January 15, 2008 at 5:32 am /
#949
Track motion is incredibly difficult to achieve. you need to think about all the pivot points, rotational and translational animations of every link.
Good luck.
January 15, 2008 at 5:32 am /
#10909
A new plugin…
Select one or more faces, enter a few dimensions and number of sides (10 in this case)
[img:31eeop20]http://wwwnew.atomic-album.com/showPic.php/22531/riv1.jpg[/img:31eeop20]
Gives 210 polys.
Each rivet is a cone, equidistant from the 2 nearest edges (but distance could vary from each point if the angle between edges changes)
[b:31eeop20]Also with added nuts![/b:31eeop20]
Here is another option – I ran the same plugin 3 times here, just altering the number of facets and the height and width…
[img:31eeop20]http://wwwnew.atomic-album.com/showPic.php/22531/riv2.jpg[/img:31eeop20]
The DLL is below, but currently only for 7.1.1.3
7.1.1.2 will follow when I get home tonight.
January 15, 2008 at 10:51 am /
#10910
It looks good.
I’ll try it in a few days for the buffer nuts.
Next step: build a steam loco in one click? <!– s:) –><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_e_smile.gif" alt="
" title="Smile" /><!– s:) –>
February 5, 2008 at 2:41 pm /
#10911
Hello,
I just tried it.
It doesn’t work on a face from an extruded object (green area on the image).
[img:2kf7514k]http://img216.imageshack.us/my.php?image=image2bg6.jpg[/img:2kf7514k]
[img:2kf7514k]http://img216.imageshack.us/img216/2049/image2bg6.th.jpg[/img:2kf7514k]
So I built a cube of the same size and use one of the cube face.
The input window says ‘Diameter’: it’s the radius actually.
February 10, 2008 at 1:08 pm /
#10912
The plugin is also working on electric engine. <!– s:) –><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_e_smile.gif" alt="" title="Smile" /><!– s:) –>
[img:1wtt5aw3]http://img219.imageshack.us/my.php?image=image18yy1.jpg[/img:1wtt5aw3]
[img:1wtt5aw3]http://img219.imageshack.us/img219/9656/image18yy1.th.jpg[/img:1wtt5aw3]
February 11, 2008 at 4:19 pm /
#10913
This plugin ROCKS! I love it! Thanks so much!
February 12, 2008 at 6:35 am /
#10914
Yuck, I spoke too soon.
It seems that my nuts do not survive a save and reload of the 3DC file. They show up in the heirarchy but not on the model shape any longer.
Here is what I did. I created an AXLE for roller bearing trucks. Cylinder 2.179 0.200 0.200 (So it was small diameter) I places .03 size nuts in the end caps. (It made too many, so I deleted every other nut) Looked great as a result.
But when I reloaded the model after a save… they were visibly missing.
February 12, 2008 at 1:16 pm /
#10915
This was a small bug which I thought I had fixed for the 7.1.2 version.
You need to do something to the objects created before they are saved.
e.g. apply a texture to all of them
This will ‘fix’ them in 3DC.
February 12, 2008 at 5:33 pm /
#10916
I can live with a work around
thanks
March 10, 2008 at 10:46 am /
#10917
Rivits and Nuts Fixed (I hope) for Version 7.1.2
March 13, 2008 at 8:04 pm /
#10918
Yay! It works as expected now!
December 6, 2008 at 12:13 pm /
#10919
Hi, Can anyone help me get rivit and stairmaker to work with Vista 64? I have tried everything in the forums to get 3dc to reconize the dlls. So far. Thanks, Red Bear
December 6, 2008 at 2:55 pm /
#10920
Can you check to see exactly which version of 3DC you have installed (Help/About menu option)
December 6, 2008 at 3:19 pm /
#10921
I’ve got 7.1.1.2.. Can’t find 7.1.1.3 to download.
December 7, 2008 at 1:23 am /
#10922
Hi Red Bear,
You need 7.1.2.0 <!– s:) –><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_e_smile.gif" alt="" title="Smile" /><!– s:) –>
[img:1o1u3guq]http://amabilis.com/forumattachments/a/tpc/f/5496093974/m/15410119341[/img:1o1u3guq]
<!– m –><a class="postlink" href="http://amabilis.com/forumattachments…093974/m/15410119341">http://amabilis.com/forumattachments… … 5410119341</a><!– m –>
has a link to download it.
This should make all of my extra plugins work for you.
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