Posts made by marksup

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SketchUp BIM still a dream? Not necessarily! (see http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=180&t=36803)

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I became alarmed at the significant differences in the appearance of my WebDialogs depending on the active browser (IE9, IE8, Chrome or Firefox) and so, based on the excellent advice above, added the following to my HTML...

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC '-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN'
'http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd'>
<html xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml' xml;lang='en'><head><meta http-equiv='X-UA-Compatible' content='IE=8; charset=iso-8859-1'/></head>

This did wonders for the consistency, but as a direct result my <body scroll='no'> statement became ignored and a vertical scrollbar appeared. This was solved by using <body style='overflow-y:hidden'> instead.

I also lost the use of 1.chr as the first space for textarea text - since 32.chr (the standard space) had always been ignored (except on a MAC!).

Of more interest now... how to invalidate the maximise option (i.e. to keep the WebDialog panel at the original specified size) since max_width and max_height don't perform this function. Has anyone a suggestion?

marksup

I have been developing an Automated Construction Planning plugin for the last couple of years, and I am hoping that there are some Quantity Surveyorsand/or Construction Plannerswho use SketchUp (PC preferred to MAC) who would be interested in trying out the current functions and providing comments, suggestions, or even sample data.

In addition to the Planning functions (Analysis, Classification, Scheduling/review/video generation, and MS Project XML export) there is also IFC file import, Clash detection, Window/Door Cutout from Walls, and Section Cut management. You can find out more at http://www.SUperPlan.info

I believe that this type of functionality places SketchUp at the leading edge of the BIM process by automatically leveraging implicit concept model data to initialise critical downstream processes such as BOM creation, costing and planning. I think that there is incredible potential, but, more importantly, what does everyone else think?!