Your suggestions are entirely accurate, and I am fully aware of them. I also wish to improve upon these aspects. However, my main occupation is still as an architect, and alongside that, I have a passion for developing extensions for SketchUp. These extensions not only support my current work but also help my fellow architects in the industry. I aim to turn them into commercial products, and I’m fortunate that some of them have been well-received and used by people like you.
The videos I post are made in a short amount of time within my limited schedule and are more intended as teaser introductions rather than detailed user guides. Although I would like to create a thorough and easy-to-understand tutorial video.
I will try to improve this when the pressure to develop and update features for 5D+ Plus lessens. The truth is, 5D+ is just me alone—a one-man band.
Hello, the beta version of the upcoming release (like the video) is now ready for testing. If you are already a customer and want to join, please let me now.
You can now download it from your orders on Lemon Squeezy.
What’s new?
Added a new feature, “Selector,” with extensive customization options, replacing the “Auto Select” function.
Added a new toolbar icon and context menu (right-click) for the “Selector.”
Added the function to copy grids and labels to other scenes via the context menu.
Added the function to update selected labels or all labels via the context menu.
Added the ability to use 5D+ Plus in a standard scene created by the user (with standard views).
Added the option to choose units and precision when creating grid levels.
Grids are now only drawn within the View bounds.
Spanish language support added.
License key is now hidden in the License dialog.
Fixed bugs.
This is already in this release.
Now you can custom what tags will be match to IFC Classes in an Excel file inside the folder of plugin. If you need more details instructions, please let me know.
Thank you so much! You are doing absolutely amazing job!
I have to say 5D+ is one of the plugins every Sketchup architect should be using. It simplifies and sppeds up work so much. And with latests release almost everything can be customized to our own workflow.
The only thing left on my feature request list is the ability to create our own named scenes so we would be able to define exactly which tags are ON/OFF based on the name of the scene we created. Like the example below:
This is the the moment where I have to stop everything and finally implement your workflow!
Great stuff!
That would be awesome!
It would be also great that, somehow, autonaming for every element that is created by the plugin could also be customizable as well as @curic4su sections, tags and materials.
The more customizeable and intertwined the two plugins are, the better. I’d love to have every object, tag, and scene name to adhere to our own standards, as they have been used by us for years, adapting our workflow around them, and its very hard to change them now.
In the Auto Level Options I have the following requests:
It would be helpful if we could customize the Level Prefix - FFL always pops up as FFL even if we have changed it for another prefix. If the customization isn’t easy to do, then Auto Level options should be able to remember the last thing we have inputed. Note that every other box input is being remembered the next time we use Auto Level.
It would be very useful to have a refresh button for all scenes, when some information on AutoLevels changes. Now, when this happens, we have to cycle every scene, hit the button one by one and verify every parameter like offset and prefix. The idea should be that all parameters would be kept and only the height values would change, as they are set globaly on the main plugin dialog.
Auto Level should honor the options for Dimensions that we have configured in Sketchup Model Info. Auto level respects the font type and size, but it doesn’t respect the placement of the text. In the following image you can see that the dimension’s should be centered aligned with the dimension line, as that is how we have set them in Model Info, however, the plugin creates dimensions that are aligned above the dimension line (there are two dimensions in the background created by 5D+, the left one has been manually configured to look as we want it to, but the right one is how it is created by default and we cannot create it differently with 5D+):
Using Auto Level or Auto Grid, automatically changes the Units decimal places of our model. That shouldn’t happen. If we are working with 3 decimal places we should be able to keep working like that but in order to do it, we are always having to manually reverse our Units to the value we need.
Hello,
I’m not sure if you are using the latest version 2024.09.15
The Auto Level has options for Unit and it remember the last used “Level prefix”, too.
All parameters in my plugin are designed to remember the last selected option from user.
It would be cool if the auto naming would also auto number objects.
Example: Autonaming windows would allow us to name all windows to Window 1, Window 2, Window 3 and so on.
