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  • A Offline
    Al Hart
    last edited by 19 Aug 2010, 16:21

    The new version of SpaceDesign has been released.

    • Report on Dynamic Component Attributes
    • Add and edit your own attributes
    • Report, including SketchUp image, saved as a PDF file

    Go to Downloads to try it out.

    Go to SpaceDesign for more information on how to use it

    Attribute Editing

    http://wiki.renderplus.com/images/thumb/9/99/Edit_attributes.jpg/500px-Edit_attributes.jpg

    Sample Report

    http://wiki.renderplus.com/images/thumb/3/30/Sample_report.jpg/500px-Sample_report.jpg

    Try it out and let us know what you think.

    Al Hart

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      dedmin
      last edited by 21 Aug 2010, 07:51

      Seems like beta - no nested components report, slow, only inches, no way to save report template for later use and as usual for it the Cyrillic doesn't exist. So much data and still no way to use it in production - putty!

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        Al Hart
        last edited by 21 Aug 2010, 18:52

        @dedmin said:

        Seems like beta - no nested components report, slow, only inches, no way to save report template for later use and as usual for it the Cyrillic doesn't exist. So much data and still no way to use it in production - putty!

        Thanks for taking the time to try it out and for your comments.

        We were concentrating on Cost and Extended cost so much, that we forgot to test length variables. I will add another data type "Database", which will be like "Numeric", but will display in model units.

        Also, We forgot to complete the Load and Save on the Attribute Setup dialog. We will do this and get a new version out.

        I suspect that Cyrillic characters will not work, but we will test them if we can find a way to input some.

        Nested components are more problematic. Let me try to think of a good way to handle them.

        Al Hart

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          EarthMover
          last edited by 22 Aug 2010, 19:02

          Al, I've been trying to download the demo, but the page containing the .zip file is down.

          I'm curious, since I do a lot landscape design, would I be able to assign monetary values to my faceme plant components and have the program issue a report with the total cost and quantities of all the plants in my model? Also, can I add a square footage cost for surface area assigned with certain materials? Will it remember the values across sessions?

          3D Artist at Clearstory 3D Imaging
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          Content Creator at Skapeup

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            Al Hart
            last edited by 22 Aug 2010, 21:14

            @dedmin said:

            no nested components report

            See the comment on the SpaceDesign forum:

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            Al Hart

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              Al Hart
              last edited by 22 Aug 2010, 21:26

              @earthmover said:

              Al, I've been trying to download the demo, but the page containing the .zip file is down.

              I'm curious, since I do a lot landscape design, would I be able to assign monetary values to my faceme plant components and have the program issue a report with the total cost and quantities of all the plants in my model? Also, can I add a square footage cost for surface area assigned with certain materials? Will it remember the values across sessions?

              Try the download again. Click reload on the downloads page if it does not show version JH18

              Costs

              You can add a cost attribute to each plant, and then re-save the plants into a new library. *By placing all your plants in model as components, setting an attribute for each plant, and then exporting the components into a library, the attributes will be saved in the library. If you have any trouble doing this, let us know.
              Area Calculations

              These are not working yet, but you will be able to use them adter I create a new version, and a tutorial on how to do this next week.

              The "trick" will be that you add a new attribute called "area", and add a "substitution" string to the attribute. Using "%a-wd%" as the substitution string, will cause the width times depth to be used to calculate the area attribute. %a-wd% will be replaced by the width and depth of the component - even if the user has stretched it - to calculate the area.

              Then add another attribute, e.g. "cost_per_sq_foot", and enter the values.

              Finally, add a third attribute - "extended_area_cost", and set its "calculation' string to "%area% x %cost_per_sq_foot% / 144" this will use the values of 'area' and 'cost_per_sq_foot' to calculate the variable "extended_area_cost".

              This is a lot of work, but might create a great report for you. Wait until I create the sample and new version next week. If you have any problems, we will help you out.

              Other Substitution codes

              * %w% is replaced by the width of the component,
              * %d% is replaced by the depth of the component,
              * %h% is replaced by the height of the component
              * %l% is replaced by the longest of width, depth and height. (Useful for long components - like pipe.)
              * %z% is replaced by the minimum z-height of the component
              * %v% is replace by the product of width, depth and height (volume)
              * a-wd - area - width * depth
              * a-wh - area - width * height
              * a-dh - area - depth * height
              * %name% is replaced by the name of the instance or component
              

              Al Hart

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              IRender nXt from Render Plus

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                thomthom
                last edited by 23 Aug 2010, 23:32

                @al hart said:

                I suspect that Cyrillic characters will not work, but we will test them if we can find a way to input some.

                Looks to be that the webdialog's HTML isn't marked with an UTF-8 character encoding meta tag.

