Hi All - 2 x Extensions MagicMesh and VisiShadow– probably like many of you i Love Soap and Bubble - great plugin but i always find it a little bit finnicky about the boundaries and sometime a little bit unpredictable with the way it operates - it sometime just hangs or the text gets left on the screen. Anyway i thought i’d create a new plugin that tries to allow a user to create a boundary and fill it with a mesh. This plugin called MagicMesh allows a user to Firstly check if a mesh needs fixing first - i’ve created a Path Edit tool which (included with this extension) simplifies removing orphan lines or complete incomplete boundaries . Then once you have a boundary you can set the boundary (so you don’t have to keep selecting that boundary). There are a number of controls to create the mesh - you can set whether it is a dome or bowl, how steep the dome or bowl is and mesh complexity, z point for drawing.
VisiShadow. This extension is for a specific use case for me where i would need to do Shadow Reports for council submissions (in Australia) firstly to get percentages and compliance with councils need for 3 hours of sunshone of 50% or more on private open space which often required manual tracing of shadows on surfaces (Ugghhh) but sometimes the shadows created were underneath the building and therefore i was unable to show the area with shadows across the surface. This tool allows rectangles and polygons to be drawn on flat or terrained surfaces. These hot areas can then have sun shadow simulations run and the shadows are rendered to geometry which allows the buildings to be hidden and the shadow images to be shown. The plugin also provide a summary of percenatges and hours of compliant sunlight. This can also be exported into CSV format. Multiple areas, multiple times of the year and various resiltuion of time can be perfomed - it also creates temporary Group Tags so the geometry can be shown in Layout. I think the areas persist across files which means so long as the extension is present you can load the file up with the VisiShadow areas active. Email me directly for info on these extensions visit site for more.
snester @viewbuild.com
it’s not in the EW, and I can’t find it on the page.
