Hi all,

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

http://www.traksys.freeuk.com/3DCplugins.zip

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,

I tried to download this file, but I got a "file not found" error.

Richard

Sorry...

that should have been:

(Modified direct URL, 6th Feb 2003)

http://www.traksys.freeuk.com/3DCPlugins6.zip

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.  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,
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)  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.

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

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

[quote author=pwillard link=board=3DCanvasProScripting;num=1043414958;start=0#7 date=02/01/03 at 10:32:31]Ideas?


1 - Handrails (Length, Diameter) 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.[/quote]

Take a look at
http://home.attbi.com/~deanville/3DCanvas/elbow.zip

It lets you "extrude" 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:

http://www.highworth.freeuk.com/

Thanks, ianm42.

One for Pete... Straight handrail builder

You select a face, enter lengths, diameters and number of staunchions...

Still yet to store settings and adjust object to match the face normal - should save me about an hour per MSTS model.

The latest plugins for 5.7 and 6.0, new help text and a few small updates to older ones have been consolidated and uploaded to UKtrainsim today.

They should make it onto my Highworth web site by sometime this evening GMT

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...