FreeMind-SCF Thread (open source project) helps me a lot with storing some useful information.

FreeMind-SCF Thread (open source project) helps me a lot with storing some useful information.

FreeMind (open source project) helps me a lot with storing some useful information.
Below I have shown an exaple of a AutoCAD related mindmap.
At work I have a map of all projects I am involved in, with all project folders, links to certain files (floorplans, elevations, SU models of course ). All data can be clearly and hierarchically organized!

It is really handy when you have to jump from one project to another.

Here is a link to a download page.
I am using 0.9 beta20 and strongly recommend downloading this version or higher if available.

I can share Autocad map if anyone interested.
Take care
Tomasz

To help, those interested, to understand what in my opinion Love is I post following short film.
I have found it among several videos on TED Karren's Armstrong blog.
This beautiful video has won first prize at Tropfest NY. Directed by Jason van Genderen, it was shot entirely on a cell phone with a budget of $57.

“Mankind is No Island”

Love is the power in your heart which tells you to do good, to help, to act with empathy.

@cadfather said:

would the castray method work on a png?

No it doesn't work. You can try it with FrontFace script. I won't reverse a face behind alpha textured face, even if the texture is at the position of a cursor transparent.

New item on a Ruby API wish list?

Tomasz

Thanks a lot, Andriy!
I am sure many of us will find them very useful.

Tomasz

Guzman,

Vey nice idea. Have you introduced SU at match lesson?
Such a task at IT lesson would be easier to justify .

I love those cars. So much diversity among them

Tomasz

I think they have put all effort into dynamic components. I believe we can squeeze a lot from them.

@princedragoncok said:

Layout looks better but I need to evaluate it more for the moment..

Yep. It lets you edit a layout while updates the SU view.. maybe it uses a second core then!

@princedragoncok said:

some magic button I missed

I am afraid you won't find one.
Interesting can be an interact tool and what we can do with parametric components.

Make texture unique works as Whaat's explode photomatched texture from his Indigo exporter.
I am glad to see SU7 finally.

A Ruby method that will give us a real UVW coordinates of a projected texture, so exporters could use a single, original texture, instead of say 200 small textures of a photo mapped terrain.

An important wish for ALL exporters, I believe:

• a method to read a cropped region in 2point perspective view.
  As far as I am aware, currently there is no way to read it!

Please!

@jim said:

The controls example does work for me under XP. But it also does crash frequently.

Jim, you probably have Ruby installed, have you? I don't have. Will see if it helps.

I hope this solution will be developed, as I hate playing with HTML and JavaS (I have already tied and have some 'success'). I would love to use Wx without bugsplats.

Tomasz

Thanks for all help. It is rather an academic dilemma for me. I wanted to be sure it is valid to put it on Ruby API wish-list.

From what you have all written there is no way to find out where an user is in a tree of transformations. Only if an user selects an instance, not a face inside a component, it is possible to find out all parents of an instance and - as a result, calculate global coordinates of a all vertices in a component. Am I right?

It would be very useful if SU could return an array of all parent entities as it can do when using ray-casting method - simply to provide current location within outliner tree.

@jim said:

I think Tomasz needs to get the instance of the face's container

Yep, that's it Jim.

I have found a possible workaround through ray-casting, but I think it is valid only in a new tool and won't work well with a basic selection. It would be also awkward to cast a ray few milimeters off the face in an opposite direction to a normal .. hoping to hit the face.. not an opening .

It would be extremely nice to have a Ruby method Sketchup.active_model.active_entity (not entities) which would return an active group or component instance.

@chrisglasier said:

But if they are imported some other way, is there some nifty way to refer to them?

I guess there has to be an observer which checks if an instance of a component is added.

@chrisglasier said:

I don't know much about observers. I guess they can "see" changes in xyz's, rotation and so on but can they also log logical relationships to other components. (design criteria type thing).

An observer will tell you that an object has been moved (transformed), but that is all. The AI has to be coded to react on such an event. It is the hardest thing, I think.

Tomasz

Hi,
Is there a way to find out a global transformation of a selected face?
When I try face.parent I get a component (group) definition.
Is there a way to get an instance inside which the face has been selected?

Thanks
Tomasz

It looks Chris, you will have hard time with getting a decent feedback here.
Only those with basic programming knowledge, good imagination and a little bit daft can help you. I hereby volunteer. I would like to test what you already have if possible. I am not a professional programmer, but my Ruby knowledge, still being developed, is probably sufficient.

Frankly speaking, based on what you have shown here and at your website, it is promising, but a regular SU user won't even know how to comment on it. I am also nearly lost in the complexity of possible connections, buy definitely would like to contribute somehow.

Tomasz

Chris,
It is very interesting what you have come up with.
Why have you chosen SU? For easy graphic presentation of actions?
From what I have already understood it is not just a new plug-in for SU, but literally new way of interlinking information. I am impressed how all those information is being displayed and how they are connected. It is definitely unique. Just from video it is hard to tell if it is really that simple.

It can greatly influence the way we design .. as you have described client, manufacturers, consultants could be involved in a design at very early stages.. interesting.

I see it could be a good tool for initial design stages when we, architects, need to figure out proper relationships between a site, client requirements and local development plans. Looking forward to seeing more info and testing.

Tomasz