This site seems to be moribund, not a lot happening?
Anyway Ive solved the UI problem
so all working ok now
This site seems to be moribund, not a lot happening?
Anyway Ive solved the UI problem
so all working ok now
Hi guys
how or where do I post a skp model for discussion
also i cant post a link here?
robin
Hi all
great stuff pls keep it up. I will try to add my 2 cents as i progress
I cant post any links or skp models to demo my points, this is very limiting
Hi
i think ive solved the mystery re-installing su8 and sp3.1, the ui window now works BUT i cant make a revesrsible motor out of a hinge
I discovered that I could also instal sp2.o1b and this would allow a hinged reversible motor, why did this get left out of sp3?
Cant get the spring to do anything, and what does the corkscrew do other than reveolve in an uncontrolled way?
Lots of bugs to sort out in this plug in
robin
Hi guys
Im sure we all agree the math is the easy bit and I programmed it into Xcel to give the 3D coords - fine, but you have to input them to su to 10 decimal places to get fully coherent filled planes and accuracy - very tedious.
In case I didnt explain myself properly, just try constructing a 2D
d triangle with 3 unequal side say 1, 2 , 3
you wont manage it in SU by construction but you can calculate the point of intersection but to 10+ decimals
then go to the 3D case where you construct a tetrahedron all with unequal sides
I will look at the other stuff posted in the next couple days
cheers new year thingy
help UI window not working
Postby robint on Mon Jan 03, 2011 8:59 am
ive got su8 latest and sp 3.2 installed
when I try to inspect joints i get the usual info for a hinge (say). when I try to input say accel or a controller name , it accepts them but doesnt do anything - no slider in the run panel
Ive tried the other tip of clicking on the UI button to exit the UI window to no avail
I saw a tuorial where it said that you can turn a hinge into a reversible motor by putting accel = 1 and giving the controller a name - which is then supposed to bring up a slider in the run panel - i just get a blank.
then i go back and look again and just get blank boxes. only restarting su8 will clear the prob but it comes back if I try to change a parameter
cheers Robin
ps I havent got so excited since I first used SU4 - this could be a wonderful educational tool if physical values could be added to demonstrate newtons laws for example
I made a double pendulum the other day, but as already said, there's lots of real world physical attributes to be addressed (eg mass, density, friction, elasticity etc) but its early days
Hi TT
sorry pardon, it is indeed related to sketchyphysics rc2 and I thought I had posted in that forum, pls relocate my query
thanx
ive got su8 latest and sp rc2 installed
when I try to inspect joints i get the usual info for a hinge (say). when I try to input say accel or a controller name , it accpts them but doesnt do anything - no slider in the run panel
then i go back and look again and just get blank boxes. only restarting su8 will clear the prob but it comes back if I try to change a parameter
Hi all
some years ago SU5 days, I came across a problem requiring the intersection on a circle with a line of fixed length (not a tangent). This proved impossible in SU because as we know a circle is a collection of segments. I was able to do the simple math (on Xcel) and input the 10 digit decimal of the coordinates on the 2D surface. Clearly a very cumbersom procedure but it worked. At the time Ruby came out but I didnt have the time to devote to learning it sufficiently. I guess now there are thousands of you smart guys out there who could whistle up a little plug in to do this seemingly mundane task.
I did go on further to do the math for the 3D space which produced all three coordinates for the exact point. As we all know you have to be exact or your plane wont fill and its downhill all the way after that.
I could replicate the math in pseudo code - simple enough to understand if you knew excel notation and only comes out at about 10 lines of simple algebra
Would any kind soul be interested in collaborating on this as the use of this tool is not at all trivial.
Cheers RobinT
Cheers robin