Hello everyone,
To expand wide possibilities of Robot Structural Filters I've made small AddIn. This tool help you to select Bars and Panels by their orientation - along planes and axes of global coordanate system.
You can preview tool fuctionality by following link: http://youtu.be/TF86AzZokEA
It was compiled only as DLL, so please read Installation.pdf for instructions.
As always - feel free to use, comment and modification!
Good idea!!!!
I suggest " by vector" being clickable , similar to Results/maps/automatic/cartesian/according to vector Vector 1,0,0 works .
Vector 2,0,0 ,which is the same direction , doesn´t work.
If "by vector" remains unclickable , at least it should allow any values in the XYZ vector as an easy way to discover what vector you want is using the translation tool window. Anyway , congrats!!! Great tool!!!
Rafael Medeiros
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Hi, Rafacascudo
Thanks for your reply and suggestion - I think I will modify AddIn soon to add functionality to select objects parallel to vector with any length.
Right now it was designed to use vector with length = 1
So, please, wait for update!
Hello everybody,
By Rafacascudo's requets I've updated this Add-in.
You can preview the result of this update by follow link: http://youtu.be/Om62FvQiTD0
Enjoy!
Rafael Medeiros
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Great job - thanks!!!
BTW
Is it possible to modify a little this great tool - actually I have to correct in tolerance for selection dot to comma.
Coordinates reads correctly as commas but tolerance use dot and without change to comma there is a message: "Error - Please, check input values".
Jerzy
Rafacascudo, you are welcome
legar, no problems - I've made such modification, please, download updated version from this post.
Also for users without admin rights I've made "portable", EXE-version of this AddIn. However, I can't recommend use it because the performance of this version is unsatisfactory. Use DLL-version if you can - it's much faster.
Enjoy!
Hi igos,
Your add-in is very nice and useful. However, it is too slow with a small model. I have checked it out on my model with 184 members, it took me about 7 to 10sec to find members parallel to Z.
If it is a big model, I have to wait for so long to get answer. I have found the reason for this issue. Your code has so many calculations in FOR statements.
Can you make it faster?
Dear NguyenTTU, thank you for your reply!
Yes, I know that there are a lot of loops for each element in model, but I can's see another way to get information about geometry of elements. The main reason of slow performance is that you use EXE version of add-in.
Try to install DLL version and it will much faster. I hope that it will help you!
I've built the source and now trying to add the dll file through the menu Add-Ins->Add-Ins Manager->Browse to the GeomFilter.dll... but it doesn't get added to the installed add-ins...
How should it get addded?
What is the reason for the DLL being much faster than the EXE?
Thank you so much for this great work!