The workshop will be held on Thurs 26th July from 10:00am – 4:00pm at National Sculpture Factory, Albert Road, Cork. Lisa Bafagih, a renowned architect and educator at St John’s College Cork, is conducting a workshop for sketchup users. To get more detail, go through the following video tutorial. Here, only the sections of components which are expected to resize like the door or the glass in the windows, will be only resized whereas the frames and other objects remain unchanged in sizes. The components can be resized devoid of any distortion.

It comprises of the responsive objects scale and modifies to openings automatically. One can download the plugin from /flextools.įlex tools is a series of opening creation tools developed on the basis of sketchup dynamic components engine. It is a paid extension and cost is US$33 for one component and US$114 for all components. This sketchup plugin is developed by FlexTools CC. The plugin allows the users to arrange the doors, windows, louvers and other objects inside openings in your sketchup models instantly and smoothly. One can produce various smart objects like doors, windows etc. Is there a “copy and make unique” plugin or fast hack out there? The obvious thing would be to use groups, as they are better suited for objects I will not make multiple copies of, but wall cutter does not like groups, and I cannot control scale handle visibility on groups for faster work operations.In this sketchup video tutorial, Justin Geis demonstrates the functionality of a useful sketchup plugin called FlexTools that can be used for generating dynamic components inside sketchup. But there is a lot of right clicking to make unique that I would have to do for the rest of my life… The easy way would be to use a readymade stud work component and just cover each wall with a readymade wallboard component, scaling each to fit their place. So lets say I want to model an interior with inner walls, with one component for the stud work (just a box), and one component on each side of that, to show wall board thickness.

One component chunk of wall cannot be copied elsewhere, scaled and re-used, because the wall cutter hole will show up in the copy as well, and you end up with lots of door openings you don’t want… My problem is every component then has to be unique. Flextools wants you to place its dynamic components onto the components, not inside them, and then it can work its magic of cutting through multi- layered walls, with each layer a solid component, and automatically refresh those cuts if I move my window or door. I´m testing the Flextools for placement of windows and doors.

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