This should be customizable as I’d like my windows to be called Janela 1 and Janela 2, which is the portuguese name for window.
Also, on components we have two names:
Instance - Wich is related to the object type. We might have a single type of window with several instances. Window Type 1 might have 30 instances in a building.
Name - Which is related to the specific instance name. So, all 30 windows for window type 1 are allowed to have different names, like W1, W2, W3.
Numbering of Windows can be done:
In Sequence disregarding other order: W1, W2, W3, W4, etc.
In Sequence by Type: W1.1, W1.2, W1.3, W2.1, W2.2, W2.3… which would mean Window 1 of type 1.
In Sequence by Floor: W1.1, W1.2, W1.3, W2.1, W2.2, W2.3… which would mean Window 1 from floor 1.
In sequence by Building: where each count is made by building on drawings that have more that one building or building wings.
In sequence by optionally combining building, floor and type.
So, in short, I would like to be able to customize object naming, have auto count of objects and also be able to separate the objects into types or by building and floor
It would be great to have a conversion list for materials to use in material label.
Currently material label uses the name of the Sketchup material.
However Sketchup material names are big and random sometimes so, to use your plugin, we have to change material names to something simple. I. e. “Concrete 05 2K” needs to become “M12” because it’s material 12 in the material’s list, or “C02” as we have two kinds of concrete in the project.
If we would have the conversion list, we’d know that the Sketchup materials in the project would be labeled using the conversion form:
M1 - Concrete
M2 - Wood
M3 - Stucco
M4 - Tiles
Ideally this list should be separated by wall, floor and ceiling materials, should have a small icon with material preview, the material code, and a description of the material that is created by the user. A mockup:
Thank you for all detailed responses, I’m appreciate that. Currently I have a bit busy so I’ll be back in the next week to discuss more about your suggestions. Thank you very much.
Hello! I bought your package, but it turned out to be very difficult to understand. Unfortunately, small video previews do not fully reveal all the features, that is, all the presets of the model are not shown and not disclosed so that the section and dimensions are shown automatically for me. I have a small request to make a detailed case from the very beginning to the end - because time is a very precious product, and it is very inconvenient to sit and understand the correspondence who and how solves their problems. One video from Justin Geis inspired me to click on a link to your site, because he described all the possibilities in great detail, but it seems to me that even he is not able to make a video about 5D+Plus))) So please make a detailed video
Thank you for your purchase. I’m trying to make more detail video. If you want to quickly close the gap of time to understand how it works, I can made a presentation in person via Google Meeting. Please pm me via Google Chat at id cyentruk@gmail.com
Well I plan to, but I just haven’t been able to sit down and figure out the nuances yet. I may do a sit down with @Cyentruk at some point, but have just been absolutely buried so it keeps getting moved down my priority list.
I seem to remember there was some documentation on it somewhere, but I don’t remember where exactly
Hello Justin, the documentation can be opened by clicking User Manual button in Settings. But it is a very very long page with full describes about all the buttons and their functions.
I’d like to be able to set some section planes to be elevations. The difference from these sections to real sections would be that these would be ignored when creating section lines on plans.
Also, I’d like to be able to create sections and elevations that are not parallel to sketchup axis. I want to create elevations and sections for buildings that have been set diagonally to main axis.
For this kind of sections and elevations, we should think about how to present the axis grid.
Finally, I would like to have floors that feature multiple levels. Like the first floor of a very long building might spread in several different heights, therefore that might also happen for the second floor.
You just simply create a normal scene with section that you want. From the latest version, you can create Grid and label from a normal scene.
Or you can “duplicate” a 5D+ Plus plan scene which has been created by press “Plus” circle and choose not using the same section plane. The you can move the section plane from the new scene to the position as you wish.
Currently, I can’t still not calculate the bounding box from directions are not parallel which SketchUp axis. These bounding boxes are used to determine which virtual face that labels and grids can be placed on.
You just need to add the level into the building information.
