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Architectural Design with SketchUp Cutlist and Layout By S. Racz—Free [http://steveracz.com/joomla/content/view/45/1] This excellent plugin is geared mainly toward woodworkers but may be useful to others as well. It takes a model that consists of parts (components such as individual wood pieces that make up a table) and produces materials lists as well as cut sheets (with layout optimization and efficiency reporting). The user can separate solid wood, sheet goods, and hardware simply by adding keywords to the components. DrawMetal By Draw Metal—Free [www.drawmetal.com] This website, geared toward metal fabricators, provides a set of three free SketchUp plugins (Curve Maker, Taper Maker, and Stock Maker) that allow you to create intricate bent metal shapes for railings and other projects. The Curve Maker tool makes it easy to create many beautiful spirals and curves such as the Archimedes spiral, a catenary, a helix, a golden spiral, and others. Flatten By T. Burch—$10 [4] This plugin allows you to flatten a group or a component by arranging all faces on the ground plane. Flattery Papercraft Tools By pumpkinpirate—Free [www.pumpkinpirate.info/flattery] This plugin lets you unfold objects similar to the Unfold plugin. It has interactive features such as adjusting the unfolded shape and adding glue tabs. Although not a SketchUp plugin but rather an external software, Pepakura Designer should be mentioned here, too, because it can take a SketchUp model exported as a COLLADA DAE file and unfold it. $38 [www.tamasoft.co.jp/pepakura-en] Glue Tab By rschenk—Free [https://github.com/rschenk/Sketchup-Glue-Tab-Plugin] This plugin makes for a great companion tool to the Unfold tool. It allows you to select edges in an unfolded model and then adds glue tabs to them. i.materialise By i.materialise—Free (+ printing costs) [http://i.materialise.com/support/plugins] 104 This plugin allows you to take a 3D model and preprocess it for 3D printing through the i.materialise website.
Chapter 4 Using Plugins Effectively Manifold By TIG—Free [5, 6] To be able to 3D-print an object in SketchUp (or use any of SketchUp’s Solid Tools), it is important that the object consist of manifold geometry. This means it cannot have gaps or disconnected geometry. This plugin tries to fix grouped geometry and gives you errors if it can’t do so. You can easily check whether SketchUp sees your group or component as a “watertight” manifold by looking for the volume entry in the Entity Info window. If there is no such entry, then you may have gaps in your object. TIP Outer Shell and Solid Tools By SketchUp—Included with software Technically, this is not a plugin, since all the tools are included in SketchUp. They do, however, need to be included in this list. Outer Shell takes several intersecting solids and deletes all interior geometry (creating a “watertight” manifold shape). It also produces clean intersections. You can use this tool (which is included in the free SketchUp version) to preprocess your geometry for 3D printing. The other Solid Tools (Intersect, Union, Subtract, Trim, and Split) are also very useful in modeling for fabrication; however, they are included only in the Pro version of SketchUp. Phlatscript By Phlatboyz—Free [www.phlatboyz.com, 9] This plugin allows you to preprocess geometry in SketchUp and export it to G-Code for CNC (Computer Numerically Controlled) milling. It was developed by the makers of the Phlatprinter for that machine, but the code might work with other CNC mills as well. Polyreducer By Whaat—Free [5, 6] Although the author claims that this plugin is not perfect, it is a good tool to have if you need to reduce face count in any polyface mesh. Slicer By TIG—Free [5, 6] When you have an object that encloses a volume (such as a blimp or a sculpture), then one manufacturing method is the egg-crate approach, whereby the object is sliced up into evenly spaced thin sheets in two main directions. You can then cut the 2D sheets and reassemble them into the “core” of the original shape by sliding each one into overlapping slots. This plugin allows you to egg-crate any geometry. Its options let you specify dimensions and spacing of the slices as well as other parameters. After the slicing operation, all slices can 105
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