hi anton - i hope everything is going well

dohh - thanks for the quick answer

jorgensen

Hi

my sketchup has become quite unstable (when using octane render), and i therefore deactivated my license and uninstalled sketchup.

but to my surprice, the newly installed sketchup has some of the old plugins, and it seems i somehow can't get rid of them.

i have tried to uninstall them via the extension manager - and it goes fine. but when i restart sketchup - they are all back

can anyone help?

thanks
jorgensen

@anton_s
just curious - are you working on this plugin / feature?

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jorgensen

SSS - Soft Surface Simulator

Hi Anton

I think you should think in search therms / what it does - use words that people search for - i searched for "cloth simulator", so that would be my suggestion (even though is does more).

Will I be possible to pick the cloth itself - and deform it?

Can you talk about an estimated development time? Like one week or two months?
(I know it can be difficult talking about that).

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Jorgensen

hi anton

my personal thought - release it as quick as possible

but if i was you, i would design it as a "cloth plugin" for sketchup, that makes it very clear what the plugin is used for - and consider make it a "pay for" plugin - good plugins takes time to develop and i'm sure people will pay, if the quality is there

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jorgensen

That would be very very cool Anton!

It would make cloth creating a lot easier.
Just create a flat cloth, add a nice texture, animate the cloth onto a chair, stop the animatin, make small adjustments with artisan or like - and render.

Can we set the resolution of the cloth?

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Jorgensen

So it might work with msphysics?

I hope as I don't have access to su 2016 anymore.

Ok. Have that.

I was just surprised that it works in sketchup 2017 / 64 bit.

Jorgensen

and how the ..... have you made that fantastic cloth?
i don't see that as a material type...

hi faust

that is so cool - i have tried to install MSPhysics in sketchup 2017, and it seems to run - do i need more than that?

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jorgensen

hi pilou

thanks - drape cpoints looks very interesting. i will test that out.

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jorgensen

hi

i wonder if anyone knows of a standalone cloth simulator?
i would like to create a plaid that lays over a chair, like the one in the attached image.

i have tried using artisan, but i'm finding it quite hard (but maybe not impossible) to create something similar.

therefore, does anyone now of a plugin that can simulate cloth in sketchup, or some kind of standalone simulator that imports obj files (the chair) and exports obj files?

any input is very welcome
jorgensen

just tried to grow an ivy and render with octane.

it seems that octane somehow moves or resets the leaves scale or something....

does anyone know what's going on and if it can be fixed?

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jorgensen

has anyone got this to work with su2017?

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jorgensen

oh it seems that one can't change a component attributes when multiple selected

hi

i have a family (component) in revit that shows a car.

i use this family to populate a car park, i place all the families and then i select some random instances and then i can deselect "show car" via a checkbox - this way i can give the car park some randomness.

my knowledge to dynamic components is very limited, so i would like to hear if it's somehow possible to create the same in sketchup, before i use time to figure out how

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jorgensen

is there a way to pan the drawing inside the 'frame' - or do i need to move the drawing and resize the frame everytime i need to pan the view?

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jorgensen

Hi everyone

I normally sketch, create elevations, plans and sections in Revit.
Then i link the revit file into 3ds max where i create illustrations.

Sometimes when i need more control over textures and need to do fast adjustments to details, i export the drawing as dwg and then model and render in sketchup.

I find sketchup very fast and intuitive, and have used it on / off for over ten years now.

I wonder if i can create a complete project in sektchup? by this i mean

• plans
• sections
• elevations
• illustrations (i now i can)

and set them up on A3 paper.

I have tried some years ago, i think it was when paper layout was introduced. But i found it very troublesome and hard to get the needed drawings, especially nice plans, as sketchup is using faces, and not solids - so i needed to use some plugins to add faces to section cuts - what a hassle it was.

I wonder if things have chanced since? what are your experiences?

Thanks
Jorgensen