Multiple Offsets ( ): This plugin accomplishes the similar functionality found in AutoCAD’s offset but in 3D.
You have to download the Free Library extension supplied by the same developer before that.Ģ.
Get help from the user manual furnished by the developer for more details. Among these options, one is extruding multiple surfaces in parallel. Joint Push/Pull ( ): It is a plugin that offers different options for extrusion of surfaces. If you restart SketchUp, the shortcut toolbar or icon of the installed extension will come into view.ġ. The extension will be visible in your list of extensions. Now, select the extension file with the ‘rbz’ extension from the download folder. Then, click on “Install Extensions” located at the bottom left of the Extension Manager Window. Alternatively, one can open “Extension Manager” from “Window” drop menu. Initially, click on “Extension Manager” the red coloured gem icon located on the far right of the toolbar. Given below, an extensive lists of free sketchup plugins which will allow you to produce some creative designs quickly and efficiently. Just provide the data, and the plugins will do rest automatically.
The sketchup plugins will facilitate you to get rid of redundant tasks like extruding (push/pull) several surfaces or generating offsets and multiple copies etc. You've done the difficult geometry/transformation stuff etc - it just needs a little tidying up so that it appears to do its stuff effortlessly in a twinkling of an eye, as if by magic.Sketchup plugins are useful to increase modelling speed, save huge time and get superior result. See my ComponentInstance-add_entities.rb for some ideas on how easy it is to do that. After bending etc you can re-group bits as outlined above - you could even make that group back into a new component instance (ins=group.to_component) and give it the same defname(made- unique >#2)/name/description/materials/layer etc as the original instance, so then it looks like you simply bent the instance and made it unique. Now you'll have a group of the geometry just as you do with your 'group-only' version. It's also quite easy to run it on a component-instance - simply make a group of the instance, later you'll explode it, you might also want to mine through the group's entities for any other groups or instances and explode them back to basics. Note that the newer versions of this tool do NOT now need 'progressbar.rb'.Īfter you bend the group's contents couldn't you re-group all of the bits and give this new group the same name/description/material/layer etc as the original ? That way it'd look like you "just moved and bent the original group". PLEASE GET THE LATEST VERSION AS AN RBZ FROM THE PLUGINSTORE NEW! Shape bender en Francais, thanks to c.plaissais (Christophe). I need to remake it with the new features.Īlso, please check out my newest script Repeat Copy at.
Description: This script will bend an existing group to match a curved line or series of connected lines.