New Update: Composition Guides v0.0.7

Available at:

Gumroad SketchUcation PluginStore SketchUp Extension Warehouse
If you already installed v0.0.6 then you can update to v0.0.7 from SketchUp:

You can follow the steps below regardless of where you downloaded the extension. However, the SketchUp Extension Warehouse and SketchUcation PluginStore have their own way to update the extension. I suggest updating the extension with the steps below if you downloaded the extension from my Gumroad store.

Go to Extensions > i3D > Compositions Guides > Check for Update If there is an Update available a Notification will pop-up Follow the Installation Instructions.

What is New:
Scene Buttons now have tooltips

https://global.discourse-cdn.com/sketchup/original/3X/3/8/380c29128eb1847c37a37e9d62358e05f3c6cb19.gif

The Plus button now adds a new scene with a user-specified name.
More info: A user by the name @EstOuest wanted this feature and I even created a standalone plugin that can be downloaded for free HERE. The original forum post can be found HERE.

https://global.discourse-cdn.com/sketchup/original/3X/e/2/e250bc166b9587a1b4874740945618d713ba2844.gif

New Aspect Ratios Added:

3:2 - Landscape 2:3 - Portrait 1:1.618 - Golden Ratio ( Landscape) 1.618:1 - Golden Ratio (Portrait)

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New UI Design: Do you like the new UI design?

https://global.discourse-cdn.com/sketchup/original/3X/c/2/c28fd56380751b8829db0e999afbe734df6935a6.png

If you click the logo it will open my Gumroad store where you can download other extensions that I have developed.

Below are some features that are not new but have never been explained before:
Save UI position

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Toggle All Composition Guides with a double click:

https://global.discourse-cdn.com/sketchup/original/3X/5/3/5353b8ab43f763195a03d3366c5a8338f4b343ae.gif

Toggle by Section with a double click:

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That’s it for now.
If you find any bugs or have any suggestions & feedback then I would greatly appreciate it if you share them with me. 😄

Bravo ! Well done 👍

For ideas of where to take this tool I would look at Blender's Loop Tools.

Having this in SketchUp with support for QFT would be a good toolset.

Extension Update Grabby (1.0.3)

What is New…

Added cursor to FaceGrab and EdgeGrab. Changed some toolbar icons. Fixed bug that prevents activating another tool with just one click. Fixed ShrinkGrab bug that left selected edges behind.

Example of ShrinkGrab working properly now...
Before...

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After...

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Beautimus! My one criticism would be that I think you need to add some life (people, cars, etc.).

Our API into the dev tools area has the ability to make analytical info

Hi,

I was not expecting it to be that difficult and don't think its practical anymore to use custom fonts on my plugins.

Maybe I'll start looking into drawing images again. 😕

Thanks for your help!

When you iterate a collection - like pages, or selection or entities, and change that collection's contents - e.g. by deleting something - then you get issues because the collection changes as a result.
BUT if you 'freeze' the collection, but using .to_a OR perhaps you collect items, which are then deleted afterwards, after you exit using the collection... then it avoids the issue.

Welcome back 😉

Nice render too.

You can collect all the separate loop-segments from the selection and then treat them separately.

If you made the assumption that the user only selected one edge in each of the loops he/she wants selected then it's easier - as you just need to iterate each edge in selection and build a loop for each one.

But it could be that the user selected multiple segments of a loop, in which you would have to detect this as well. Or, thinking of it, you could just ignore the fact that some are connected, just build the loop anyway and make sure you don't process an edge that's already in a generated loop.

@renderiza said:

@3dsmax9 said:

loop selection is great, is it possible to do a ring selection ?

ThomThom's Quadface tools has a ring selection feature and more.
:

Have a look at how I defined a"quad" in QuadFace Tools. Both Fredo and TIG use that in some of their plugins which give a nice interobility.
https://bitbucket.org/thomthom/quadface-tools/wiki/Overview#!quadface-definition

Just a brief history of why I picket the set of properties I did for the diagonal edges:

Hidden property doesn't smooth the shading of the quad. Each triangle would be shaded flatly. Soft+Smooth give nice shading, but if you want to make the whole mesh also appear soft+smooth then the quads will break. Soft+Smooth + CastShadow=false gave the best result for me. Once could create a mesh with quads where the border edges of the quads could also be soft+smooth.

I didn't use an attribute because they are slow - performance was important here when traversing thousands of entities. And I liked that you could create the quad manually via the UI if you wanted to. The one thing that is still an issue is that if you use the Soften Edges tool in SU it might unsoft some diagonals.

@renderiza said:

@thomthom said:

Have you used GitHub and git before?

Github | Bitbucket
I now love Repositories like Github & Bitbucket they are really useful and make my life easier so thank you for mentioning them. 👍

Excellent! If you aren't using it already I'd recommend SourceTree as a really nice and good GUI that can handle both Git and HG as well as managing your repositories hosted at GitHub and BitBucket.

I'm in the progress of writing a new set of core classes that will return quad faces from a set of SketchUp entities. I'll make this as generic and small as possible (and fast) so ti can be easily implemented in extensions that want to support quads. I'd love to see more quad-based tools.
QuadFace Tools grew to a decent size, but there is's just the basics. There is much more that would be great to have.

Elibjr: Well thank you sir I appreciate your support to sketchUcation. 😉

JQL: Really like the humor you bring to your comments...cheers! 😄

plesiosaur: Maybe you were trying to select groups & components? Thank you for your feedback I will try to solve it soon. 👍

cotty: Thank you it means a lot! 👍

tridem: Thanks! 💚

Pilou: Yes that is the basic idea...Every selected entity will cast a ray into the camera eye and if nothing is in the way the selection will be maintained, else it will get removed from selection.

samothrace41: Thank you and welcome to sketchUcation!

numerobis: You welcome thanks for the comment!

chris87: I am glad you found it useful...welcome to sketchUcation!

glro: Currently working on it! Thank you for feedback! 👍

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