@archtrot said:

TIG,
I'm looking for your cut/fill calculation tutorial. Links in the Google forum no longer work.

Thank you.

I'll have it somewhere at home... I'll post it a soon as I find it !

Here it is attached...

Cut+Fill.skp

VolumeCalculator v1.7 script now uploaded.

Options now include ability to choose the volume's layer, including making a new layer 'on the fly' if required, to hide/show the volume's face's edges, and to pick the volume's face colours from any standard colour or model material...

VolumeCalculator.rb

Here's v1.6.

It sorts out file/folder paths slightly differently, which might avoid the Mac crash. It also corrects the typo in a dialog reported by Didier...

ComponentReporter+.rb

@didier bur said:

Little typo line 189 "intances" for "instances".
Nice script as always :thup:

Didier

Thanks for those 'eagle-eyes' of yours.

Since the typo is only in the text in an error dialog that shouldn't appear much anyway I'll leave it until v1.6...

Here's v1.5

Areas now report in current units, NOT always sq in.
Note: if you always work in say mm but want areas in say sq m then edit the script around lines ~155-165 - there are guidance notes there on how to fix it easily...

ComponentReporter+.rb

Here's v1.4

Main Changes:
Report always located with Model.
Miner goes whole depth of nesting.
Commas in names etc trapped into ';'.
3rd report of 'parentage' added.
If any report is already open error now trapped.

ComponentReporter+.rb

Here's v1.3
Much as v1.2 but...

The error message if the report was already made and left open in Excel so it can't be written to with a new report is now disabled pending a proper implementation.

If the script fails it is likely the cause is this - close the report and re-run.

ComponentReporter+.rb

Here's v1.2

It now offers the opportunity to 'Mine' down through nested-groups/components - either all or in a selection - and then report on all component instances it finds.

ComponentReporter+.rb

Here's v1.1.

It now looks to see if there's a Selection containing at least one Component, if so then you are asked if you want to base the report on the Selection. If 'Yes' then the Instances report is limited to the Selection's Component Instances: if 'No' then a full report is made on all of the Model's Component Instances. In either case a report of all the Model's Components (Definitions) is made first.

ComponentReporter+.rb

I was asked to rehash my old script to make a bigger report. It now makes two csv's - one of the Component Definitions that have been used [def-name, number, description and guid] AND the other of the Instances that have been placed [def-name, inst-name, layer, material, area(of faces), ID and bounding-box's xyz]...

ComponentReporter+.rb

Having said, "Do it manually...", I'm now thinking that perhaps a sloping soffit (or even a sloping fascia) option isn't so difficult for some roof types and I might look at incorporating it in a future update... watch this space...

@utiler said:

Cheers Digby, I guess you could do that. Sure, a little extra work in re-creating soffits but it is certainly quicker that modelling from start.
I wouldn't think it is out of the question though, I think it would add quite a scope of tasks to the script....
Maybe also a gutter!!!
As for the vegemite-coated Roos; more of the beer-battered kind over here.....
Andrew

The proto-Roof.rb HAD a sloping soffit type... BUT I removed it because the maths hurt my head... There were also add-gutter, add-verge etc... but again I didn't have time to implement them...

As was said, it's pretty easy for you to make the roof higher up that you want with a flat soffit then move it down to suit, THEN edit the roof group and select the inner rim of the soffit and move that up, with auto-fold the soffit will crease and become raking as you want.

To add a gutter etc you just need to draw the vertical cross-section of the desired gutter against a corner of the fascia, and then select the edges of the roof you want to have the gutter, then pick follow-me and then the cross-section's face and you'll have the gutter you want...

If you use particular gutter sections you could save a suitably shaped vertical face as a component, then when needed you simply insert it where you want, explode it and use its face for the follow-me as above...

Thanks for all of your thanks...

So far so good... no bugs reported with v2.1 yet...

Please continue to feed back: any suggestions for practicable enhancements etc are welcome...

Here's v2.1 of Roof.rb.

The two fixes are:

1. A glitch with some fascia materials being set incorrectly on some combinations of gable roof verge types (only I noticed it so far !).

