its very important tools and its look great ...
i have tried to download the alpha but the lang was very hard to understand
please make sure it will come out in english too ...

keep us informed

jaff, i you right about the way you wrote, the meening of all this treade is not just making
almost the same shapes, as an architect we want to the design accurate for later building
in the real life and not just for the show.

jaff i think the way you present for doing that is the best way, i tried to do the V shape
but i dont realy understands the prosess of the drawing the v shapes.

i dont have screen shot it only an idea i thought of ..
and yes its should deformed on each paneling

im looking for a tool that can work a little bit like rhino ..
a tool that can take one group and put it on a curved grid on face ..
because the grid will be curved the group should rechange in each space and together
they all will create 3d face ...
it will help to make architecture facade?
any plugin ?

perfect ... you'r the champion.
thank you

im looking for explode tool, not plugin that work as a command on the ruby cons'.
i chacked the plugins list but all of the are rubys. (less than 3kb)
the purpse is to asign shortkey to the command, some how the build in explode tool
couldnt find in the short keys list ...

@unknownuser said:

@yitzhar said:

p.s. about the last rhino issue ... i knew i can make it easier in rhino
but im trying to chack sketchup limition

it's not that you can't draw this in sketchup (i mean, i've driven a nail with pliers before.. plenty of times )

it's just that it's a fairly convoluted process to do it in sketchup and once you've drawn something, you're stuck with it.. and it's a whole lot of work to start over with this type of process until you get the proportions etc correct..

in all reality, my sketchup approach would go something like this:

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1)- draw the main profile curves with a whole bunch of segments per curve (the vertical profiles have 500 segments in this example) (i'm using fredo's BezierSpline plugin for these curves).. group the curves..

2)- array a plane to represent the floors... using the line tool, custom draw new profiles.. the vertices will occur at the intersection of each floor plane and the mega-segmented curves.. using BZ-convert to, change the top and bottom curves to the same amount of evenly spaced segments (i used 10 in this case)..

3)- while this looks pretty much the same as step #1, it's not.. the profile curves are now set up to make a proper grid on this shape..

4)- using CurviLoft's skinning function, set it to generate edges only... you now have a nice grid to place your panel profiles over..

5)- (next image) -- use profile builder to manually populate the grid.. only 30+ more floors to go then mirror it

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great way!

this is something in progress ...
the tall building isnt the same as i wanted to saw at dubai's picture
but all in all this is the sample of the mixed plugin i used.

p.s. about the last rhino issue ... i knew i can make it easier in rhino
but im trying to chack sketchup limition

thank you , i dont know how i forget this command

im look for a tool that will change the axes position ...
something like autocad UCS tool - changing for manual position and return back to
0,0,0 when i say...

is there any plugin that can make that ?

the lss tools is great tool - i used it mixing it with the edges to rails -
the lss for making the floors and the panes and than i took the edges to rails plugin
to make the grid with glass on the curve faces.
and did it twice one from the bottom up and one from up to the bottom that way you getting
X SHAPES for the grid and not \ DIRECTION ...

jaff so whats your way for modeling that ?

i find out that the easy way was -

draw the edges curves and than use this Extrude Edges by rail to lattice by Tig
but this is if you only work with face and not circuls ..

the problem is with the lines and not with the curve shape...
i know how to make the twist but not the constr' lines that you showed in your file.
its look like trinangle shapes on the faces and on your file its look like 2 trin' on same shape

wow - good job !!!
the problem solved with the new tt_lib2 ...
thank you very much.

YES, this is exactly what i ment (to directions for the line)
please can you give little more details on how excactly you did it ?
thank you

That would be posible in 5 hours from now when i finish working at the office
but thank you i got the test and i would write you later on.

the massage is the one i wrote in the page i copy paste it in the error question.
the tt_lib2 is the latest i think its 2.6

i have tried lattice by tig its little bit hard to under stand and to get that shapes ...
i need to have the shape as it shown on the pictures under the glass ... the metals ?
someone can give me and other tutorial please?
thank you

I didnt change the script at all, and i have full admin access to everything...
and didnt understand what you ment in the screen shot ? what do you need ?