Plugins for V6.0

Only one person noticed that a couple of the plugins for V6.0 didn’t appear on the menu (Buffers and handrails)

I will be uploading a fix over the weekend…

Sorry…

that should have been:

(Modified direct URL, 6th Feb 2003)

[img:hqdcqs6k]http://www.traksys.freeuk.com/3DCPlugins6.zip[/img:hqdcqs6k]
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Paul,

The help file doesn’t cover a few of the plug-ins. I know you have told me about them, but I forget now. andnbsp;Could you clarify these:

DoubleSide: ?
Flare: Extrude with flare option?
FSplit: Splits off the faces selected into new object?
ShowUntextured: I can guess, but…
SwapTextures: Replaces occurances of one texture with another?

Thanks,

Richard

Double Side – builds reverse faces for all selected faces or whole object.

flare – multiple extrudes following curve

FSplit – puts selected faces into a child group without altering textures

ShowUntextured – Shows list of group/object and number of faces untextured.

SwapTexture – lets you substitute a new file for any of the currently used textures in the selected hierarchy

Regards

Paul

Hi Paul,

I tried to download this file, but I got a andquot;file not foundandquot; error.

Richard

Hi all,

10 of my plugins (including the latest set) are available for V6.0 at:

[img:fc9k3dxr]http&#58;//www&#46;traksys&#46;freeuk&#46;com/3DCplugins&#46;zip[/img:fc9k3dxr]
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The MSTS Engineer, and others, have been updated to accept european formatted numbers (using , as decimal)

There is one small known bug with this version – you cannot enter negative feet values – fix coming soon.

Place all files into the plugins directory – if you already have Wheelz6.DLL or Rodz6.DLL already – delete these, the new ones are MSTSWheelz6.DLL and MSTSRodz6.DLL to be a bit more consistent.

Regards

Paul

Hi Paul,
Just wanted to thank you for sharing your pluggins.They sure make tasks a lot easier to get accomplished.

Mike

Thanks Mike,

If you or anyone has any more ideas for plugins, let me know, I’m always on the lookout for ideas – look for repetitive things you do or processes that take a while to do, but are repeatable, or complex processes that a computer could calculate for you.

regards

Paul

Ideas?

1 – Handrails (Length, Diameter) andnbsp;with a simple elbow (Bend Radius) creator. Combine plugin steps to do complex handrails? (Good for pipng to?)

2 – Handrail Stanchions (place ‘N’ handrail stanchions ‘D’ distance apart along the Z axis.

Hi PaulGausden- went to download the plugins for 3DC-6 and got a 404 error. Did you change it?
andnbsp;KB

Take a look at
[img:ovd6m5ux]http&#58;//home&#46;attbi&#46;com/~deanville/3DC/elbow&#46;zip[/img:ovd6m5ux]
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It lets you andquot;extrudeandquot; a face into elbows of settable radii and arc. Combining this with a normal extrude lets me build fairly complex handrails and piping. It’s been reported that it doesn’t work with 6.0, I don’t have 6.0 pro yet so I can’t verify or test.

I’ve worked with it in 6.0 so far no problems.

Paul’s plugins are also available here:

[img:33e0o171]http&#58;//www&#46;highworth&#46;freeuk&#46;com/[/img:33e0o171]
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Thanks, ianm42.

Just a quick thanks for these plugins – they are very useful.