Great demo of another good plugin that can save someone a lot of time. Creating a library has always been time consuming and having a plugin that comes with several libraries is a big saver. Also, Justin I really like how you explain everything and try things that along the demo that you wonder about, (options-etc). Thank you as always for all that you do for us!
Thanks Larry - I think there are some interesting applications for this one, but I'm also just interested to see the feedback that people give - it's an interesting kind of underserved area of SketchUp :)
This has a lot of potensial! A: Really interested in angle-iron profiles and threaded rods in the library. B: shop-drawings of parts will be a great time-saver! C: bolt: this is currently my biggest issue With SKP! Can one use the bolt-tool to place bolts on non-steel-connections? Wood-wood, steel-wood, plastic and so on would be great! The old extension bolt maker made holes and was versitsble, so a mindsiht-studio-version is very, very attractive! Best as a stand-alone plugin. D: reporting: can one generate parts-lists With either SKPs native report or With mindsights plugin?
Nice review-- It appears the column placement points default to their centers? I would note that columns are generally dimensioned to their centers. I also like the option to reassign the snap insertion point. Path align point also very useful.
bolts need to be standardized so that you're not specifying nut or washer sizes. If you buy a 3/4" bolt, the head, nut and washers would be a standard size. I don't see any need or reason to have options that aren't reflective of real world bolts.
You are right. However, we wanted to give users the ability to create their own standard bolt assemblies since it is not practical for us to create bolt libraries for all worldwide bolt standards.
I do think I kind of agree with this - at least having some standard bolts in here to pick from would be good, though realistically it depends on the use case - if you're just visualizing it might not matter so much
if it doest do engineering analysis its ( the BIM )not really worth anything. The engineer is still going to have to replicate everything in their Finite element alalysis program or whatever they call it to sign off on the design. Most of the structue will need to be fireproofed ... so in a redering nobody will see it. If its for an axonemetric to show a client - nobody cares how accurate it is. So I dont really see the productivity gains. It has to be integrated with the engineering analysis now .. If AI was used as an in out to the engennering..Id say yes.
If DECAsteel could export the structure to the engineering analysis software, would that be useful? This type of feature is on our radar but we're curious how many are interested in this type of workflow?
I don't think engineering analysis was the primary target for this extension, i believe its main purpose it's to help the drawing process; I believe, just for reference, it aims not to Strauss, or Midas, but to Tekla, Parabuild, Advance Steel role
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Looks fantastic.
Right now it can be use for virtualization and the level of this plugin is good
Man, mindsight studio plugins are next level 👌
Great demo of another good plugin that can save someone a lot of time. Creating a library has always been time consuming and having a plugin that comes with several libraries is a big saver. Also, Justin I really like how you explain everything and try things that along the demo that you wonder about, (options-etc). Thank you as always for all that you do for us!
Thanks Larry - I think there are some interesting applications for this one, but I'm also just interested to see the feedback that people give - it's an interesting kind of underserved area of SketchUp :)
This is pretty cool!
This has a lot of potensial! A: Really interested in angle-iron profiles and threaded rods in the library. B: shop-drawings of parts will be a great time-saver! C: bolt: this is currently my biggest issue With SKP! Can one use the bolt-tool to place bolts on non-steel-connections? Wood-wood, steel-wood, plastic and so on would be great! The old extension bolt maker made holes and was versitsble, so a mindsiht-studio-version is very, very attractive! Best as a stand-alone plugin. D: reporting: can one generate parts-lists With either SKPs native report or With mindsights plugin?
Nice review-- It appears the column placement points default to their centers? I would note that columns are generally dimensioned to their centers. I also like the option to reassign the snap insertion point. Path align point also very useful.
Correct - it was placing based on centers
bolts need to be standardized so that you're not specifying nut or washer sizes. If you buy a 3/4" bolt, the head, nut and washers would be a standard size. I don't see any need or reason to have options that aren't reflective of real world bolts.
You are right. However, we wanted to give users the ability to create their own standard bolt assemblies since it is not practical for us to create bolt libraries for all worldwide bolt standards.
I do think I kind of agree with this - at least having some standard bolts in here to pick from would be good, though realistically it depends on the use case - if you're just visualizing it might not matter so much
if it doest do engineering analysis its ( the BIM )not really worth anything. The engineer is still going to have to replicate everything in their Finite element alalysis program or whatever they call it to sign off on the design. Most of the structue will need to be fireproofed ... so in a redering nobody will see it. If its for an axonemetric to show a client - nobody cares how accurate it is. So I dont really see the productivity gains. It has to be integrated with the engineering analysis now .. If AI was used as an in out to the engennering..Id say yes.
If DECAsteel could export the structure to the engineering analysis software, would that be useful? This type of feature is on our radar but we're curious how many are interested in this type of workflow?
I don't think engineering analysis was the primary target for this extension, i believe its main purpose it's to help the drawing process; I believe, just for reference, it aims not to Strauss, or Midas, but to Tekla, Parabuild, Advance Steel role