Posts made by jojo9

confusing if su works that way-
i will look into it. Dankschön.

Driven, im surprised. I like very much how i set the button/focus accessibility on my system and havent suspected that feature to interfere with SU. Its like you said: turned off, Su behaves again like expected.

Thanks for helping.

somebody so generous to share how to mirror objects, like with the common flip along red/green/blue axis shipped with Su?
shortcuts are a good way, as Driven correctly pointed out, but sometimes i get a beep with these commands mapped on shortcut key.

i searched alredy for snippets on the Su Ruby api documentation, but cant find one …

luxurious way to add icons…nice one!

however, the batch command doesnt work for me…i get the loading image, but this process continues forever. Where looks your plugin for, example, "*.skp" files?
Else, thanks!

oh, i forget : im on Mac 10.7.5, and use Su13 make

nice one, could be useful for landscape modeling in my case.
ive probems to draw the depth plane.

-i loaded a bitmap noise image into su
-i defined the origin and width, while with depth im unable to confirm, the click is blocked.
Also using a numerical imput and confirming that op doesnt work.

(mac, su13 free)

small but a very nice idea!

as i see from your example, we should get texture on the projected as on the self shadow.
Maybe i did too few tests, but my projected shadow rests always the default one, without texture.Hm…

oh, yeah! thats true, i forgot the parenthesis, and it was the core file. Thanks sdmitch!

Now i got it working, yay!

Thomthom, your plugin looks quite useful, so i tried to add a toolbar button because digging in menus isnt my thing.
i wanted to ask you some help embedding that button in the right place…with all the loaders of the last time, its confusing to get where to insert other code. (id prefer not, but…its the magic toolbar button… and solely that)

anyway, when i try to add a toolbar button code block after the extension code block in tt_replacer, i get:

Error Loading File tt_replacer.rb
wrong number of arguments (2 for 1)

heres the code:

#=begin     
    cmd = UI;;Command.new( PLUGIN_NAME, loader )
#    cmd.small_icon =  "Images/icon_16.png"
    cmd.tooltip = "Component Replacer"
    tb= UI.toolbar "ThomThom"
    tb.add_item(cmd)
#=end

often i use the move tool (m), or i insert a component from the compo. browser and then, try to switch to the cursor.
-the cursor is spacebar button on Mac-

but instead to switch to the cursor, Su opens the model info window. I had that problem also with prior free/make- Su versions.

Hi TIG,
i found one of your (older?) plugins-SectionCutFace.rb
Its excellent for my use! …and about your Slicer…speakless. As i like to work very much with carton…

@pilou said:

So a chair deformed on an Arc circle ?

The Flowify above make that!

If it's chair not deformed on an arc you have Component stringer by Chris Fullmer

all right, ill check that out…time to play

…rather not. These are always great plugins. The first is kind of magic, and the second is more a performance plugin.

probably i used the wrong words to explain what i search.
example.
When we build a tube with changing directions, we build first a path, then a circle and use the follow-me tool to build our final tube.

now, my request is similar. I build some lines and assign to each line segment a component(the same or another), who places itself over the line, using the z axis of the component to have the right orientation respective the (guide) line. The component instance can be an arbitrary one.
I can think of it as use for interior design and creative modeling.

Ill do some tests with thomthom's compo. replacer

wow, awesome!
thanks Pilou, em…mercy beaucoup!

Pilou, youre full of surprises…
nice plugin, and useful for me too. Nice find, man!

However, my posting was more about abstract modeling, or modeling with proxies, with lines, which can be wrapped with components of your choice…

how to turn a existing complex tube structure from a quadrangular shape in another one, like esagonal one?

Usually in 3d we refer to bone = rigging, and Su doesnt support that feature.
However, what if solids could refer to a z and x construction cross ("bone") so that we could build with that bone instead to deal with the solids components/groups itself?

Later, we could wrap those bones with the desired solid components/groups.

i downloaded your plugin yesterday and tested it today. Unfortunately, Su13 (Mac) wasnt able to load your plugin and i got following errors in the ruby console:

undefined method `instance_variable_defined?' for S4U;Module
Error Loading File s4u_aligntool.rb
undefined method `instance_variable_defined?' for S4U;Module

I corrected some errors:

• i installed a missing ruby: langhandler.rb
• i changed line 4 to:

@s4u_menu=UI.menu("Plugins").add_submenu("Suforyou")  if !@s4u_menu #if !S4U.instance_variable_defined?(;@s4u_menu)

the same applies also for s4u_material!

now everything works. Please review your code, else thank your very much!

Thanks, but you need not to explain what your plugin does, its obvious. Its perfect for those who want more control over the mirroring action. Btw, wasnt my intention to reduce your work, you made a great script.

Since im a huge fan of toolbar buttons, id enjoy to have those simple mirror commands shipped with su only, but as three scripts.

yes, thats a good way. In the past i used tons of keyboard shortcuts, but nowadays i prefer toolbars. Nevertheless, thanks!

TIG is a great coder, but this plugin is again a kind of align-tool. The mirror options of the context menu are faster and simpler