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Sketchup plugin

2007-05-18T22:52:46+01:00

LOL dont know what just happened but if we can have that instead of the motion editor that would be awesome...

simply great work...

Statistics: Posted by Toughbeard — Fri May 18, 2007 10:52 pm

Sketchup plugin

2007-05-18T18:58:03+01:00

That is awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Statistics: Posted by Pev — Fri May 18, 2007 6:58 pm

Sketchup plugin

2007-05-18T15:37:22+01:00

Ok. Embedded the video.

Sketchup has a Ruby plugin interface. Using the WIN32API module you can call out to a DLL. I added a start and stop button. When you hit start it connects to the robot and sets up a frame callback. Each frame it just goes and asks the DLL for the servo positions.

The tricky part is that Sketchup doesn't support rigging. It has a concept of hierarchy via components and that's what I ended up using to fake it.

Statistics: Posted by billyzelsnack — Fri May 18, 2007 3:37 pm

Sketchup plugin

2007-05-18T15:24:03+01:00

WOW!
how does this work exactly?

(you can just copy-paste the "Embed" line on the youtube page)

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Statistics: Posted by limor — Fri May 18, 2007 3:24 pm

Sketchup plugin

2007-05-18T15:32:42+01:00

I wrote a plugin for Sketchup. Here's a video of it in action..

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I'm using the models Jon converted to DWG.

I'm not sure how far I am going to take this, but I've been wanting to mess around with the Sketchup API and this was a nice small project to experiment with.

Statistics: Posted by billyzelsnack — Fri May 18, 2007 3:15 pm