Slicer

[TIG]

Moved from the 'Roof' thread...

Excellent Script. Many thanks -- works a treat for me!!!
I must commend you also on another of your scripts that I find invaluable at work. It's your slicer ruby. It comes in very handy for working out the floor space across very large master-plan massing models. It has saved me so much time. Thank you. I'm not sure it was ever intended for this, but if you set the floor to ceiling height say 3 metres, but don't give the slices any thickness, then run the script across a large grouped area of buildings then explode the floor slabs within the main group, by using the area tool with all faces within that group selected you get a total floor space for that whole area. You may have to delete the top slices so that you don't include the roofs. But very, very handy indeed...
Whilst using your most recent roof script I was impressed in the way that you could assign a material and a layer to the new roof.
I have a request. (Not that your not busy enough as it is)
Is it possible to implement this within in the slicer ruby? So that the when you create the new slices you have an option of also assigning a material to the new slices. In this way you could have separate materials for residential, commercial and retail space. This information regarding the areas assigned to the materials could be then exported to an excel sheet. Giving you a detailed breakdown very quickly regarding your model.
Matt

A few months ago we started using Slicer.rb for exactly the same thing - to get a rough idea of the floor-space in massing blocks on master-plans [although its original use was for making 3D card models from a Sketchup volume - cheap 3D-printer !]
Not so long ago I added a make your own layer and pick materials on the fly option to VolumeCalculator.rb. Since this a son (or perhaps grandson ?) of Slicer it'll be pretty easy to implement (I hope)... I'll add it to the list of things to do.

Watch this space...

[matt77]

Thank you very much.

I'll keep an eye out for any developments.

Many thanks

Matt

[TIG]

Here is v3.0 of Slicer.rb.

You can now choose / make its Layer on the fly and select any 'Colour'...

Enjoy...

sas/Ruby/Slicer.rb

[Juju]

I get this error message with Slicer.rb (version 3.0), see image attached.

[TIG]

I get this error message with Slicer.rb (version 3.0), see image attached.

slicer error.JPG

I apologise. I uploaded a version that's customized to my menu setup by mistake ! Of the 40 or so who've viewed it so far you are the only one to point it out... Here's v3.1 that's fixed to suit all.

sas/Ruby/Slicer31.rb

[seasdes]

Thank you TIG for another useful script

Walter

[not registered yet]

Thanks so much for the new version - works great! I'm using it similarly to the original purpose TIG mentioned, as a cheap 3D printer. Now to create a (cheap) automated way to cut them out!

best,

Matt

[mattratto]

[mariocha]

Very impressive !
And so usefull .
Thanks a million !

The final touch, for the cutting machine (cnc), would be numbers as lines so it can engrave them on the piece.
Oh and also the possibility to add a letter before the number, like A1, A2, .. B1, B2 ...

Great plugin. !

[TIG]

Very impressive !
And so usefull .
Thanks a million !

The final touch, for the cutting machine (cnc), would be numbers as lines so it can engrave them on the piece.
Oh and also the possibility to add a letter before the number, like A1, A2, .. B1, B2 ...

Great plugin. !

I have a [privately written and hopefully paid for] 'Slicer v4' that has such lines added etc for CNC work - watch this space.

Here is a script that will add a prefix for you...

prefixtext.rb

Adds a Prefix to selected text or text inside selected group/instance-definitions
To use - select the objects needing prefixes [text OR groups containing text etc]
then in the Ruby Console type prefixtext + <enter>.
A dialog asks for the Prefix Text - enter it and OK - e.g. A.
All text in the selection is prefixed with the desired prefix e.g. 9 becomes A9 etc...
It is for use after running tools like Slicer
- where sub-sets of slices might be more useful if they are differently coded.
Errors will stop you if there is no selection or you enter a blank 'prefix'.
It is one step un-doable.

[mariocha]

Thanks for the prefix.rb
Thought I find it difficult to integrate to the process since each text is a group, in a group.
For now, I use component numbers made of lines.

Hum... that v4, is it close to release ?
Need some testing ?

I do think it is worth some money.

[TIG]

The prefixtext ruby should 'mine down' into any groups selected and add to all text. It undoes in one step anyway...

[kwalkerman]

Hi,

I'm interested in using the slicer plugin. I'm using the trial version of Sketchup Pro 7.1, and have downloaded Slicer31.rb. Whenever I try to use the plugin, Sketchup crashes. Any help is appreciated.

Thanks!

Karen

[xrok1]

I have a [privately written and hopefully paid for] 'Slicer v4' that has such lines added etc for CNC work - watch this space.

hey, are you finally going to make your own and bust that slicemodeler @&&hole

[TIG]

Hi,
I'm interested in using the slicer plugin. I'm using the trial version of Sketchup Pro 7.1, and have downloaded Slicer31.rb. Whenever I try to use the plugin, Sketchup crashes. Any help is appreciated.
Thanks!
Karen

First try testing it on a simple group and make a modest number of slices - say 10...
When you get the hang of what it does you can then up the 'fineness' of the slicing... BUT be patient...
If you try to make hundreds of slices it will take a while and it sometimes 'whites-out' and appears to stall... BUT it will usually complete if you leave it for a while...

[TIG]

I have a [privately written and hopefully paid for] 'Slicer v4' that has such lines added etc for CNC work - watch this space.

hey, are you finally going to make your own and bust that slicemodeler @&&hole

I have written a paid commercial version [private] - Slicer_v4 - for someone for CNC use etc... it [or some of its ideas] might leak out to you too...