

I've found a new bug with v7.3 of this plugin when running SU 2016...

When creating 2D fillets , the resultant geometry no longer shows as pure arcs, but exploded edges. Have attached a screenshot.

There are no ruby console error messages, and it works fine in SU 2015.

Cheers!

Joel

Hey, brilliant plugin!

I can finally make complex lattice structures with the aid of Bezierspline and Curviloft...many possibilities for pseudo-parametric facades and forms as well (for the architects among us).

One minor bug I've found - I'm not sure how to describe it in words but there are some geometries that go jagged when mapping to a steeply curved surface - have a look at these screenshots.

The SketchUp file (I'm using SU Pro 2015) is too big to post here, but let me know of a way to send it to you if it helps...

Cheers
Joel

Have to say, this would be a dream come true for me. I've also been asking for something like this for quite a while, particularly for doing complex panelisation operations.

@jolran - I remember you telling me once that you were working on something off the back of hatchfaces; is that the propject that you are referring to in this topic? I can't seem to find any link to it though...Care to share??

Best of luck to you all!!

Joel

@jiminy-billy-bob said:

Does it happen in every file? Even a brand new one?

Yup, even with brand new files. I'm also having problems creating layer groups and new layers...they either simply won't create or when they are created they can't be renamed, and nothing can be added to them, visibility controls won't work etc.

Sometimes I lose all of the layer group structures I've created previously as well. This happens when I open more than one session of sketchup side by side...

Error message when I try to create new layer groups attached.

Cheers

Joel

@box said:

It's not quite what you want but Jim made a plugin to attach the camera to the sun so you can track the sun on your structure. Might help.
http://sketchucation.com/plugin/853-attach_camera_to_sun

Not quite the same I think...there's another plugin called Shadowtex (by Renderiza) that does something quite close by tracing a line from the center of every face to the sun's current position, but it uses this information to detect faces that are in shadow.

Maybe this technique can be modified to detect angles between faces and the sun angle? I know nothing about rubyscript, so unfortunately I wouldn't even know how to begin trying to build something like this...maybe one of the gurus here can have a think about it.

J

Hi

Is there an existing plugin that allows faces to be coloured or selected according to their angular relationship to the sun at any given time of the day?

This could allow me to select all the faces that are close to perpendicular to the sun angle at 9am, 12 noon, 3pm etc. Could be useful for mapping the path of the sun across a facade, so that different shapes/sizes of sun shading can be mapped onto relevant faces.

Any thoughts?

Joel

Hi

Have just downloaded the new version of Layers Panel (1.1.0) and I'm getting an error message when I try to create a new group or layer. Error message attached.

Also, I'm having trouble saving layer states. When I save and close a model, all the layer states come up empty again when I reopen it.

Once again, thanks for the great plugin...despite being a work in progress, it's already made it to the top of my list of most used plugins.

Keep up the awesome work!

Cheers
Joel