                Thomas Thomassen β€” SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
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                • A Offline
                  Al Hart
                  last edited by 24 Aug 2010, 01:33

                  @thomthom said:

                  @al hart said:

                  I suspect that Cyrillic characters will not work, but we will test them if we can find a way to input some.

                  Looks to be that the webdialog's HTML isn't marked with an UTF-8 character encoding meta tag.

                  Maybe someone can upload a small .SKP with a Cyrillic named Component, and we can try it out. Setting the Component Description to Cyrillic characters will also help in debugging.

                  We use Windows dialogs from a DLL, but they are not compiled in Unicode. We can handle some languages - but probably not all.

                  Al Hart

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                    gavvy
                    last edited by 24 Aug 2010, 02:25

                    @al hart said:

                    @thomthom said:

                    @al hart said:

                    I suspect that Cyrillic characters will not work, but we will test them if we can find a way to input some.

                    Looks to be that the webdialog's HTML isn't marked with an UTF-8 character encoding meta tag.

                    Maybe someone can upload a small .SKP with a Cyrillic named Component, and we can try it out. Setting the Component Description to Cyrillic characters will also help in debugging.

                    We use Windows dialogs from a DLL, but they are not compiled in Unicode. We can handle some languages - but probably not all.

                    😲 😲 😲
                    i have try Chinese language .it not support. 😲

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                      dedmin
                      last edited by 24 Aug 2010, 14:30

                      @al hart said:

                      @thomthom said:

                      @al hart said:

                      I suspect that Cyrillic characters will not work, but we will test them if we can find a way to input some.

                      Looks to be that the webdialog's HTML isn't marked with an UTF-8 character encoding meta tag.

                      Maybe someone can upload a small .SKP with a Cyrillic named Component, and we can try it out. Setting the Component Description to Cyrillic characters will also help in debugging.

                      We use Windows dialogs from a DLL, but they are not compiled in Unicode. We can handle some languages - but probably not all.

                      Cyrillic.skp

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                        EarthMover
                        last edited by 24 Aug 2010, 14:48

                        Still no luck downloading the demo of this. Getting an error in both Firefox and Google Chrome. Any suggestions Al?


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                        • A Offline
                          Al Hart
                          last edited by 24 Aug 2010, 15:28

                          I'll have Rich send you a HTTP location, and we can see if that works better.

                          I plan to make a new version this PM, so lets wait for that.

                          Al

                          Al Hart

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                          • erkanE Offline
                            erkan
                            last edited by 25 Jul 2014, 18:39

                            Is there a plan to somehow pull the prices from an external DB or even an Excel file?

                            Maintaining the prices of components will be hell of a task to keep up with in some industries.

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                              Al Hart
                              last edited by 25 Jul 2014, 20:39

                              We have a way to load prices, or other attributes, from a CSV file and then load them into you components which are then saved on the warehouse or into a library

                              Al Hart

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                              • erkanE Offline
                                erkan
                                last edited by 8 Aug 2014, 18:12

                                Hi Al,
                                Thanks, very interesting. Now this plugin has my attention πŸ˜„
                                Is this way documented? Where can I get the specifics?

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                                  Al Hart
                                  last edited by 11 Aug 2014, 03:57

                                  @erkan said:

                                  Hi Al,
                                  Thanks, very interesting. Now this plugin has my attention πŸ˜„
                                  Is this way documented? Where can I get the specifics?

                                  There is a lot of documentation.

                                  Such as [anchor= goto=http://www.renderplus.com/wp2/wk/SpaceDesign_Attributes.htm:2svelgdb]Space Design Attributes[/anchor:2svelgdb]

                                  But you will still, probably, need our help to get this set up properly.

                                  Al Hart

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                                    ashscott
                                    last edited by 1 Jun 2015, 03:47

                                    Hey, the installer seems to detect SU2015 but when installation is complete I open SU and all I get is an option saying "SpaceDesign:Load". When I click this nothing happens. There is no option to turn on the Space Design toolbar and there seems to be no way to get SU2015 to recognize SpaceDesign using RBZ....

                                    On windows 7 with SU2015?

                                    Anyone else faced this/dealt with it?

                                    Just some stuff I do with Sketchup.

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                                      Al Hart
                                      last edited by 1 Jun 2015, 04:19

                                      Can you open the Ruby console before you click load and then copy and paste the contents in an email to suport@renderplus.com

                                      Thanks,

                                      Al

                                      Al Hart

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                                      IRender nXt from Render Plus

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                                      • ashscottA Offline
                                        ashscott
                                        last edited by 1 Jun 2015, 05:02

                                        *support@renderplus.com?

                                        Just some stuff I do with Sketchup.

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