2. The pyramid roof making has been made more 'efficient'. This might also fix a reported 'inside-out' faces glitch (although that hasn't been reproducible yet).

As before, download Roof.rb and replace the current one in the Plugins folder. IF you haven't had it before the zip file contains the script (Roof.rb) and the v2 help .mht file: if you already have this help file it's not changed in this update...

Feed back please...[mod=:1fpxar2q]Install this much newer version http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=17156#p17156[/mod:1fpxar2q]

Roof-v2-1.zip

Roof.rb

@daarboven said:

This tool is simply great, a real timesaver.
Minor error in v2: the faces of the pyramid roof are "inside out" so you have to select all and tick "reverse faces".

Can you elaborate on the pyramid roof 'inside-out' problem... I can't get it to do that, no matter want rotation of the picked points or if c/clockwise picking etc... Inside is 'blue' ?

This is version 2.0 of Roof.rb.

The attached zip contains the .rb script and the .mht help file. Both should go into the Plugins folder and older ones should be removed.

There is also a separate pdf version of the help for some of you having problems getting the mht to open via the menu item. Open the pdf 'manually'.

The main changes in v2 are that dialog defs have been reworked in an attempt to suit Mac users. Also the way the Gable tool works has changed: you now run the tool and then pick three points - 1 for the 1st corner of the First-Gable, 2 for the 2nd corner of the First-Gable and 3 for the Line of the Second-Gable. The Pyramid Roof tool is also similar to the gable - pick two points to define the edge from which the slope (if any) will be taken and the third one to set the other side of the pyramid's base.

Try, and feedback please...[mod=:5j4rs6ta]Install this much newer version http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=17156#p17156[/mod:5j4rs6ta]

Roof-v2-0.zip

RoofHelp.pdf

@aceshigh said:

Didier, seeing you are from France, I have two questions:

1- you did make the feet/inches version before the metric one????

2 - the house builder tool is mostly useful to these wood-frame houses which are most common in US/Canada. In France most houses use bricks, don't they?

The House Builder tool set was developed a couple of years ago by Steve Hurlbut in the US - it was in '&", BUT Didier metricated it more recently... It meant changing all of the timber sizes, dialogs and so on so it took a while.

@sorgesu said:

but there is space all around the doorway. Why is there no face in that space?
I thought the script fills in a face everywhere

The script attempts to work out what is solid and what is void, so it doesn't (usually) fill in every available gap. To see this draw a rectangle and offset it and pushpull it into a 'wall', reface the top and pushpull to make a quick floor and a roof; then draw a rectangle onto a wall face and pushpull it through the wall to make an opening. Now make a section cut across the wall passing through the window 'hole'. Use SectionCutFace on it and you'll get a filled-in section as you expect. But if you put a face or faces into the window as a 'pane' it can get confused as to which is solid and which is void in the cut. Usually if fills them all and you can then edit the section face group and select and delete unwanted faces, or redraw edges to (re)face something that's missed... Overlapping solids can confuse it as there's no simple rules to work out what's desired to be solid - typically the outer areas get filled, then any inner islands are emptied, then any nested islands filled etc (like CAD hatching ?)...

It's not foolproof...you should be able to make quick manual fixes to complex sections that get confused.

@sorgesu said:

I took a look see and I have a couple of problems with the script.
The colours list stops at the bottom of the page ending with the "L" colours and there is no way to scroll down to choose anything else. If I wanted a "White" face colour I could type "W" in the face colour field but then I would have to settle for "Wheat" because that is the first "W" and I can't get at the rest. The Cut face colour actually allows for the "Default" colour but the cut edge colour does not.

Press W to drop to Wheat then use the down arrow key to get to White...

SectionCutFace.rb v2.0: update fixes an occasional visibility glitch with the cut-face's location relative to the section-plane, and layers are now sorted below the layers 'CUT-nnnn' and 'Layer0' (or the default layer-name if not EN).
There is a new version available here http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?p=172583#p172583
please use that instead of the obsolete one below
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SectionCutFace.rb