Posts made by panixia

@baz said:

Panixia, Can you tell me the name of the Plugin you are using for this? I have always only scaled circles to produce ellipses til now. Thanks.

It's called "Tools on surface" and it's part of the Fredo bundle.
I strongly reccomend to buy the bundle because every single plugin in that collection is absolutely a banger. (Pay attention to the fact that you also need the free libfredo6 shared library to make those plugins work).

http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=76625#p76625

@baz said:

Damn! Something was niggling me about those lines and points... ellipse major minors of course... I have used Ellipses in my work for years. And always with the major/minor stick method.
Thanks Panixia.

Sometimes actually "less is more"

It's actually simpler than it looks (and I'm really bad at math).
An ellipse is actually the collection of the points that are found were the sum of theyr distance from focal points is the same.
It may sound even more complicated in this way, but that's actually how you can easyly draw an ellipse in real world (a bezier spline would be actually quite a bit more complex to replicate with a pencil, a simple string and a couple of nails).
Look at this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGpCksJnYdA

@rich o brien said:

I'm not sure what those red and blue points are. But I don't think they are bezier related.

They are the focal points of two different ellipses.
The green and the purple are the center of two arcs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gxzd8WMYDnI

Nothing happens.
Regular sketchup move tool is triggered both with double M key and double toolbar button press.
The same happens with the rotate tools both in SU 2020/21.

The version on the download page is still v1.1b
By the way in v1.1b the M+M shortcut still doesn't work on my SU2020/SU2021.

@joe wood said:

I know nothing about mapping, could you explain that a little panixia?

Here's a comprensive video about thrupaint usage.
I guess you'll find it useful.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2QjLlUQVrY&t=44s

You could easily map those curved surfaces if you just use Thrupaint plugin set to "Natural Mapping" method and "By surface" selection mode.

@rich o brien said:

Added the retopologised model to the shop for anyone that feels like having some fun with it.

QuadRemesher in Blender?

@rich o brien said:

Blender Cycles do I could use displacement.

Nice DOF effect too..

Super cool!
Which render engine did you use?

@optimaforever said:

Note that my meshes aren't perfectly quadbased; there are sometimes tris. I'm wondering how it will manage that ;D

It will work as expected: will create a proper diagoanl for each quad and will leave any other polygon (triangle or ngon) as it is.

@optimaforever said:

triangulate the quad mesh prior to drop vertices to keep the quadness? interesting

Yes, exactly.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q582fh_r540

@rich o brien said:

Earbuds

Nice and clean job.
Really clever use of the "two step" subdivision on the hole.
I use that trick a lot.

@optimaforever said:

@thomthom @TIG
I love TIG's drop vertice feature when I need to conform a quad web onto a given (usually triangulated) surface below for topography mesh for instance. It works but I lose the quad property of the net.
Is it possible to adapt TIG's code to keep the "quad-ness" while dropping the vertices?

If you triangulate the quadmesh (using the triangulate command in QFT) it will work like a charm.
This trick will work also for artisan brush and some other tools which don't "officially" support quads.

Honestly I wasn't trying to propose a workaround, just trying to better "isolate" the problem to give some more clue to Thomas.

I confirm this happens when you try to bridge 2 edges which are not coplanar.
doesn't happen if they are more than 2 or if they are 2 but still coplnar.

@box said:

Get a life.

It's really amazing to see how some people have all this time to waste complaining about a $ 40 request compared to all the time these extensions save you.

@mill3rluke said:

Hi All,

I use SU extensively for work, usually I model the project in SU and then detail using Autocad. I have layout although it does have its uses for some bits but i just preferer Autocad. I would like to start rendering some of my projects but im on a super budget. I would be interested to hear anyone's suggestions cheap rendering packages or any workarounds to make a more presentation during the final design to send to the client for approval.

see link below for some examples + pictures of the scheme in construction.

https://ln5.sync.com/dl/1e47f1540/npanmzn3-2748qapy-ec3hna8r-adckwv95

thanks

I would suggest to give a try to D5 render, which is pretty good and easy to use, works very well with Sketchup and is quite cheap being that is actually free.
The only drawback is that it requires a GPU suitable for raytracing, so make sure you've got one if you want try it.

@gábor said:

We are looking into the issues you have raised.

@kinesis said:

Also a question.
How do you move your Wrap-R license to your new computer?
There is some issues when I first installed the program. I thought SketchUp version might be problem so I repeatedly installed and uninstalled Wrap-R several times. Then I can't license it any more. 3 seats came with the single purchase. So I wonder if I used them all.

About the licence. As I see your Wrap-R 2022 licence has been activated on 1 device. So you should be able to install it on 2 further devices.

Hi Gabor, nice to see you around after a while.
I've sent you a mail a long time ago, I fear you missed that.